Zoë is the careers writer, counsellor and coach behind Impressability and is in her 10th year of running the boutique career development consultancy. She also writes a weekly op-ed column for the local Fairfax newspaper, Border Mail, and sheis the Editor of the Australian Career Practitioner magazine, which is published by the Career Development Association of Australia.
By Zoë Wundenberg I was one of the many millions of sports lovers who watched Ash Barty’s incredible performance on Saturday night to win the Wimbledon ladies crown. Watching someone achieve a lifetime dream was remarkable. However, Todd Woodbridge’s comment about the reality of the experience was a telling one. He said that his response […]
Do women feel pressured to ‘have it all’? I recently heard Jane Caro on the ABC’s The Drum talking about ‘empowerment.’ She understood the concept to have become a stressor and an expectation – that to empower women (in particular) to have both a family and a career is to put undue pressure on girls […]
Last week, I wrote about numbers. About how underemployment is sitting at a 23-year high and trending up, how we have 1.1 million Australians looking for more work than they currently have, and how even the unemployment rate is significantly higher when you change the parameters of the survey from a person who hasn’t worked […]
The ANZAC day tradition is entrenched in our national identity, however, as proud as we are of our ANZAC heritage, the transition to civilian life following a career in the military is often a journey fraught with challenges. My own grandfather was in the British army during WWII. He got out after the war ended […]
‘I want to get into mining,’ is a statement I still often here from clients. For many, winning a job in mining is perceived as being similar to winning the lottery – it means a big salary that can open doors for people in their lives. During the mining boom, opportunities were more widely available […]
What is career development? Typically speaking, we only really think about our career in terms of job seeking and while this is certainly a large part of it, it’s not the only part of it. That rush of panic when you find a job that you want to apply for and you realise that your […]
Networking. It’s a word the induces shudders of horror in many of us: we often imagine stuffy meetings with men and women in suits carrying briefcases and talking about economics and commerce and legislative changes. This image of networking can be quite daunting to anyone, and yet it is a tool that is vital to […]
As both a recruiter and a careers practitioner, ‘anything’ is the answer I have often heard when I have asked someone what they want to do for a job. People perhaps don’t want to appear to be picky in case you don’t consider them for a role that would mean money to them, or perhaps […]
Life can sometimes throw the most unexpected curve balls. When I was a school kid (here, in Albury in fact), I can honestly say being a Career Development Practitioner was never my response to the question ‘what do you want to be when you grow up.’ It doesn’t seem to be the kind of career […]