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Career Coach: Why you should support employees continuing education

Providing these opportunities not only strengthens the knowledge and skills of their employees, but also helps retain their top talent.

Career Coach: Yes, you still need strong communication skills

Arne Sorenson recently shared his views on what employers are looking for in their new hires at an event at the University of Maryland's Robert H. Smith School of Business.

Part-time work seen as career limiting

Negative attitudes and perceptions of discrimination against part-time employees remain strong.

Mark Gillard: What Generation X does next

The importance of degrees

Danielle Wright discovers that it's not so much what degree you do as just doing a degree that counts

Apprenticeships close skill gaps

In the past, apprenticeships were often seen as something for people who didn't get good enough grades to go to university. Times have changed, reports Danielle Wright

Best friends make work fun

Do you have a work bestie? A pretty straightforward (if paraphrased) question you'd think, but it still made me sit back and think. By Alan Perrott

NZ's doctor shortage: What needs to be done?

Paul Charman: Beware the charismatic ning-nong

Preparing students for the real world

Failure made me a better leader

A negative experience can stimulate enlightenment; it can reveal the best way forward and motivate you towards it

Creative skills = global opportunity

Not so long ago, parents of a teenager wanting to be an artist or a musician would tell them to get a real job but that perception has changed

Catriona MacLennan: Equal Pay Day - a message to Len Brown

November 10 is Equal Pay Day. There is 14 per cent of the year left to run and, as New Zealand women on average earn 14 per cent an hour less than men, women effectively work from now until the end of the year unpaid.

Steer ship in the right direction

Welcome to my regular series entitled "My Light Bulb Moment". This column highlights a "blinding flash of insight" business, cultural and sports leaders have experienced, and how this changed their lives forever.

Young professionals left to languish

NZ companies are failing to develop skills in graduates say recruitment specialists.

The secrets of a Kiwi worker

Ever wondered what it's really like to be a pastor or a psychic? Or what a bikini waxer really thinks about their job? Here, nine Kiwis with very different careers reveal - anonymously - the secrets of their working day.