From a macro-level perspective, high global unemployment levels have become mainstay and are looking likely to be the norm for the foreseeable future. What seems more worrying still is that youth unemployment (those aged between 15 and 24) is typically double that of national unemployment averages (15 to 64 year olds) in virtually all developed nations. Even given predicted demographics that indicate by 2050 younger generations will have halved in terms of population numbers (which also comes wi...

When community-based counselling service Home & Family Counselling approached us at the start of the year, we could not pass up the opportunity to assist. While we had made cash donations to support not-for-profits in the past, this time, we provided Home & Family Counselling recruitment services, completely free of charge. Our Auckland-based Consultant Mandy Mella took on the job, and for two weeks she worked alongside the not-for-profit to find them a permanent staff member for their p...