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Have you ever finished reading a book and continued to think about it for days, even weeks, after? I guarantee ‘Blink - The Power of Thinking without Thinking’ by Malcolm Gladwell will have that effect on you. I’m fascinated by the brain and how we are influenced, so I quickly got engrossed in the book and just a few days into my holiday I had it finished. Would you believe ...

Annual leave is provided for a reason – to use it! After over 2 years of work, using annual leave for a few long weekends here and there, it was time for me to take a decent holiday. When deciding on where to go I considered laying on a beach somewhere working on my tan, going home to NZ, or visiting friends in Europe. Due to my Libran indecisiveness, I thought I would revie...

Now I’m anything but a “Techie”, but even I am fascinated by technology these days and how, as a nation, we’re progressing into spaces we never knew existed 20 years ago! I was sat on a Sydney train a few months back and I noticed so many people with their wireless headphones, and I thought to myself “I gotta get me a pair of those”. What will be next after the wireless head...

Coming up to the festive season, I wanted to write about something that we can all relate to in the business world and that is… coffee! Many people drink coffee in order to boost their energy and feel recharged throughout the day. But in fact, your daily coffee could do so much more than just that. Does coffee decrease Alzheimer's or Parkinson's disease? Increase your fibre ...

Whenever I have inspiration for my next blog, I have to start writing straight away! I’m currently on a plane flying up to Cairns for the weekend to meet my partner and his parents who are over on holiday from Scotland, and I’m having a moment of gratitude for being able to live in such an amazing country. I think it’s fantastic that Australia has been built on immigration, ...

What makes our advertisement or our job pitch stand out from the sea of competitors in the recruitment industry? A simple answer… your company’s story. Unfortunately, for any company, this is the secret weapon which many recruiters don’t utilize. At Kennedy Reid, we build a relationship with our clients that allows us to understand how their company has evolved and what type...

Laws of attraction – Insurance, a career for young talent or are we still in the mindset that people just fall into the insurance industry? My name is Amanda, I have been recruiting within the General Insurance industry for four years, and more of my clients are asking daily where the graduates are and why aren’t they interested in a career within Claims, Broking or Underwri...

It seems to be an oncoming trend that employers are encouraging staff to find the balance between work and life. Some businesses implement strategies like extended lunch breaks to make time for exercise, offering flexible working hours and even the option to work from home. Finding the balance is what is important for you to be able to succeed within a role at work. If your ...

It’s Monday morning and your alarm goes off, the Monday blues feel like the end of the final episode of your favourite Netflix series and you start to question whether you really need money or whether it’s possible to live off the fat of the land with your new tomato plant… It sounds like it’s time to put your virtual ‘Open to Opportunities’ cap on and let Recruiters know yo...

We all interact briefly on a daily basis with many wonderful and interesting people. Maybe it’s your regular bus driver, your “go to” coffee guy, your concierge where you work, or the busker on the street on your daily commute. We were curious about the back stories of these unique individuals and decided we are going to find out “a little bit” more about each of these peopl...