Pure Source blog

Our team writes frequently about industry insights, news, and culture.

I am right, you are wrong, and this is why

“My values didn’t align with his and we had too many different opinions.”   I nodded my head in interest as the candidate I was interviewing told me this was the reason why she’d left her most recent role. She was the Executive Assistant, supporting the person with whom she did not have ‘shared opinions’…

Can someone please turn up the Air Con?

“She told me that my problem is I’m too nice.”   It’s Saturday morning cricket in Brisbane and at 7am it’s already nearing 30 degrees. I’m drinking hot coffee whilst simultaneously sweltering. It’s an early start and still two and a half hours to go so when it comes to caffeine, necessity prevails, despite the…

That time I was a gymnastics coach

Coaching styles in the sporting world offer valuable insights that can be effectively applied to the workplace.

The Paradox of Professional Ghosting

It is the digital equivalent of sticking our heads in the sand, hoping the problem will magically dissolve.

The voice in our head that tells us we don’t belong

If your employees experience the feeling of Imposter Syndrome then it’s helpful to know this.

The case for NOT working from home.

I’m here to offer a different perspective and challenge the assumption that if you don’t like working from home you must have a prehistoric view about the modern workplace.

The 11 green flags of a great employee, what are yours?

The Importance of Reference Checking and Green Flags in Recruitment

The sisterhood is not okay

It is not at all uncommon for a candidate to tell me that they don’t want a female Manager and when asked why, the reasons are not always clear. It is often as a result of a past experience of being undermined. Perhaps it is because of the sisterhood we expect more from our female peers, so when those expectations aren’t met we feel let down”

Working from home has changed our social lives, but can we make work friends remotely?

Remote work can impact our social lives in ways we don’t realise. Here are five ways to make real connections while working from home.

An open letter to all Office Professionals

Part personal retrospective, part farewell to our cherished Office Professional of five years, Kristy.

Seek first to understand, then to be understood

On ‘comment culture’ and our eagerness to speak first and listen later.

Integration is the new work life balance

On handling the multiple interweaving lives we live, in personal, professional, and other contexts.

Meet the centennials

Talking ’bout our next generation.

Returning to work after maternity leave? Read this first

A little advice for those mothers returning from maternity leave, from managing coworkers to your own, complex emotions.

A workplace manifesto to work by

No matter your workplace, here’s a list of workplace rules to live by.

What if a MAFS contestant was one of your employees?

What could leaders learn from… MAFS!?

Diversity and inclusion

Thoughts, opinions and takeaways from the Diversity and Inclusion seminar hosted by the Australian Human Resources Institute with guest speaker, Alma Besserdin, Founder and Director of Wimmigrants.

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