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Food and wine
Stimulate your career juices at the Good Food & Wine Show
2 July 2009
If you are fascinated by all things gastronomic, have been breathlessly following the trials and travails of the contest...
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COAG: Retraining for the retrenched and improved conditions for foreign students
2 July 2009
All workers retrenched during the economic downturn will now be eligible for government-subsidised training, under an ag...
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Working two jobs
23 June 2009
For the majority of people, a typical nine-to-five work day is more than enough before hitting the couch and retiring in...
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Financial career survival guide
12 June 2009
The global financial crisis has affected nearly every industry, but few areas have been hit as hard as the banking and f...
Finance and banking bright spots amid the doom and gloom
9 June 2009
The banking and finance industries have been amongst the hardest hit during the current global financial crisis. Thousan...
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Earn or learn
26 May 2009
With youth unemployment rising, federal and state governments have joined forces to guarantee a place in study or traini...
Warehouseing training
Adopt a School Program
22 May 2009
Australian schools are being adopted by an unlikely parent. Not by Madonna or Brangelina, but by the Transport and Logis...
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Michael Jackson – A career to remember
30 June 2009
It’s not often that a single person can transform an entire industry and alter history. Elvis did it, Tiger Woods did it...
Time for grads to reassess priorities as hot jobs go cold
16 June 2009
With the recession affecting nearly every sector and formerly hot industries like mining, accounting and finance cooling...
Confused about the job market
Job market may not be so dire after all
12 June 2009
The news has just hit that Australia’s unemployment rate has reached 5.7 per cent. This figure is expected to climb furt...
Going green office
Building and construction industry going green
27 May 2009
The building and construction industry is undergoing a green makeover which is simultaneously creating jobs and fighting...
Nicki Bloom
Nicki Bloom wins 2008 Patrick White Playwrights’ Award
26 May 2009
Nicki Bloom, playwright and Artistic Director of production company nowyesnow, is the 2008 recipient of the prestigious ...
Digital media jobs
Digital media jobs
21 May 2009
When it comes to careers in digital media, there are exciting jobs that simply didn’t exist two decades – or even two ye...
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Wacky Facts
Female teachers in Australia were required by law to quit their jobs when they got married up until the 1960s. The reasoning was that men were the breadwinners and married women were seen to be ‘stealing their jobs’.
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