Black Friday Sale, Career Workshops & more

Welcome to the latest Purposeful Careers newsletter. In this edition:

1.????? Upcoming Career Masterclasses

2.????? Black Friday Special offer

3.????? Client success story

4.????? ICYMI – Latest WGEA Pay Gap data

5.????? Melita in the Media

6.????? Referral Rewards

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1.????? Upcoming Career Masterclasses

Here are my next free zoom-based Masterclasses in December, you can sign up for them on my webpage: Career Events | careersonpurpose.com or via LinkedIn:

a.????? New Year, New Career - 2025, Tues 3rd December 5pm AEST | 6pm AEDT | 8pm NZDT.

Are you planning to create a career you love? Most people spend more time planning their holidays that planning the career where they spend most of their waking hours. I will cover:

?? Learn how to identify your ideal career and next moves.

?? Strategically map out your career goals for 2025

?? Assessing and improving your current job-hunting techniques.

?? A proven strategic pathway to find, apply for and gain your ideal job.

?? Manage your personal brand internally and externally

?? How to plan the steps to get the most out of your career

b.????? Future-Proof Your Career, Wed 3rd December 5pm AEST | 6pm AEDT | 8pm NZDT.

We spend 90,000 hours at work in 3 to 7 different careers in our lifetime, so we want to make them count. In this popular event, I will cover how to future-proof your career, specifically:

?? Identify what you want in your own career path and plan to achieve it.

?? Identify the transferable skills and qualities to help future proof yourself.

?? Make career contingency plans to ensure that you are always employable.

?? Ensure your career collateral is always ready for you to gain a new role.

?? Be confident and proactive in job hunting regardless of the job market.

?? Learn how to manage your career on purpose.

2.????? Special Black Friday Offer

We are making it even easier for you to make that change, to gain a better job, secure a pay rise or promotion, or find a whole new career direction for the?New Year 2025, with our biggest?Black Friday?Coaching sale. Save up to 30% on any of our Career Programs (Career Discovery, Career Transition, or Career Progression) and 10% off any individual items. This is running until 13th December.

3.????? Client Success Story

I’ve recently had clients go from being unemployed to securing new roles, despite the job market, who have given some lovely feedback. I would love to share with you the feedback from my client Sel who succeeded in gaining a new HR role in just 4 weeks despite 6 years overseas in a totally different role.

The roles are out there if you have the right approach and know where to look…

4.????? Latest WGEA Pay Gap data

Released on 20th of November, the WGEA has released the latest Australian Gender Pay Gap (GPG) for 2024, which is 21.8%. Here are some key statistics, which is why I am passionate about help change this for the better:

• Women earn, on average, 78c for every dollar men earn, equating to $28,425 less each year.
• 50% of employers have an average total remuneration GPG over 12.1% and a median gender pay gap over 8.9% (down from 9.1% last year).
• 56.4% of employers overall and the majority in every industry improved their average total remuneration GPG over the last year.
• Just 1 in 4 CEOs are women and the gender pay gap for these key roles is the highest at 27.1%. Women CEOs are paid, on average, $158,632 less in total remuneration than men!
• 1 in 4 boards still have no women and in men-dominated industries this is 41%.
• 100% of occupations and industries have a gender pay gap in favour of men.

Now for the good news, for both women and men - we are heading in the right direction:

• Employers conducting a gender pay gap analysis increased 13pp to 68%. Of those, 90% did analysis in the past 12 months and the proportion acting on the results increased 15pp to 75%!
• More employers have a gender equality policy (up 20pp to 51%) and more employers consulted their employees (up 22pp to 69%)!
• 45% are now setting targets. Of those, 68% are setting targets to increase women in management, 59% set targets to reduce their gender pay gap and 35% to have a gender-balanced governing body
• More employers are offering paid parental leave (up 5pp to 68%) and a greater proportion of primary carer parental leave (up 3pp to 17%) is being taken by men.

5.????? Melita in the Media

One for all the German Speakers.

You may not know this about me, but I am a fluent German speaker thanks to my high school AFS exchange to Germany. 30 years later I still enjoy speaking German and using it when I can.

Recently I had the opportunity to put my German and careers knowledge to the test in 3 podcasts for SBS German, thanks to Julia Grewe at SBS, here are two of them:

a.????? Job Hunting Advice for Germans who have recently moved to Australia: https://www.sbs.com.au/language/german/de/podcast-episode/arbeiten-in-australien-wie-finde-ich-einen-job/ntagli4s9

b.????? Career Advice for returning to the workplace after parental leave: https://www.sbs.com.au/language/german/de/podcast-episode/arbeiten-in-australien-wiedereinstieg-nach-der-elternzeit/rc7hokusf

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6.????? Referral Rewards

I am blessed to gain most of my lovely clients via referrals from previous clients I have helped. This is something that I value highly, and I am offering Referral Rewards as a thank you.

I am offering a $100 Visa Gift Card for every new client you refer who signs up and pays for a Career Program (Career Discovery or Transition or Progression).

Just a small way to thank my advocates.

If you know someone who needs help in their career please refer them to me here:

www.careersonpurpose.com.au or via my LinkedIn profile