The good folk at Red Balloon have contacted me online about participating  in a survey for them. I’m always keen to hear the results of interesting surveys so of course I participated- and I thought it was worthy of sharing with you all if you’re interested. So Red Balloon have partnered with Insync Surveys to release the Dream Employers Survey, an...

Today we have a guest post from JoelyRighteous (my better half) who works in the media industry. If nothing else, this post shows he has been listening to all the HR crap I talk about when I get home. Alternatively, it does also illustrate again that people are just not going to hang around and put up with sub-par work environments that are disengaging. It seems to...

Last week I attended the HR Summit which with the public holiday made it an extraordinarily short week for me being in a new role. In any case, I did want to share a few gems with everyone who perhaps couldn’t attend. The HR Summit claims to be Australasia’s leading event for the HR industry. It was spread across two days, and was located at the fantastic...

For those of you who might not know (get on LinkedIn already!), I’ve just started a new job in a law firm in Sydney, and yes it is a big change. I’ve worked at Sara Lee, then Vodafone, BOC and most recently CSIRO- and the cultures couldn’t be more different. Sara Lee (and yes we did eat cakes while we were there) was relatively young and passionate...