Looks matter if you want to get a job - but it may only help you if you're a handsome man rather than a pretty woman.

If you want to move up, you'll need to take the initiative, says author.

"So, what's changed in the corporate fit-out business over the years?" asked the enthusiastic reporter from an uppity interior design magazine, interviewing this weary old warhorse. "Nothing much," I replied.

A tip for blokes: Look in the mirror - and please pull up your pants.

Job listings on internet auction site Trade Me are up 25 per cent on a year ago, with growth particularly strong in Southland and Gisborne.

Authors offer tips to ambitious executives keen on gaining promotion.

The residential rebuild in Christchurch could require up to 12,500 full time workers and reveal a number of skills shortages in occupations such as concreting and carpentry, Prime Minister John Key says.

Almost half of Kiwis say they are uncomfortable with "friending" their boss on a social networking site.

TVNZ's Good Morning show will cease filming at its Lower Hutt studios from the end of this year.

Foodstuffs Wellington is making more than 100 people redundant in the lower North Island as part of a restructuring to save $4 million a year.

Workers have been thrown "on the scrap heap" by a redundancy offer from the owners of the earthquake-damaged Christchurch Casino, a union representative has claimed. But Prime Minister John Key said casino management were doing everything