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Solai Valliappan, partner at venture capital firm Scale Investors

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
Canva’s Charlotte Anderson says dropping degree requirements from job ads has helped the software giant hire more people from diverse backgrounds.

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
Danielle Wood, chairwoman of the Productivity Commission

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
Words

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

The new world of work is creating its own fault lines.

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
Michael Hutchens

‘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
Stephanie Smith started in the graduate program at EY last year.

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
Vinay Orekondy with US senator Elizabeth Warren in 2020.

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

January

The gender divide on politics and social issues is particularly marked in South Korea.

A new global gender divide is emerging

Young men and young women’s world views are pulling apart. The consequences could be far-reaching.

  • John Burn-Murdoch