Today’s generation of workers faced increasing levels of job stress, a known risk factor for mental health conditions, warned beyondblue workplace and workforce senior project manager Nick Arvanitis.

“The definition of job stress basically is to have a role or expectations that you feel you are not able to fulfil,” he said. “You do not have the skills or resources.
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RiseSmart Details Impact of Negative Social Media on Employer Brands

Leading provider of career transition solutions releases data-packed infographic to highlight the powerful effect social media can have on a company’s brand
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I remember being young and wide-eyed in business. I was unsure of myself. I sat silently at meetings listening to older people speak and trying to understand what the heck they were talking about.

I lived in fear that I’d say something stupid. I blush like crazy when I’m embarrassed. I spent years hoping that when I opened my mouth at a meeting I didn’t say something that would make me want to fall through a hole in the floor. I worried so much about what people thought about me that the actual subject matter for the meeting was often peripheral.
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Caterpillar’s Stellar Move To Attract High-Quality Employees

The secret’s out: To be the best, you must hire the best. And with great resources such as LinkedIn LNKD +1.5%, The Muse, and Glassdoor, top talent is becoming easier than ever to find.

But the best talent wants to work for companies that are leaders in their industry. So how do you make potential hires and current employees want to work for your company?
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Management Consulting – HR Human Resources Consulting – When Outplacement Is Stingy After A Job Loss

Losing your job has never been easy. But today, outplacement — a cushion many laid-off workers relied on to soften the blow and ease their transition to a new job — is getting much stingier. And that’s if you get this benefit at all.

Fifteen years ago, a laid-off mid-level executive might have reasonably expected his or her ex-employer to invest $5,000 for four to six months of professional job search assistance. Today that same person would be lucky to receive the dollar equivalent of $1,500 worth of outplacement services. In most parts of the country, that would amount to a paltry two months of coaching.
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Australian Government Fair Work Ombudsman – Industrial action

Industrial action

Industrial action is taken by employers or employees to settle a workplace dispute about working conditions. It includes, when employees:

• don’t come to work
• fail, or refuse to perform any work at all
• delay or put a ban or limit on the work they do
• are locked out of a workplace by their employer

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