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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

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Jenny Leong during the filming of Could You Survive on the Breadline?

Watch this show before you utter these four words

You hear people say “just get a job” all the time. As an MP, I’d never experienced the pain of failing to find work. A new TV experiment changed that.

  • Jenny Leong MP
Map of disaster payments by Sydney area.

NSW disaster payment recipients top 1 million as men are getting the lion’s share

Sydney’s women have been hit by a “triple whammy” during lockdowns – they’ve lost more jobs than men, are receiving less income support than men and have taken on a disproportionate share of extra household tasks.

  • Matt Wade and Nigel Gladstone

Out of work in Victoria: How the pandemic shattered lives

The pandemic deleted 900,000 jobs overnight – a wipe-out not seen since the Great Depression. And the human stories behind those numbers are brutal.

  • Clay Lucas and Henrietta Cook
Jennie Jeppesen thinks her academic career is over.

From academia to animal shelter: Keeping poverty from the door during COVID

After eight years of casual work, academic and single mother Jennie Jeppesen was in a tenuous position. Now, in the wake of COVID, her future is bleaker still.

  • Clay Lucas and Henrietta Cook
Semir Imam was training to be a youth worker. The pandemic upended his plans.

Semir lands dream job, but pandemic job losses still plague state’s youth

More than 1200,000 young people were forced out of full-time jobs during the darkest days of the pandemic and while some, like Semir, are back at work, many others are still searching.

  • Henrietta Cook and Clay Lucas
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Hospitality student Juhi Sachdev, from Kolkata, has had her world thrown upside down by the pandemic.

‘It just shattered everything’: Overseas students struggle amid hospitality wipeout

Juhi Sachdev’s money has almost run out. The trainee chef from India had a great job at a Collins Street hotel, but the COVID-19 pandemic ended that. Now, her future is uncertain.

  • Clay Lucas and Henrietta Cook
Fiona Caffery ran a successful travel agency before the pandemic hit, but now finds herself “effectively unemployed”.

‘It breaks my heart’: Pandemic puts Malvern East business owner out of work at 58

Fiona Caffery never thought she’d be looking for a job at 58, but the small business owner is determined to make it through after COVID-19 wreaked havoc on her travel agency.

  • Henrietta Cook and Clay Lucas
Peter Shnek, 56, had his life altered in March 2020 when his workplace shut its doors due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

Out of luck and out of work, Peter Shnek just wants a job

‘My life fell out from underneath me,’ says Peter Shnek, 56, who lost his job at a firewood business when state borders closed in March.

  • Clay Lucas and Henrietta Cook
Wylie Miller lost his job on cruise ships when the pandemic hit and is now busking to make ends meet.

The day the music died: How the pandemic changed Wylie Miller’s life in an instant

As the coronavirus upended life across the globe, jobs evaporated on a scale not seen in Australia for almost a century. Close to 900,000 jobs were lost between February and May. Wylie Miller was performing on a cruise ship when the pandemic plunged him into poverty.

  • Henrietta Cook and Clay Lucas

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