As you will know, one of the aims of HR Club Sydney is help share knowledge and insight into what is best practice in HR, so that as a group we can lift the profession by not all reinventing the wheel in our respective companies. I have had a few questions about employee benefits programmes recently so I thought it might be worthwhile running a short survey which...

So last week was a busy one with the AHRI National Convention on, and with my last post being about making some time for networking you might be wondering how I went. Even though I could only pop along to one of the convention days, I met so many other people along the way- it was great! At the Welcome Reception I caught up with Damon Klotz where we met up with some...

I feel like I am learning a lot about gender at work at the moment. I mentioned after International Women’s Day that I wasn’t entirely comfortable with the message that we were sending to young women that: you might think you’re equal – but mate you’re not, you earn less; you earn less per hour; you earn less over your lifetime; you do a heap of...

Those who have worked with me, or know me, know that I really like stationery. When other kids in my family were getting scooters and pop corn makers for Christmas- I was unwrapping a laminator or a labeler.  When I was in primary school I was going to be a Journalist so my Mum bought me a type writer and a dictaphone. Yes, I have always been a nerd and my Mum has...

A few friends of mine have recently been made redundant and the company has handled it extremely poorly. One dragged them into a room at 5pm on a Friday and told them the reason they were hired was no longer relevant and that they should consider this their 4 weeks notice. No letters or anything. They were shocked and confused as to whether they were fired or made...