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Interviews

Aug 2, 2010 Interviews

Why job interviews are like first dates. Seven signs you’ll be seeing each other again

Sometimes you walk out of a job interview and you just know you’ve hit it off with the interviewer. You have that sense of warmth like the job is a good fit.
You can only think good things about the job, the interview and the employer. A job interview that’s gone well is almost like a [...]

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Jun 30, 2010 Interviews

Amanda Callaghan talks Babies, Digital Marketing & Organics

by Leah Gibbs

Amanda has been working online since 1996, starting out an an internet assistant in a small startup web design business. Since that time she has gone on to manage a consulting team at one of Sydney’s largest digital marketing agencies, as well as being an online health and beauty content manager, an SEO manager, and [...]

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May 5, 2010 Interviews

Clare Lancaster talks to us about Women In Business

by Leah Gibbs

Clare Lancaster is a communication design professional with over 10 years of online business development and marketing experience and the owner/editor of Women In Business, a website that helps women in business and female entrepreneurs use the internet for business.
Her work has been featured in the Wall Street Journal and Forbes and she is a [...]

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Apr 30, 2010 Interviews

Karina Pengelly – The Australian Home Study Institute

by Leah Gibbs

Karina Pengelly, Director of the Australian Home Study Institute talks to Your Balance about being a work at home mum and working part time. She obviously has a super power, running a busy family with her husband Jay and family of four kids – she still gets time to read a book, go to the [...]

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Apr 2, 2010 Interviews

Getting the most out of a telephone interview

by Linda Enever

Linda Enever a Careers Advisor and Recruitment Consultant says getting past a telephone interview is a skill of its very own. And it is not until we are seeking a job that the skills of the phone interview are called upon. Lets try and demystify what is trying to be achieved by the person conducting [...]

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Mar 24, 2010 Interviews

Sophee McFee is on the “Up”

by Leah Gibbs

At the age of 21, Sophee McPhee was at a crossroad in her life having battled with anorexia for nearly five years. Then she started a unique magazine for women.

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Feb 25, 2010 Interviews

Denise Shrivell on Working the Frantic World of Advertising – from Home

by Leah Gibbs

Denise Shrivell has made a success of working in the advertising industry and working from home over the last 10 years.

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Feb 20, 2010 Interviews

Lucia Van Gerwin, Interior Decorator, opens her curtains

by Leah Gibbs

In spite of her father’s advice, Lucia Van Gerwin found her way into interior decorating early in her career. She is has been the Managing Director of More Than Curtains for over 20 years.

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Feb 17, 2010 Interviews

Pamela Frost does it Because she has to

by Leah Gibbs

Pamela Frost is well placed to tell us about getting the work-from-home thing working, having run her own business for eight years. Though with an eight month old baby, things are currently a little more challenging.

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Feb 8, 2010 Interviews

Freelance Writer Sharon Thompson Tells it Like it is

by Leah Gibbs

An interview with Queensland based Freelance Writer Sharon Thompson. Sharon has worked in news, features, real estate writing, column writing, media liaison, media training, web text and more.

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Feb 3, 2010 Interviews

Bring Your Own Kids: Leah Squires Builds a Business

by Leah Gibbs

Leah Squires runs her own travel business specialising in family travel. In this interview she shares with Your Balance the ups and downs of her journey and what keeps her going.

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