It’s graduate recruitment season, and I’ve been talking to lots of people about how to get the best graduates I can find into my team (I recruit about two a year, depending on how good the candidates are). I’ve been unpleasantly surprised at how often the conversation turns to race.Continue Reading
I had a to make a speech at work today to six hundred odd people – a new record for me. I’ve got better at speeches over the years, but they still have about the level of excitement of going to the dentist. The person managing the event (I was oneContinue Reading
The other morning, Hungry Boy was sick. For a change in our house, it was nothing serious, but someone had to stay home with him. He couldn’t go to preschool, as was the usual plan that day. Mr Penguin, who is the primary carer in our house, also does quiteContinue Reading
As the baby boomer bulge works its way through the workforce, with fewer and few new entrants, (in 10 years time, there will be half the new entrants to the workforce each year that there were this year) it becomes more important for companies to figure out how to makeContinue Reading
There was the regularly quarterly article today, following the release of the latest labour force statistics, about how women earn less than men, with the gap narrowing very slightly in the last quarter. Varying reasons were given (Joe Hockey, for the government, drawing a long bow and claiming work choicesContinue Reading
Corporate Woman in the AFR this week had a disappointed commentary on the Federal Budget. The column was calling for a bit more compulsion from the government around flexible working hours – pointing out that business needs to become more friendly towards women/carers who are working, rather than government using the taxContinue Reading
I was sitting in a meeting today, when we were talking about the need for an impressive barrister to help us with a tricky regulatory issue. Our solicitor talked about one potential candidate, “he’s got the right amount of grey hair”. It reminded me of when I was consulting. PuttingContinue Reading
In writing my last post, I also found a couple of fascinating bits of research that have been made possible by HILDA – the Household Income Labour and Dynamics longitudinal survey which has been collecting data since 2001. Glass Ceiling or Sticky Floor? – this is a fascinating piece of researchContinue Reading
There have been two major policy pieces about work and life in Australia recently. Each one recommending some change, but not especially effectively, judging by the results so far. It’s about Time – a project by the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission (HREOC) examining the interactions between family responsibilitiesContinue Reading
Phantom Scribbler and Laid Off Dad had thoughtful comments on this article from the New York Times on how you should praise your children – how it is much more effective to praise a child for putting effort in, than for being intrinsically smart. I recently found a fuller article on the sameContinue Reading
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