Hey there! Apologies for the hiatus. The last few weeks have been busy and full of awesome. You may have noticed I’ve just taken up a contract at Lion Nathan National Foods and I am having the best time working there. I intend to chat a bit about why it is so awesome a bit later, but it is fitting that today’s post is about ‘Dream Employers’. A little while...

I get asked quite a few questions from the HR Community and sometimes it’s hard. I feel like a bit of an impostor, like I should know all the answers, but in reality I’m not an experienced HR professional. I have so much to learn from so many of you and it’s something I’m acutely aware of. I’m still fumbling through the early stages of...

So today is R U OK? Day and hopefully by now you’ve heard all about it (for more info visit their website). Some facts about suicide: Suicide claims more lives in Australia each year than our national road toll. More than 2,200 Australians take their own lives every year (ABS data). It is the biggest killer of men and women between 15 and 35. And for every...

Recently I was reading an article in the Harvard Business Review called “The Early Bird Really Does Get the Worm” in their ‘Defend your Research’ section. The Professor who was up was Biologist Christoph Randler (also see Why morning people rule the world) from Germany, whose research suggests that “people whose performance peaks in the morning are...

A few weeks ago, I posted a link via my LinkedIn page about R U OK? Day and the response from people was that they wanted to get involved and just hadn’t heard about it before. Working in the legal industry myself, its particularly important with a report from the Brain & Mind Research Institute, ‘Courting the Blues’ stating that mental illness is of...