What lessons can I impart from my experience of having my confidence shot, my bank account filled with electronic tumbleweed and my friends busy all day with their real jobs?

The new year is the opportunity for assessing the past 12 months and making a fresh start - it's good to use January as a time to re-evaluate your career, your habits, everything.

Long-serving Wellington radio host Justin du Fresne is retiring from his Saturday morning Newstalk ZB programme at the end of the year.

High school years are when teens face important decisions that will shape their future. But whom do they go to when they need advice?

Youngsters with ambitions, no matter how challenging or unlikely, will learn to focus and work hard.

Talented women are significantly under-represented in top jobs, but organisations can take action to level the playing field.

If you're in your golden years and don't think you have enough money saved for a comfortable retirement, you're in good company.

Some 1,000 recruits are needed to train for work on roads, fresh water, stormwater and other infrastructure.

With oil fields generally in remote or unstable places, Sarah Balsom feels lucky to be based in Taranaki.

People have been talking about increasing women in leadership for decades, yet little progress has been made over the past 10 years.

Auckland business Douglas Pharmaceuticals, founded in 1967 by managing director Sir Graeme Douglas, is one of the fastest-growing pharmaceutical development and manufacturing companies in the Pacific area.

With business confidence at a three-year high and demand for construction workers soaring, there may never have been a better time to get into a trade.

Does today's workforce "live to work", or do we "work to live" and simply go to work to pay the bills so we can enjoy our lives?

Entrepreneurs are driven by the next big idea, the next big trend, and NZ has a number of prominent people leading the way, including Xero's Rod Drury and the Ryan brothers of YikeBike fame.

Three years ago, Jonathan Davison, 32, achieved his goal to climb Mt Everest. One year later he joined Mainfreight's graduate programme.

Di Humphries, the former boss of Glassons women's wear chain, is seen as a strong contender for the top job at children's clothing retailer Pumpkin Patch after chief executive Neil Cowie resigned this week.

Country music star is still waiting for Hollywood to get on board, writes Barney McDonald.

With 'jobs for life' now a rarity, more people are juggling multiple roles.

Elizabeth Marvelly became a pop opera star at the age of 18. Six years on, though, the Kiwi singer is packing it in, deciding that she no longer wants to sing the classical music that has brought her fame and money.