Season’s Greetings, on behalf of the team at Barratt Galvin! We hope you enjoy our Christmas video message. As mentioned in the video, this festive season is a tough one for many here in Australia, and so we have decided to make donations to the following charities: The NSW Rural Fire Service The Salvation Army Aussie Ark Please join us in donat...

Middle East: Job Board Scam It has come to our attention that a job board Wisdom Jobs has obtained our logo and job advertisements without our permission. Many of our jobs that are showing on Wisdom Jobs are no longer available, therefore these are fake advertisements. See Laura's reponse to this incident, below: https://www.linkedin.com/feed/up...

Any business owner will tell you that time equals money, and this is certainly the case in law firms! More and more businesses are looking for ways to encourage their staff to work smarter, not harder. For many, this can mean the opportunity to work remotely either for a portion of their role, or in some cases, their enture role. According to a ...

What to wear to your job interview is a crucial question that may leave you feeling confused and a little stressed. Whilst we are not suggesting that a person will be assessed purely on the clothes they wear, self-presentation is an important part of the assessment process during interview and during my career as a recruiter I have seen individu...

Staying cool, calm and collected under pressure at work is often in the top 3 spoken and unspoken desirable requirements for any position. This is particularly true if you are client facing and your role is really a defining part of the brand and professional services experience for clients. Being poised means not going into survival mode when y...

Don’t you hate the tight grip of stress around your whole entire being before you have to do a presentation in front of a group of peers? Or clear up conflict with a colleague? Or be incredible in that job interview that you so desperately want? We all do, and I’m about to explain how Wonder Woman can help you in any situation. Firstly, I am in ...

How do we manage to have a work-life balance when we are expected to be always available? Work-life balance is a funny thing. The term was first used in the UK to describe the equilibrium between an employee’s work and their out of work (personal) life. The United States started using the term in the mid ‘80’s when many industries experienced pr...

Last year, there was talk in the media about a new app released by Google called “Just Not Sorry”. The Gmail plugin warns you when you are using words that undermine your message. I am the first to put up my hand to say that I am definitely guilty of this and am keen to change a habit that was obviously formed many years ago. How does it work? J...

21 is too many to work for. That I know from experience. I’ve been a legal secretary for around 17 years – give or take a year as it’s all a bit of a blur now. When I started, the 2 lawyers to 1 secretary ratio was completely normal. After a few years it grew to 4:1, and then somewhere around 2010 it became “normal” to have a 7:1 ratio. If you h...

I have a confession to make. Until three years ago I was essentially technologically “illiterate” - my years working in big firms with an IT department had made me lazy and rendered me useless with technology - I was in danger of being left behind. One of the positive impacts of starting my own business was the need to develop technological lite...