Roxanne Calder
Roxanne Calder, author of ‘Earning Power: Breaking Barriers and Building Wealth for Women’ (Wiley $34.95), is a career advisor and the founder and managing director of EST10 – one of Sydney’s most successful recruitment agencies. For more information on how Roxanne can assist with your recruitment needs, visit www.est10.com.au.
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For decades, the great workplace prejudice was ageism. Too old. Too slow. Too expensive. Entire careers were parked with that one label. But a stranger bias is emerging, one nobody wants to name: maleism. It’s the quiet inversion of gender bias and proof that even prejudice has its turn at the pendulum swing. From younger…
The blame-game in a workplace can be toxic – and just like a yawn, it can also be contagious. Here, Roxanne Calder explains why leaders need to nip it in the bud. A manager asks, “Why did this project fail?” The room goes silent. Then slowly, carefully, crafted stories emerge. Inferences about who didn’t do…
Ask any employer about their current workforce tribulations, and unabashedly, the word ‘entitlement’ raises its hand. If your mind has gone straight to Gen Z and millennial employees, pause for a moment. Entitlement is not actually age-specific. It now pervades every generation, job function, title and demographic. It’s a behavioural contagion, akin to yawning or…
Pre-COVID-19 workplace perks were different. In essence, perks were a benefit or bonus of employment, directly connected to the business or industry and intrinsically linked to employee motivations. Work in a hair salon and receive haircuts, and if you have a passion for foreign countries and cultures, a job in the travel industry sees…
Loyalty is the fly-under-the-radar virtue and is frequently usurped for its more glamourous comrades like generosity, fairness, or the new kid on the block – resilience. Whilst all great qualities with deserved standing, they don’t come close to the laurels of loyalty, explains employment expert Roxanne Calder. Loyalty is your best buddy from school…
Ever since the pandemic, the world has touted the importance of managing stress and pressure and providing ample wellbeing for ourselves and our employees. So, we should. It is morally critical and commercially vital. Healthy, happy, and long-tenured staff are fundamental for good business performance, explains recruitment specialist Roxanne Calder, author of Employable –…
The global skills shortage continues. The war for talent, great resignation and great reshuffle are phrases we are more than familiar with. Coined post-pandemic, they accurately assessed the labour market’s competitive state of play. Now with the global economic slowdown, the reprieve on skills must be in sight, writes recruitment expert and founder of…
If you’re growing your business right now, my guess is staffing issues are delivering you a world of pain. Time and our precious human resources are in scarce supply, explains recruitment expert Roxanne Calder, founder of EST10. Every organisation is deprived of talent. As for time, that is the consequence and paid handsomely for,…
The search for talent has become a hen’s teeth exercise. The process is exhausting and costly. Is it any wonder our hopes run high when presented with a sliver of skills and a thimble of talent? asks recruitment expert Roxanne Calder, founder of EST10. Our mind’s cry is, ‘yes, that can work!’. The exhilaration…
Recruitment has never been tougher. As a recruiter of more than two decades, I have experienced many employment cycles, with this the hardest yet, writes recruitment expert Roxanne Calder, founder of EST 10 and author of Employable – 7 Attributes to Assuring Your Working Future. Sourcing talent in today’s post-COVID environment is confounding. Like…
