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Your fancy new job title may sound impressive, but it might actually be complete nonsense.

Why your fancy new job title is probably a lie

We don’t want a world where career progression is measured by a garbled collection of words on your email signature instead of by the work that you actually do.

  • Tim Duggan

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The ABC office in Ultimo.

Play School staffer sues the ABC over fixed-term contracts

The case, brought by the Media, Entertainment & Arts Alliance, has been filed in the Federal Court on behalf of Tom Scott, a digital producer on the children’s show.

  • Calum Jaspan
Workplace bullying may include belittling the target and often includes a power imbalance.

Younger workers are ditching toxic workplaces. You can too

Millennials and members of Gen Z, are less willing to endure bullying behaviour from colleagues.

  • Cathy Bussewitz
AI has already infiltrated multiple parts of the human resources process, from hiring to training to evaluating.

A 15-minute meeting with HR turned up on my calendar. I knew what it meant

Big tech firms are shedding staff all over the planet. Last week, it was my turn.

  • Cayla Dengate
Thousands of recruiters checked out my profile, but not one of them came knocking.

My bad job interview went viral on LinkedIn, but I still don’t have a job

As my post roared past 1 million hits I watched on excitedly as recruiters in their thousands, from Cape Town to Michigan, weighed in on my experience and viewed my profile.

  • Liam Heitmann-Ryce-LeMercier
Illustration by Dionne Gain

After 50 years, we’re back to the glory days of full employment

One factor explains why Labor won the recent election so convincingly despite a cost-of-living crisis.

  • Ross Gittins
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Though having grown up in a working-class home, Caroline Zielinski is now in the middle class.

As the only child of immigrants, I know the discomfort of moving into the middle class

Despite building what is in many ways my dream life, for a long time much of it felt out of reach to me.

  • Caroline Zielinski
The Matrix

Why Gen X is the real loser generation

Don’t cry for millennials or Gen Z. Save your pity for those in their 50s.

  • The Economist
Commerce graduate Ash Bryan hated multistage interviews for marketing roles – and took up a refrigeration apprenticeship instead.

‘You can earn a decent amount’: Ash has a commerce degree. But now he’s a tradie

Australia is in desperate need of tens of thousands of tradies over the next five years. Fixing the shortage all begins with tackling job snobbery.

  • Jenna Price

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