Hiring

September

Workplace

Employers say rapid technological changes and the switch to online learning mean today’s tech grads are less “job ready” than previous cohorts.

The two trends making Gen Z tech grads less ‘job ready’

Employers remain satisfied with the quality of today’s graduates. But they believe two forces are working against them.

Sep 25, 2024
Euan Black

Exclusive
Jobs

Generative AI appears to be turbocharging a wave of generic job applications.

How to spot when a CV has been written by AI

It’s not always easy to tell when a CV or cover letter was written by generative artificial intelligence. But a lack of personality is a common giveaway.

Sep 13, 2024
Euan Black

Accounting

Accounting professors say a plan to let school-leavers with no degree become chartered accountants risks tarnishing the profession’s reputation.

Degree-free accountants risk undermining profession, unis warn

A proposal to let school-leavers with no degree become chartered accountants risks tarnishing the profession’s reputation, warn leading accounting professors.

Sep 12, 2024
Euan Black

July

Exclusive
Business IT

ASX CIO Tim Whiteley is attempting to deliver a raft of tech upgrades.

ASX cuts back on overpaid tech contractors who were ‘taking the p---’

The company’s tech boss is reducing reliance on contractors and consultants after insiders blew the whistle on temporary staff.

Jul 15, 2024
Paul Smith

Disability

Medibank’s Shelley Matheson at her home in central Victoria.

What businesses are doing right for this group of workers

Not only did it mean Shelley could work in a step-free environment catered to her needs, but it also meant she didn’t have to ask for special treatment.

Jul 14, 2024
Euan Black

Workplace

Declining vacancy numbers mean more disgruntled employees are staying put because they have no better option.

More workers feel stuck in their jobs. Bosses are responding

Executive coaches and HR professionals say managers are seeking guidance on how to re-energise workers who are staying put because they have no better option.

Jul 14, 2024
Euan Black

BOSS

Anna Wiley, BHP’s asset president of copper South Australia; Siobhan Toohill, Westpac’s chief sustainability officer; Tammy Medard, managing director of ANZ’s Institutional in Australia and PNG.

‘I shot Bambi’: Women leaders on their toughest decisions

Often the toughest decisions are those that affect other people. Here winners of the Women in Leadership awards share their hardest calls.

Updated Jul 10, 2024
Sally Patten

June

Street Talk

New hire at Morgan Stanley: Jordan Mason has joined its insto equities team in Melbourne

Morgan Stanley hires executive director for equity sales

Mason spent five years at the Wall Street investment bank between 2011 and 2016 where he worked in equity sales in Singapore and Hong Kong.

Jun 28, 2024
Sarah Thompson, Kanika Sood and Emma Rapaport

Updated
Workplace culture

Canva co-founder Cliff Obrecht at the Morgan Stanley conference.

Canva co-founder calls for ‘wartime’ approach to staff performance

Cliff Obrecht says companies that let poor performance slide are forced to do big lay-offs, something the graphic design group headed for an IPO has avoided.

Updated Jun 12, 2024
Nick Bonyhady

Street Talk

APM Boss Michael Anghie and his advisers have persuaded MDP to pay more for the employment services group.

Madison Dearborn ups APM takeover price to $1.45; deal signed

MDP bumped its acquisition price to $1.45 a share to get APM’s independent board committee over the line.

Jun 2, 2024
Sarah Thompson, Kanika Sood and Emma Rapaport

April

Opinion
Chanticleer

Steve McCann left Crown Resorts in better shape than what he found it. Is he up for a new challenge?

Is this the person to save fallen Star Entertainment?

The clean-up of the gaming company is one for the ages. And there’s a name keeps coming up as a potential salvage CEO - former Lendlease boss Steve McCann.

Updated Apr 29, 2024
Anthony Macdonald

Employee perks

Jessica Campbell, Google’s human resources lead in Australia and New Zealand, said the new family-building benefits would make employees feel more supported and valued.

Companies picking up the bill for employees’ egg freezing and IVF

Google has joined the growing ranks of companies offering financial reimbursements to staff for fertility treatments.

Apr 29, 2024
Euan Black

Careers

Candidates have become accustomed to dialling into meetings because of the shift to working from home, and preferred to interview this way, recruiters say.

Job seekers refuse to meet employers in person

Virtual job interviews are making it harder to assess applicants and highlighting a decline in people skills since the rise of working from home.

Apr 24, 2024
Euan Black

Street Talk

The buyside community has claimed another scalp: Jardens Chris Tolj has been poached by Greencape Capital.

Jarden Australia MD jumps to buyside

Tolj is expected to take up a position a specialist Australian equities fund manager Greencape Capital.

Apr 19, 2024
Sarah Thompson, Kanika Sood and Emma Rapaport

February

Street Talk

Charlie Jamieson, CIO at Jamieson Coote Bonds.

Jamieson Coote Bonds’ global funds cop Zenith downgrade

“Zenith’s conviction in each fund has lowered as the team struggles to generate unique global insights and excess returns outside the domestic market,” it says.

Feb 4, 2024
Sarah Thompson, Kanika Sood and Emma Rapaport

December 2023

Street Talk

HSF partner Nikki Smythe joined the firm in 2009.

Clifford Chance poaches Herbert Smith Freehills partner

Smythe joined Freehills as a graduate trainee and worked out of its Sydney office.

Dec 29, 2023
Sarah Thompson, Kanika Sood and Emma Rapaport

Hedge funds

Bridgewater CEO’s past office romance led to favouritism claims

An executive pushed out in Nir Bar Dea’s first major corporate overhaul accused the company of favouritism, prompting an investigation by an outside law firm.