This Month
How this actuary became a venture capitalist
Welcome to our new AFR series featuring professionals who have made a big career leap into the unknown.
- Tess Bennett
No degree required: Canva, WiseTech and Culture Amp’s new workforce
Companies are relaxing or eliminating such qualifications from their job ads to access deeper talent pools.
- Euan Black
- Opinion
- Women to watch
This is how to win the productivity prize
If a country used only half its factories, it would waste a lot of its productive potential. The same is true if we tap into only half of society’s brainpower.
- Danielle Wood
The 30 jobs earning surprise spots in the $100k club
Seek’s list is a mix of white-collar and blue-collar jobs, but a $100,000 salary is not what it used to be.
- Euan Black
February
- Opinion
- Flexible working
Work from home if you want but don’t expect a pay rise
Remote working is linked with lower wage growth, higher productivity and happier staff.
- Pilita Clark
- Opinion
- Start-ups
‘We’re stressed and tired, and we’ve never been happier’: start-up founder
Despite the stress, sweat and tears, the founder of Modano says he is never happier than when problem-solving with his colleagues.
- Michael Hutchens
- Exclusive
- Graduate jobs
EY top of the pile for graduates
Despite a torrid year for the big management consultancies, they remain in strong demand as future employers.
- Julie Hare
How this Aussie lawyer ended up working for Bernie Sanders
Vinay Orekondi cut his teeth in Australian politics before moving to the US to work on the 2020 Bernie Sanders presidential campaign. Now he is fighting to change the way Americans vote.
- Ciara Seccombe and Maxim Shanahan