This Working Life

After the 100th email auto reply, the AI application screening and writing the umpteenth cover letter of the week, the job hunt can feel like a real drain. 
If you're feeling like it's harder to find a job now than last time you were looking you are not alone. A combination of people staying put, international forces and a tight economic market have all impacted the white collar worker world. And that's before we think about AI!
Despite unemployment numbers remaining pretty flat the Australian Bureau of Statistics found that in the first 3 months of this year one point one million people without a job wanted one, with one million available to start within four weeks. Job application numbers per role are up as well. Employment website Seek found that in May this year job advert numbers were down 4.5% on May last year, and that applications per job advert have gone up 5.5% in a year.  
So what can we do if we need a gig? How do we prepare ourselves and our children for a rapidly changing world of work? 
Lisa digs into the data and goes hunting for answers for you. 
Guests: 
Hari Hara Priya Kannan - Chief Data Scientist at The Demographics Group 
Nic Cola - CEO of RMIT Online 
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You can find more episodes of the This Working Life podcast with your on the job correspondent Lisa Leong on the ABC listen app (Australia) or wherever you get your podcasts. 
Please email us at thisworkinglife@abc.net.au if you would like to get in touch, we read them all and love hearing from you!

Are you being asked time and again to be the one who gets everything done, is your reward for crushing it, just more “it” to crush?  You might be paying a competence Tax!  
Research consistently shows that people who are seen as high achievers are stacked with more of the same rather than being given pathways to doing new things. it's a story a lot of people can relate to but it can be a very difficult trap to escape. 
Lisa is joined by a world expert in what she calls "the curse of competence" to give you the tools to break the hex! 
Guest:
Dr Ruth Gotian: Success researcher, Associate Professor at Columbia University and Author of The Success Factor and the Financial Times Guide to Mentoring.
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You can find more episodes of the This Working Life podcast with your on the job correspondent Lisa Leong on the ABC listen app (Australia) or wherever you get your podcasts. 
Please email us at thisworkinglife@abc.net.au if you would like to get in touch, we read them all and love hearing from you!

When you’re under the pump, it can feel like taking a break at work is impossible. But that can be habit forming, and bad for your physical and mental health. 
Learn the benefits of building breaks into your workday, and how to do it in a way that feels manageable.

You may have heard of greenwashing, now experts are worried about wellness washing where workplaces paper over the cracks with wellbeing measures but leave the chasms underneath.

You're starting a new job but you don't have what you need, or you certainly feel like you don't!
Why is this such a universal experience and why are employers so happy to leave people to sink or swim? 
We dive in to the good, the bad and the ugly of onboarding and try to figure out how we can be doing it better, for bosses and for workers. 
Lisa also checks in with the Australian HR Institute about new research showing the global "job hugging" trend has arrived on our shores. 
Guests: 
Dr Talya Bauer - Professor of Management at Portland State University 
Sarah McCann-Bartlett - Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director of the Australian HR Institute 
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You can binge more episodes of the This Working Life podcast with your on the job correspondent Lisa Leong on the ABC listen app (Australia) or wherever you get your podcasts. 
Please email us at thisworkinglife@abc.net.au if you would like to get in touch, we read them all and love hearing from you!