Articles
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Employment Equality (Age) Regulations Law 2006
- This law makes it illegal to discriminate against employees, job seekers or trainees on the grounds of age.
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Double Jeopardy
- Some experts say age discrimination can begin as early as when the worker turns 40. Like older workers, women are facing unique challenges.
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Persue a Portfolio Career
- A portfolio career is the pursuit of more than one income source simultaneously by applying the various skills you've developed throughout your career.
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Life After The Classroom
- The skills developed in the classroom will translate into a business setting. The trick is to identify those skills and label them.
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Age Discrimination Gets Younger
- Age discrimination is affecting workers who are nowhere near the end of their careers.
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Ageism in the Workplace Affects All Ages
- Ageism at work is a bigger problem for people in their late teens than their 50s, according to research from the Employers Forum on Age.
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Eight Tips for Older Workers in IT
- Body piercings won't keep your tech career current. Get eight tips on how to show the boss you're up to date.
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Too Young to be a Manager?
- Don't let your career be stalled by your age.
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Ready and Able
- If you have a disability, it will more than likely affect a potential employer's attitude toward you.
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Innovations for People with Disabilities in the Workplace
- Workers with disabilities are finding new and innovative "assistive technology" to accomplish tasks others take for granted, whether answering phone calls from coworkers or reading office memos.
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Help New Workers Fit In
- Every workplace has a culture. Sometimes you feel it the minute you walk in the door. Other times it's more subtle and takes longer to figure out.
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Dyslexia on the Job
- Dyslexia is a common learning disability that makes it difficult for one to accurately recognise, read and write words.
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Disability Disclosure
- If you have a physical disability that will be obvious as soon as you meet someone, the question is: At what point in the job-seeking process do you address the disability?
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Jobs for the Girls: Surviving in a Man's World
- If you are a woman working mainly with men, how do you handle the situation?
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Women Returners: Where Do You Start?
- Getting back to work after a career break can seem very daunting and many women returners who find themselves in this position just don't know where to begin.
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He Said, She Said
- Men and women often differ in the way they manage people and give orders. Several studies have attempted to show the differences.
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Workforce Re-entry for Sequencing Mothers
- Many professional women intend to ramp their careers back up after taking a planned break from the workforce to raise their children
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Childcare? What Childcare?
- The Government has made it easier for employers to provide childcare, but there is still a lack of awareness of the options.
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Women Are The Key To Filling Skills Gaps
- The Equal Opportunities Commission has identified a major source of skills that can help out the construction, engineering and IT sectors - women.
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Use the Web to Build Your Network
- As a job hunter in a challenging employment market, you should use multiple resources to obtain information about your target job.
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Start a Task Force for Diversity
- Simply recruiting minorities is not enough; a good diversity program needs to include strategies and programmes for managing and developing a multicultural workforce
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Cultural Credentials
- You know two things: Companies are seeking diverse candidates, and you've sent out a tonne of CVs but still can't get your foot in the door because of the tough job market
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Are You a Token Worker?
- One possible downside of a corporate focus on recruiting people from ethnic minorities is the inadvertent creation of a "token".
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Are You a Closet Entrepreneur?
- Are you dreaming of starting a business while you're logging time at a corporate job?
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Every Race, Colour, Nation and Religion on Earth
- London in 2006 is uncharted territory. Never have so many different kinds of people tried living together in the same place before.
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Rights Here, Rights Now
- The government wants a society where every individual is able to achieve their potential, free from prejudice and discrimination.
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Religious Discrimination Law
- The new Employment Equality Regulations came into force on 2nd December 2003 prohibiting discrimination, harassment and victimisation.
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Every Race, Colour, Nation and Religion on Earth
- London in 2006 is uncharted territory. Never have so many different kinds of people tried living together in the same place before.
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Coming Out at Work
- You've come out to yourself, your family and your friends, but have you come out at work?
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Sexual Orientation Discrimination Law
- The new Employment Equality Regulations came into force on 1st December 2003 prohibiting discrimination, harassment and victimisation.
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Avoid Discrimination Based on Sexual Orientation
- After a string of bad job experiences in which revelations that you are gay seemed to impede your advancement, you are once again in search of employment.
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What to Do When Your Boss Is a Homophobe
- It's the 21st century, yet some people still live in a time warp, where it's OK to tell antigay jokes, make homophobic comments and even fire someone for being gay/lesbian
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How to Avoid Discrimination Based on Sexual Orientation
- If you want to find an employer that is inclusive of all its employees, regardless of sexual orientation. What should you do?