REWIND: FINDING THE COURAGE TO TAKE A LEAP OF FAITH
By Gaynor Alder – First published on 8th June 2011 We’ve all stared down the barrel of making a decision that requires us to take a leap of faith. A decision that requires us to trust what we feel inside versus practical evidence. Because when it comes to taking a risk for what matters the [...]
REWIND: TIPS FOR WRITING KICK ASS RESUMES
Soon after, I scaled the dizzying heights of the recruitment ladder, becoming a bona fide recruitment consultant, ingesting coffee into my veins like a heroin addict, inhaling my lunch behind a computer screen so I could work through my “break” and eating more blueberry danishes from the downstairs cafe that I care to remember. After leaving the industry vowing never to return, I eventually dipped my toe back in the shark infested recruitment waters setting up shop as a resume writer for a number of years. So, yes, like I said. Bona fide.
REWIND: OFFICE POLITICS AND OTHER REASONS TO QUIT YOUR JOB
Here are 5 reasons you should quit your job and hit Seek quicker than Kim Kardashian leaving a marriage … including when you’re bored beyond belief and the people around you make you want to call OOO to perform emergency CPR on your soul.
REWIND: JOB HUNTING RESOURCES FOR CREATIVE PEEPS
The likes of Seek and My Career are about as useful for creatives as a handbag of prophylactics are for a nun. If you’re a creative, then you need to find out where the creatives hang out. Otherwise, you’ll be getting nowhere fast with your job search and wondering if your dad was right when he said you should’ve got a “real job”.
INTRODUCING THE TEENAGE GIRL’S SURVIVAL GUIDE
The Modern Woman’s Survival Guide now has a little sister! The Teenage Girl’s Survival Guide is launching on Monday April 2nd 2012, and will break new ground as an online magazine dedicated to teens // TGSG will set trends, rather than following them // TGSG will celebrate individuality, rather than fitting in //
TGSG will inspire confidence to strut teens in their platform heels into early adulthood with a water tight self esteem that accepts nothing less than the best.
JOB HUNTING. THE HIGHS AND THE F%*KING LOWS.
If there’s one thing I know to be true, it is this. That when you keep knocking on doors and nobody is answering, you need to look elsewhere. Because the universe sometimes has better things in store for us. Better things we’d never stumble across, had it let us walk through the other doors. It puts a door bitch on them, so that we can’t enter, no matter how well dressed we are or how much we think we want to slip behind their red rope.
POPULAR POSTS: AN OPEN LETTER TO MOTHERS
Mothers everywhere, please let it be known – I’m in awe of you. Do tell me, how do you do it? I’ve been working full time this week and my niece is over from Perth with my parents – and I wonder to myself, how the feck does any woman do this motherhood malarkey?
POPULAR POSTS: HOW TO OVERCOME POWER TRIPPERS IN THE WORKPLACE
We’ve all worked with people who get an erection whilst wielding their over inflated sense of self importance over others, just because they have a title. Otherwise referred to as a wanker …
GUEST POST: THE PERFECTION OF ORDINARINESS
Laura Valerie writes … “Nothing is so commonplace as the wish to be remarkable”. It’s an oft-quoted line, and I am sure I have heard it before. Yet, this time, it hit me like a ton of bricks. I realised exactly where I had been going wrong: I was trying, with all my might, to be remarkable. When the truth is that I am ordinary. And that is not a depressing revelation. In fact, it is liberating. Let me explain.
ARE YOU CREATIVE STRUGGLING WITH 9 TO 5?
I’ve just got home from work and crawled into bed with my laptop and a glass of sauv blanc, and my flatmate is laying on the couch in a semi coma yet again post another day at the office. Both of us are singing the same song – that is if we had the energy [...]
DEAR DOLLY AND OTHER CRISES: NEW ADVICE COLUMNS
Yes, that’s right, if you’re in the midst of relationship drama or dating dilemma, want to know how to have your cake and eat it too, not sure what you want to do when you grow up or just need some advice on a problem – The Modern Woman’s Survival Guide has got you covered
WHAT DOES SUCCESS MEAN TO YOU?
A little cartoon to remind us that everyone’s definition of success is different, and at the end of the day we all should measure our success by our own values, not anyone elses.
GUEST POST: IS YOUR JOB HEALTHY?
This post is written my resident Intern, Roxanne Allan, and it is from her fabulous blog “This and That“. Tash’s post ‘How Do You Decide That What You’re Doing is the Right Thing?’ got me to thinking about what I’m doing. This is partly because she used my life as an example (and just in case [...]
