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Are you wondering why it’s so critical to always be employable? The media wanted to know and has shown amazing interest in Rox and Employable.

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In The Media

Are you wondering why it’s so critical to always be employable? The media wanted to know and has shown amazing interest in Rox and Employable.

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Rise of the 'Golden Gap' year

Today Show

Is a ‘golden gap’ year on the horizon for you?

Rox joined Karl and Sarah on Nine‘s TODAY Show to share her insights on the pros and cons of a sabbatical!

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Personality Hires

Today Show

Did you know ‘Personality Hires’ are a thing? Nine’s TODAY invited Rox to their show to give her expert advice on this ‘new’ trend.

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The 'Right to Disconnect' law

Sky News

Sky News invited Rox to their show to give her expert advice on the ‘Right to Disconnect’ law.

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Workplace Trends for 2024

TODAY show

TODAY invited Rox to their show to give her expert advice on the workplace trends for 2024.

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How to get a Pay Rise

Today Extra

Are you really wanting to get that pay rise?  TODAY Extra invited Rox to their show to give her expert advice on exactly how to ask for a pay rise, or getting other benefits that can be negotiated in your employment package.

Watch the full interview now!

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Harvard Business Review

A 100-day plan for your first job out of college

You studied and worked hard, got your degree, and secured a full-time job. Congratulations! You’re onto the next stage of adulthood: building your career. But where do you even begin…

 
Harvard Business Review

What college students need to succeed in the corporate world

To be employable these days, your degree alone won’t cut it. For entry-level roles, employers are looking to see how easily you can transition from school…
Forbes

5 Keys to finding the right next job for you

In my business executive roles and mentoring experience, I have found many business professionals in the wrong roles, and/or very unhappy with their current positions…
7 News

Alarming numbers of Gen Z workers being fired over behavioural habits

Gen Z beware: a new workplace trend has emerged and it could cost you your job…
Sydney Morning Herald

An insiders guide on the best ways to impress a recruiter

There are 3.5 million recruiters globally and growing, and in tech alone, more than 90% of companies use recruitment agencies…

Fast Company

How to make office gossip your ally

Roxanne Calder notes that at its core, gossip is an informal way of sharing information and a platform for employees to feel listened to and heard…
Harvard Business Review

5 Ways to Figure Out If a Job Is Right for You

In a recent survey of 2,500 millennial and Generation Z applicants, 72% of respondents were surprised or regretted accepting a role because the position…
CEO Magazine
Why is our workforce so demotivated? Every executive knows the value of active employee contribution. Well-functioning employees drive purpose and contribute exponentially to the bottom line...
CEO Magazine
Why switching off is key to boosting your productivity We are always on. In today’s digital everything world, is there ever a time we are not reachable? In the morning, is the phone the recipient of your first physical contact and engagement...
The New York Post

Here’s a new reason why ‘fragile’ Gen Zers are quitting their jobs

Gen Zers are quitting jobs not just because of salaries or flexibility, but also because they don’t feel up to the task...
news.com.au
Captive billionaires plan for aussie workers Generation Z has moved on from quiet quitting and now young workers are wholeheartedly embracing just quitting their jobs...
news.com.au
Captive billionaires plan for aussie workers Billionaire mining boss Chris Ellison has declared he doesn’t want his workers going on coffee breaks, as he “wants to hold them captive all day long” to improve output...
news.com.au
Photo reveals our attitude towards work in 2024 A photo of four workers sleeping at their desks has exposed huge differences in our attitudes towards work...
news.com.au
Why bosses want workers back in the office Hated every aspect: 23-year-old says she is done working 9-5...
The Project
Gen Z and Baby Boomers clash over how many minutes it takes to be late to work Gen Z has been at the forefront of transforming work ‘hustle’ culture, attitudes and perception of how much work should take over your life...
The New York Post
Boss fires Gen Z employee of this common work habit Generation Z may have only been in the workforce for a short time, but they have already made a huge impact on the landscape...
news.com.au
Bad Gen Z work habit that baby boomers can't stand It appears that Gen Z workers have developed a bad office habit, and it is something that their Baby Boomer bosses have “zero tolerance” for...
CEO Magazine
The dark side of perks and benefits 'What are the perks and benefits?' When I hear this in an interview, which I often do, the hackles on my back go up. Alarm bells ring, potential trouble on the horizon...
Leaderonomics
Are your employees deserving or entitled? Entitlement has always been a part of our workforce, to some degree. We value and encourage individuality, so what may have been hidden before has simply become more visible...
Managers & Leaders
Why is the skills shortage still so concerning in 2024? Coming out of the pandemic, our skills shortage has been one of the most heavily discussed, debated, and strategised topics. It appeared seemingly out of nowhere...
SHE DEFINED
Tips to secure a pay rise ahead of a performance review Annual performance reviews are about to occur in many organisations. If a pay rise is top of mind, it is inevitably a delicate discussion...
No Jitter
Hybrid out-of-office work has its downsides; let's talk about them The employee experience for hybrid and remote workers is not always going to be the most engaging or productive...
Fast Company
Hybrid work need a performance review Hybrid work is here to stay. It has to. For a start, it was here well before COVID-19, with 7% of us working from home...
FMCG Business
Why is the skills shortage still so concerning in 2024? Coming our of the pandemic, our skills shortage has been one of the most heavily discussed, debated, and strategised topics. It appeared seemingly out of nowhere...
CEO Magazine
How to approach pay transparency in the workplace In the late 2000s, demand heightened for a more transparent, genuine and accountable approach to leadership, otherwise known as authentic leadership theory...
news.com.au
'Entitled behaviour': Growing Gen Z work trend leaving bosses fed up A new trend is sweeping Aussie workplaces and one boss has claimed it’s proof of Gen Z’s “entitlement” and shows they want everything “now”...
Today Show
Who was the best 'personality hire' out of the Today team? Every workplace has an array of characters who bring an assortment of different traits and abilities to the table. But while some people are genuinely hard workers when it comes to their job, there are others who clearly seem to be hired solely for their personality...
Switzer Daily
Young people in the workplace are surprising recruiters and employers Please don’t shoot the messenger but the recruitment industry say Gen Z young people are reportedly asking for big pay rises and when do they want them? Now, or they are “out of here"...
CEO Magazine
Recruitment expert on what to do if you make the wrong hire? The search for talent has become a hen’s teeth exercise. The process is exhausting and costly. Is it any wonder our hopes run high when presented with a slither of skills and a thimble of talent...
The New York Post
Gen Z wants to quit their jobs - I gained 200K views teaching them how to do it “What would it take for you to quit your job?” The answer for Generation Z is not that much. Aussie creator Hannah Elliot, 26, has amassed over 200K views by telling fellow young people to quit their jobs... ..
news.com.au
'Have lost count': Young Aussie revels Gen Z quitting trend A young woman’s rant has exposed the wild reasons so many Gen Zers are quitting their jobs and why it is quickly becoming an Aussie trend...
CEO Magazine
Why loyalty now means more at work - and how to get it Loyalty is the fly-under-the-radar virtue and is frequently usurped for its more glamourous comraderies like generosity, fairness, or the new kid on the block – resilience...
Fast Company
Are your employees deserving or entitled? Entitlement has always been a part of our workforce to some degree. We value and encourage individuality, so what may have been hidden before has simply become more visible...
HR Leader
What the 2024 recruitment outlook looks like for leaders Recruitment-wise, the last four years have been a rollercoaster of extraordinary change, some shocking twists, and even surprises on the human behaviour front...
Fast Company
7 phrases that make you sound inauthentic and cringeworthy With the emphasis on flexible work and our increasingly isolated workforce, connection has never been more important...
CEO Magazine
Why employee loyalty is the new black Shūshin koyō: the Japanese term for lifetime employment. With strong links to company pride, security, family, and loyalty, it is a legacy of the post-war era...
Money Magazine
5 ways to future proof your job This is the year for the job seeker. With global record low unemployment rates and the dearth supply of talent, never have your transferable skills been so highly coveted...
CEO Magazine
How leaders can foster a culture that promotes greater loyalty Employee loyalty is as valuable and sought after as skills and experience. Reliable, dependable, tried and tested, no executive can deny the depth of appreciation held for loyal employees...
Inside Small Business
The rise of the workplace victim and how to deal with them At times we all carry the victim persona. When our emotional and or psychological needs are not met, victimhood takes a seat. It’s healthy to play the victim role occasionally...
HR Leader
Is workplace flexibility what it seems? Yet, head in the sand and to appease the organisational ego, we labelled it as “entitled”. But we all wanted it. Even the chief executives and leaders mandating the current call back to the office yearned for some stretch and freedom...
Inside Small Business
Care to keep them happy. How to ensure your business doesn't experience another great resignation. The great resignation was a monumental disruption. An employee revolving door and the consequent, relentless search for talent left many of your hiring managers stressed...
Business Sale
How to achieve greater employee buy-in when growing your business If growing your business right now, my guess is staffing issues are delivering you a world of pain. Time and our precious human resources are in scarce supply...
Kochie's Business Builders
Full head count but still a skills gap? Here’s why The global skills shortage continues. The war for talent, great resignation and great reshuffle are phrases we are more than familiar with...
New Idea
Switch things up. How to land a new job at any age   Roxanne Calder explains a self-assessment will determine your wants, needs, skills, experience and qualifications when choosing a new career. This will also help you decide if you need to upskill...
Flying Solo
How to embrace your AI colleagues The fifth industrial revolution is well under way, with our relationship to machines and artificial intelligence growing with every passing day. To evolve, business leaders...
Leaderonomics
Nurturing human assets in the hybrid era: Retaining talent for success   Staff retention is a perennial concern, no matter the industry or economic climate. It is business critical and a non-negotiable for performance...
CEO Magazine
How to achieve greater employee buy-in when growing your business   If growing your business right now, my guess is staffing issues are delivering you a world of pain. Time and our precious human resources are in scarce supply. Every organisation is deprived of talent...
The New York Post
Millennials and Gen Z reveal the rouge work habits of Boomers   Young workers are constantly being called out for the way they work, but what about the older generation? With the cultural focus on how Gen Zers and Millennials have changed the way we work...
She Defined
Why switching off from work is key to boosting your productivity Taking the time to ‘switch off’ is critical to work performance and in being better humans for ourselves and those around us...
Kochie's Business Builders

Hiring gone wrong: Here’s how to make it right!

The search for talent has become a hen’s teeth exercise. The process...
Yahoo! Finance
Top 5 'must ask' questions in your next job interview When were redundancies last made? Is there job security? These are important questions to ask. Here's why...  
Herald Sun
Thanks, job well done Employers are giving workers extra duties but the reard is not always commensurate. Talent shortages are forcing Aussies to take on greater responsibility at work...
HR Leader
Top recruitment trends of 2023
HR Leader
Adopting new techniques to navigate a tight labour market The talent market remains tight well into 2023. Businesses may benefit by adopting some new recruitment techniques...
Kochie's Business Builders
A recruiter insider’s guide on how to nab the best talent Recruitment has never been tougher. As a recruiter of more than two decades, I have experienced many employment cycles, with this the hardest...
She Defined
Is 2023 the year of the career reset? The pandemic turned the world on its head. Then, still reeling in a state of shock and uncertainty, it presented us with gifts. Like your cat with the proverbial mouse proudly displayed...
HCA Magazine
How to stop employees from quitting Australian employers need to be worried. Despite a slowing economy and global uncertainty around the Russian-Ukraine war and a cold war escalating between China and America...
In The Black

Tips for the first 100 days in a new job

Navigating new job jitters in today’s landscape is a whole new ball game. With upskilling and reskilling, tech-savvy onboarding...
Inside Small Business
Top tips to ensure your SME doesn’t experience another great resignation in 2023 The severity of the skills shortage saw 46 per cent of small and 40 per cent of medium businesses with...
HCA Magazine

Best practices for saying goodbye

When an employee announces they are leaving an organisation, there are two big questions: Should you let them leave immediately so there is no opportunity for negativity around..
Kochie's Business Builders

Skills shortages: 5 tips to help your business now

The global skills shortage has been well touted. As a managing director of a recruitment firm, I too, am one of these criers, proclaiming and announcing publicly and consistently...
Inside Retail
The real reason people are returning to the office It is instinctive. Aware or not, somehow, we know it is good for us. As humans we are hard wired for survival. The fight or flight response...
Kochie's Business Builders

Why hiring in December is the smartest move you will make this year

Timing is why hiring in December will be this year’s checkmate move. As a managing director of a recruitment firm, it’s my job to know the...
CEOWorld Magazine
Old School Making a Comeback I am proudly old school, and not alone. There are many more of us out there. Underground, we have become the alternative subculture. Not to defy change but preserve what we know works...
Inside Retail
What you need for an edge in recruitment in 2023 Recruitment in 2023 will continue to test us. If we have gleaned anything from the pandemic...
PS News
Personal brand: How to cultivate a great one At first, personal branding emerged as a means of attaining career success in the context of more temporary employment systems and project-based...
HCA Magazine

Is your job application process putting off talent?

If your company requires job seekers to spend an entire afternoon wrestling with the application process, you are losing out on prospective...
CEOWorld Magazine
5 tips for mums returning to the workforce Being a mother and parent is one of the most important jobs in the world. Motherhood also transforms many women into better leaders, otherwise known as ‘power moms’...
The CEO Instituit
What the 2023 Recruitment Outlook Looks Like Recruitment in 2023 will continue to test us. If we garnished anything from the pandemic, it is just how unpredictable the world is and how swiftly we must adjust and embrace change...
Inside Small Business
Five hiring mistakes to avoid in a post-pandemic market For most businesses post-pandemic, recruitment is a formidable challenge. But there is the prolonged and eminently hard-to-avoid cost of an empty seat...
IgniteGlobal

How to beat skills shortage

Regular check-ins with workers are the key to unlocking their hidden talents, but also to making sure they are happy and not planning to leave. We call it human capital because people are assets...
Woman's Day
How to ask for a pay rise If negotiating a wage increase has you in a sweat, here's the right way to do it. While the cost of living has recently skyrocketed, the average wage has failed to keep...
CEOWorld Magazine
Why it’s time we take an honest look at wellbeing As a professional recruiter, I interview 100’s of job seekers, and the pursuit of well-being and balance is top of their list. Everyone wants it...
Kochie's Business Builders
Is social awkwardness the downfall of remote work? The hybrid office comes at a heavy price, argues top recruiter Roxanne Calder, founder and managing director of EST10...
She Defined
Things to consider when asking for a pay rise amid soaring inflation As with any supply and demand equation, supply shortages equate to price increases. Translate that to the employment landscape, and higher salaries...
News.com.au
Skill shortages forcing wages to rise You’ll always have inflation, but what we’ve gone through in the past two to three years is quite extraordinary. In the first instance, when the pandemic started, real wages fell an average of 2.1 per cent...
HCA Magazine
Why 55 is the new mid-career: tapping into the mature workforce The mid-career candidate has always been highly sought after. The truffle of all employees. Whether in a tight or surplus market, they are the 'it'...
Inside Small Business
Why SMEs should never underestimate the value of a good admin support If your business is suffering from a lack of skilled workers, you are not alone. It is a pandemic, an arterial gift from COVID-19...
HR Leader
When every employer wants you, how do you choose where to work? There are an abundance of job choices, opportunities aplenty, and career aspirations to be realised. Great, you might think. The lure of increased salaries...
News.com.au
How to ask for an inflation pay rise With a rising cost of living and wages that aren’t keeping up, people are using a labour shortage to help make their case for inflation pay rises. It’s basically asking for a pay rise based purely...
Kochie's Business Builders

Bring your authentic self to your business – just don’t be too authentic!

Authenticity. It is the watchword, and of course, everyone wants it! The proliferation in nearly all current leadership articles makes it seem the...
In The Black
Tips for choosing between multiple job offers Many job seekers are well acquainted with the daunting process of drafting exhaustive lists of pros and cons when presented with more than one job offer...
CEOWorld Magazine
Why self-awareness is your best friend & 4 tips to get better at it Self-awareness. It is a superpower. If you think you have it covered, think again. In a five-year self-awareness study, it was discovered that...
Money and Life
Bridging the talent gap It’s a war for talent, particularly in the financial planning sector. The continual tightening and squeeze of the candidate pool is and will significantly impact the future success of advice businesses. In bridging...
The Daily Telegraph
Five warning signs a job offer is not what it seems The Australian job market is bursting with opportunities. Job vacancies are at record-breaking highs and with the unemployment rate at 3.9 per cent, described as close to full employment, it is a jobseekers' market...
The CEO Magazine
How to leverage your existing employees to bridge the talent gap The other pandemic. This is no ordinary fight for talent. It is rough, unscrupulous, disruptive and breathtaking in its enormity. It is also global. 75 per cent of Australia’s CEOs are concerned about the availability...
International Institute of Directors and Managers

Why Flexibility Is The New Entitlement

Flexibility at work is no longer a perk or a privilege, and don’t even think about calling it a benefit. It is now a right. If you wonder how flexibility...
Women's Agenda

How the Great Resignation is driving a candidate revolution

Anyone recruiting in today’s job market knows it unlike anything experienced before. Record low unemployment rates has equated to a near zero candidate pool to source from...
Managers and Leaders
Why 55 is the new mid-career – tapping into the mature workforce Looking for talent? Our ‘go-to’ reflex is the mid-career candidate. Why wouldn’t it be? Mid-career employees are rich with experience, and their soft skills finely tuned. Smart move. Unless your...
CEOWorld Magazine
The good and the bad of headhunting We refer to it as headhunting to add mystique and enchantment, but it really is executive search. Traditionally and in days prior to the excruciating boa constricting squeeze for talent, the big names (or heads), heavy hitters of industry were headhunted...
The CEO Magazine

Employment expert’s secret to successful remote recruitment

The pandemic had us all doing acrobatic feats. The swift summersault to remote working for most of us meant working from home. The commonly held assumption was that we’d soon...
The Latch
How to negotiate your salary for a new job Negotiating your salary is the Everest of workplace challenges. You might be the supreme negotiator for deals and contracts and even advocate for others, but when it comes to championing ourselves, very few of...
Daily Mail
Five most career and reputation damaging mistakes Aussies make at work Thanks to the great resignation it's currently a job hunters market, but just because the tables have turned doesn't mean that you can up and leave your job at a moment's notice...
news.com.au
Six signs your boss is a true narcissist What we might find hard to accept is narcissism can be a healthy personality trait if mild and occasional. Freud recognised we are all somewhat narcissistic. In fact, in times of great transition, such as the pandemic, productive narcissists are useful and even necessary...
CEO Magazine

Jobs that will likely disappear in the next five years

In fact, they already have. Jobs were lost and the industries decimated. Job losses were instantaneous and remote work wasn’t an option. For those who lost their jobs, the pivot to other industries had to happen. The pain from the workforce dislocation...
Inside Small Business
The Reality of Hiring in 2022 - Increasing Salaries and a Talent Shortage Two issues are occurring concurrently, inflation and fierce competition. Existential costs are hard to ignore. The Consumer Price Index (CPI) rose 3.5 per cent over 12 months to the December 2021 quarter, and November 2021 reflected a seven-year high...
SmartCompany
Has the ‘Great Resignation’ actually happened in Australia? Let’s look at the evidence The essence of the ‘Great Resignation’ is that through pandemic epiphanies, there is a significant upswing of people quitting their jobs, whether exiting the workforce altogether, early retirement, sabbaticals, or just simply seeking a change...
Q Magazine

Five Career Damaging Moves and How to Avoid Them

For some, careers seem to naturally take off, magical and blessed. Opportunity and luck were on their side. Or so it seems. What appears like good luck or right place, right time is more like consistently good decision making...
Human Resources Director

This is how much it really costs to hire a new employee

The pandemic accelerated the trend, so we felt more acutely what was already well in motion. There is no one actual cause but a myriad of influences; an ageing population exiting our workforce, reduced birth rates and economic...
CPA Australia

Ageism in the workplace overlooks experienced employees

Sometimes people in this demographic who are job seekers do themselves a disservice, because they carry ‘baggage’ into the interview. They take on the persona that they are older, or not as quick as younger people...
Human Resources Director

The secrecy around salaries: How to address pay transparency

Secrecy clauses in employment contracts are banned in the US and the UK in an attempt to decrease discrimination and disempowerment of employees. But it doesn’t necessarily make people more open about what they earn...
HCA Magazine
Ageism at work: Why older hires are the answer to the Great Resignation Mature workers have a wealth of experience and knowledge, reported as being more loyal and reliable, and in some cases, an increased rate of older employment is associated with a higher...
Training & Development
Has the 'Great Resignation' actually happened in Australia?  The essence of the 'Great Resignation' is that, following pandemic epiphanies, there is a significant upswing of people quitting their jobs - whether they are exiting the workforce altogether...
The Sydney Morning Herald
More 'boomerang employees' are returning to old jobs Changing jobs during the pandemic with lockdowns and remote work is entirely different to changing jobs. With large salaries and enticing offers abounding, it’s easy to get wooed away from a happy workplace, only to pine to return...
The Sydney Morning Herald

Resignation regret? More ‘boomerang employees’ are returning to old jobs

We’ve always had boomerang employees, just not to the extent we notice now. Changing jobs during the pandemic with lockdowns and remote work is entirely different to changing jobs during ‘normal’, more secure times...
Women's Agenda
Cant get talent? Stop overlooking mums, grads and older Australians  It is 2022 and it baffles me. If gender bias wasn’t enough, we filter it further by attaching motherhood to it. Whether it be about being out of the workforce force for several years, the ability to juggle potential conflicting priorities or the need to work reduced hours...
Inside Small Business
Start the New Year Hiring New Talent The first few months of the year are the perfect time to gain an edge in the competition for good staff members. As a business owner, my mind is constantly focused on seeking competitive advantage...
acuity
How Can Employers Keep Staff and Attract New Talent  The impact is great because we don’t have the population to backfill them. This means employers need to be able to not only hang onto their current staff but make sure they are an attractive option for new staff...  
HCA Magazine
HR in the C-suite: How to identify and hire future leaders With a talent shortage looming around the world, and potential hires becoming more demanding about what they expect from a future employer, the pressure is on HR to not only attract the right people...
InsideRetail
Water cooler chats and cheerleading: The rise of the workplace influencer The pandemic assisted in creating the evolution of many new trends. The rise of the workplace influencer is one of these, and like alot of pandemic 'epiphanies', it has been simmering at the surface for some time...
The Australian
Guide on How to Nab the Best Talent                     Hiring has never been tougher. As a recruiter if more than two decades, I have experienced many employment cycles, with thus the hardest yet. Sourcing talent in the Covid environment is confounding...
Managers & Leaders
Top Tips on How to Nab the Best Talent These are some of the toughest recruitment times yet. The staffing challenges we face push us to be more creative and innovative with our solutions. With job vacancies at an all-time high, and unemployment at near full levels, employers face a new frontier in talent acquisition. As a recruiter of more than two decades, I have experienced...
Body+Soul
Still WFH? Why you (unfortunately) need to master self-promotion to be seen In a time of remote and hybrid work, the rules of how we perform our jobs have changed dramatically. We must be self-sufficient, self-motivated, self-managed and yes, self-promoting. The way we communicate with our bosses...
Foundr
How to Leverage Your Existing Employees to Bridge the Talent gap It’s a war for talent, and the continual tightening of the candidate pool significantly impacts current and future success. In bridging the talent gap, upskilling and reskilling the workforce are strategies smart businesses are implementing...
CEOWorld Magazine
Why entitlement is a career derailer                    I see it discussed in deflated terms like there is nothing to be done about it. That is not the case, and it’s no different from any other leadership or ‘people’ issue we encounter. Entitlement is simply today’s issue. As employees do yourself a big career favor and be on the other...
CPA Australia

Tricky questions: interviews in the new normal

Calder says interviewers might quiz a candidate about their strategies to maintain health and wellbeing and to manage stress. For some people, she says, the answer might be yoga, for others it could be meditation...
Women's Agenda
Looking to hire? What the 2022 recruitment outlook looks like  If your interview question is still, ‘why should I hire you’, then consider closing shop now. Instead, the candidate will be asking, ‘why should I join your business?’...
The CEO Magazine
Why Your Assumption About Older Workers' Performance Is Wrong The stigma around hiring older workers is well known globally, but according to recruitment expert Roxanne Calder, pandemic affected businesses could be undermining their greatest...
Body + Soul
Want To Stick It To The Boss? How To Resign With Grace And Keep Your Reputation Intact We’ve all had bosses we didn’t like and wanted to tell them where to stick it. You dream, just once, of telling them what you really feel. Well, think again...
New Idea
Avoid Embarrassing Job Interview Mistakes  It's the stuff of nightmares - you've prepped for a job interview, you're wearing your business best with head held high, you confidently enter into answering questions only to completely blow it. You're not alone...
CEO World Magazine
With Jobs Set To Disappear, Here’s The 5 Key Skills You Need To Make A Career Pivot As a result of social distancing, lockdowns, isolations and the increase of virtual communication, our jobs have already changed and future jobs will never be the same...
Smart Company
This Christmas, Give Your Business The Gift Of Hiring We are operating in unpredictable times, and being attuned to strategies and ideas that assist future success and growth, even if it’s just a small edge, is worth considering...
Daily Mail
How To Write The PERFECT Resume Applying for jobs has changed and is continually evolving. The demand for candidates might be high and the supply low, but that means nothing if you are not seen! You might be the best candidate for the job, but...
Smart Company
Delta Lockdown Survey Reveals What Employees Are Looking For In 2022 In our recent survey of 350 business owners and candidates exploring the impact of the Delta lockdowns, 69.7% of respondents found the most recent lockdowns more stressful than...
CEOWorld Magazine
5 Key Skills You Need To Make A Career Pivot As a result of social distancing, lockdowns, isolations and the increase of virtual communication during COVID, our jobs have already changed and future jobs will never be the same. So which jobs will be impacted...
InsideRetail
Why You Can’t Underestimate The Value Of Hiring Older Workers Australia’s chronic skill shortage has been even more acute since the breakout of Covid-19, and the broken record from businesses across all industries is the lack of skilled workers...
News.com.au
How To Ask For A Pay Rise While Working From Home Asking for a pay rise is awkward at the best of times. In my experience as a recruiter, I’ve known people to resign rather than have the conversation with their boss...
SmartCompany
‘Buddyships’: How teaming up your older worker with a new grad makes your business stronger Staffing will be what makes or breaks a business’s ability to thrive in our rapidly changing world. In countering, agile businesses identify the skills...
Executive PA Media
The Changing Role Of EAs In Our New World As we view it now, our new world might be ‘old’ in a year’s time. Predicting the future of work has never been trickier. Disruptive technologies, social changes... all started long before—the pandemic was just a ‘fast forward’...
Executive PA Media
5 Ways To Better Sell Yourself In A Job Interview Job searching can be gruelling, trying and even demoralising. The good news is, if you have an interview, it means you have successfully run the gauntlet of hurdles and are nearly there...
Women's Day
The Rules Of Resigning At the ‘resignation’ stage? The brain is clever and has been grooming you for weeks or months, as to why leaving is good for you! However, leaving the right way is critical. So, bring your foot back from outside and consider the following...
Women's Agenda
Don’t Underestimate The Value Of Hiring Older Workers Australia’s chronic skill shortage has been even more acute since the breakout of COVID-19, and the broken record from businesses across all industries is the lack of skilled workers...
The Weekend Australian
Seven Key Attributes That Will Help You To Get Jobs – And Keep Them For many people, the feeling of insecurity will remain, no matter our economic times. And that is not an entirely bad thing...
NZ Business
What Are The Jobs Of The Future? I can’t predict the future, but I deal daily with the jobs of the present and being an employment expert, this is what I can tell you about the future of our workforce and jobs...
New Idea
How To Future Proof Your Career So, what skills will you need to shuffle and morph to meet the future shape of your profession, industry, and job? To remain employable, it will be our ‘soft skills’, our human skills, that will enable...
Tonic Magazine
Am I Too Old To Change Jobs? Question & Answer Until recently, society has not been too generous with our demographic, but things have changed. Increasingly, I am working with employers who are crying out for employees with wisdom...
Executive PA Media
7 Human Skills You Need To Stay Employable Australia’s economy is now enjoying a solid bounce-back and recovery, bringing with it a renewed sense of job security. While low unemployment rates are, of course, highly desirable, they are not the sole indicator of...
Women's Agenda
COVID Taught Me What It’s Like To Lose Everything Overnight, But It Wasn’t The End For Me I’ve interviewed many candidates who have been made redundant. I have heard and felt their anguish, despair and fear...
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Most Common Mistakes People Make During Job Interviews I’ve been a recruiter for over 25 years and sat in countless job interviews. While most candidates I meet are great, some still surprise me with the mistakes they make that can so easily be avoided...
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Hire Me Tailoring your résumé, as simple as it sounds is a time-consuming process, especially when you're applying for multiple roles. If only there was a way to simplify the tailoring process... Well, it turns out, there is...
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Redundancy Can Be A Difficult Pill to Swallow, Here's How To Thrive After It Hint: it's no longer looked at as the 'black sheep' on your resume. Sadly, redundancy does not just affect the person being made redundant, but also the families and those closely connected...
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The Skills Needed To Future Proof Your Career The last 12 months have been a time of immense uncertainty. The pandemic affected many jobs, uprooted career plans, and left people questioning their professional futures...
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Why Entitlement Is A Career Derailer Entitlement has always been present in our workforce–to some degree. Social norms have changed dramatically over the past few decades. Since we respect, value and encourage individuality more...
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How Self-Sabotaging Is Your Career’s Number 1 Enemy Most of us are aware of the concept of self-sabotage. We have read about it, perhaps even pondered it, but may not necessarily realise how...
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Returning To The Workforce Enjoy these practical skills for nailing a Zoom job interview. Covid 19 has upped the chances that you will be required to complete your job over Zoom. Here are some tips on how to prepare for and present well in a...
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The Skills Needed To Future Proof Your Career Are soft skills, our human skills here to stay? The last 12 months have been a time of immense uncertainty. The pandemic affected many jobs, uprooted career plans...

Labour Markets leaving New Zealand

AM Show New Zealand

The AM Show New Zealand interviewed Rox to discuss the labour markets in New Zealand and why the workforce are leaving the country.

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Employable

ABC Radio Sydney

 

Employable

flexibility, the new workplace entitlement

Ticker News

Ticker interviewed Rox on job offers and how hiring speed has increased.

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Remote Hiring The Way Of The Future

Sky News

Are you wondering why it’s so critical to always be employable? Sky news thought so! Watch Tim Gilbert’s interview on Sky News with our very own, Rox! Make being employable your top priority!

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flexibility, the new workplace entitlement

Ticker News

Ticker interviewed Rox on flexibility and why it is the new workplace entitlement.

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Mastering workplace politics

Ticker News

Ticker interviewed Rox on mastering workplace politics when returning to the office.

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The Great Resignation

Ticker News

Ticker interviewed Rox on the topic of the great resignation. Has it really happened and what can we expect?

Watch the full interview.

Untapped Workers

Ticker News

Ticker interviewed Rox on the top tips to be employable. In addition to strategies to navigate the candidate shortage by looking to our ‘older workforce’.

Ensure you don’t miss out on fantastic candidates! Watch the full interview.

Virtual Interviews

Ticker News

Ticker interviewed Rox on how to navigate virtual interviews effectively.

Watch the interview for Rox’s tips!

Entitlement Could Be A Career Derailer

AM Show New Zealand

The AM Show NZ invited Rox to their segment to discuss the sensitive topic of entitlement in the workplace.

Hiring In A Pandemic

Ticker News

Ticker interviewed Rox on the top tips to be employable. In addition to strategies on hiring during a pandemic.

PSNews.com.au Review

Have you ever wondered about how employable you are? Recruitment expert Roxanne Calder says if you are employed, it doesn’t mean you are employable!

This is her definitive guide on how to be employable in a competitive job market. Technology is escalating the rate of change in the workplace.

Employable delves into the seven most important traits that employers are looking for in today’s competitive job marketplace. Each attribute is given a chapter that examines its facets, ending with a self-assessment for readers to gauge the state of their trait.

Special chapters are included for those marking life milestones, a practical section includes chapters on custom-building résumés and CVs, skilling up for interviews, writing compelling cover letters and honing the job search by using transferable skills across job clusters…

Keep reading...

Blue Wolf Review

Well written the chapter’s flow easily as if she is sitting speaking with you, as she addresses the aspects and attributes required in the highly competitive world of employment today, as well as sharing her journey and valuable learning experiences.

Each of the seven attributes is given their own chapters which set out in detail what they are, how you can discover whether you have them or not and how to hone, or establish them to perfection. Questions are presented, explanations offered and helpful dialogue makes facing up to yourself relatively easy.

Calder has also addressed the traumatic issues of getting sacked, redundancy and retirement, which is not always the happy place many expect it to be, as well as the very practical aspects of getting a job: resume writing to stand out from the crowd, personal presentation, the very important research and preparation…

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