career advice

Welcome to the 2019 Women’s Agenda Mentee’s Manifesto. It’s where we feature tips and strategies to empower you to enhance your leadership capabilities.

This is part one of the Mentee’s Manifesto, supported by Charles Sturt University and published in the lead up to the 2019 Women’s Agenda Leadership Awards.

Are employers focusing on the right motivations (flex work, higher pay, leadership training etc) when it comes to attracting and retaining female talent?

“We have a very male construction about what confidence looks like,” Jamila Rizvi said at a recent event hosted by Triumph.

Despite evidence of their success, women experiencing impostor syndrome are more likely to believe they are intellectual frauds.

Like many university students Little Creatures head brewer Jody Thomas was passionate about beer but unlike most others she forged a career out of it.

Whether opting for less hustle is a cop out or a stroke of genius remains to be known but I will spend 2019 testing out having with no goal.  

Neela Janakiramanan is a surgeon with a unicorn husband doing more than his fair share of the unpaid work so she can pursue her career. Others don’t get it.

Sometimes business leaders have the task of having tough conversations with their staff and teams. These six tips will help it go smoothly.

Kimberly Walpot is an engineer who has travelled the world to try something new and forge a global career in the oil and gas industry.

Returning to work after parental leave can feel loaded. Jess Heading dispels 5 of the myths she hears most regularly that hold returners back.

Fran Caratti had been out of the workforce for 3 years after adopting her niece. She struggled to find work until landing a spot in EY’s Reconnect program.