Career Skills
Episodes
2024
My career as an auditor (and why I love it)
Auditor Natcha Lertanuntrakul on why the profession is more than just crunching numbers
- Audit
- Careers
15 min listening timePublished onLearn a smart way to hide blank or zero rows
How to leverage multiple Excel features to maximise your report-building efficiency
- MS Excel
10 min listening timePublished onHow to automate report building in Excel
How to automate your reports in Excel using dynamic arrays
- Career skills
12 min listening timePublished onLevel up your custom functions skills
Use these valuable skills to help problem-solve two tricky tasks with Excel formulas
- Personal and career development
10 min listening timePublished onHow to overcome loneliness in the C-suite
Explore peer mentoring for C-suite executives and uncover the benefits for leadership development
- Personal and career development
7 min listening timePublished onHow accountants can master public speaking
Tips for accountants on how to give effective presentations
- Personal and career development
7 min listening timePublished on4 expert tips to combat complaining at work
Discover when complaining at work does more harm than good, as well as ways to curb the habit
- Personal and career development
6 min listening timePublished onThe power of heat maps for sales and costs data
Discover how to use the heat map tool to visualise crucial business data in Excel
- MS Excel
10 min listening timePublished onEthical intelligence for accountants
Explore ethical decision-making and learn how to avoid violating key ethics principles
- Ethics
26 min listening timePublished on3 powerful macros to streamline your workflow
Explore three powerful macros and learn when to create them for optimal productivity
- MS Excel
9 min listening timePublished onMaster calendar creation in Excel
Create and customise your calendar by learning how to combine advanced functions
- MS Excel
17 min listening timePublished onWhat can you expect from the new generation of millennial leaders?
Millennials are now moving into senior roles – here's what can we can expect from them
- Career skills
12 min listening timePublished onUnderstanding burnout: how to recognise and manage it
Understand what burnout looks like, what to do if it happens to you and strategies to avoid it
- Personal and career development
6 min listening timePublished onHow to add a user interaction into Power Query
Learn this smart Excel technique to help you with your data preparation
- MS Excel
12 min listening timePublished on6 ways a manager can coach their team to success
Managers, improve your team's engagement and motivation with these essential coaching tips
- Mentoring
6 min listening timePublished onHow to master using different Excel techniques together
Boost your Excel skills by learning how to build custom lists and use range names
- Personal and career development
17 min listening timePublished onHow to automate report building in Excel (part 2)
How to automate your reports in Excel using dynamic arrays
- Career skills
12 min listening timePublished onHow to lift workplace communication skills with humour
Meet accountant-turned-comedian Alan Cameron-Sweeney, who demonstrates the power of humour
- Personal and career development
27 min listening timePublished onHow to create a dashboard using Excel’s dynamic arrays
Elevate your Excel skills with these expert tips
- Personal and career development
11 min listening timePublished onCan neurodiverse talent boost your workplace?
See how one social enterprise helps match neurodiverse talent with business
- Career skills
26 min listening timePublished onMaster the latest Excel changes: your ultimate guide
Learn about three new Excel functions and the changes to working with CSV files
- Personal and career development
16 min listening timePublished onBanishing the fear: A leader's guide to social media
A digital workplace expert shows how leaders can embrace social media – not fear it
- Personal and career development
22 min listening timePublished onUncover the ‘hidden’ jobs market
Learn executive recruiter strategies to help you find the unadvertised jobs
- Personal and career development
27 min listening timePublished onHow to find career fulfilment
Why purposeful work and fulfillment is good for you and your employer
- Personal and career development
18 min listening timePublished on3 ways to elevate your AI marketability
How to level up your AI game and boost your marketability in accounting and finance
- Personal and career development
- Technology
25 min listening timePublished onBoost your career by ‘thinking like a recruiter’
Learn the secret to standing out in the accounting and finance job market
- Personal and career development
19 min listening timePublished onThe evolution of accountancy in a digital age
How accountants can boost their career prospects by embracing new technology
- Personal and career development
- Technology
24 min listening timePublished onHow to network your way to a dream job
Practical steps to get you to your ultimate role
- Personal and career development
19 min listening timePublished onUnlock the secrets to finding meaningful work
Learn how to find purpose in your work with expert tips from a top career coach
- Personal and career development
17 min listening timePublished onDiscover the power of career coaching
Learn why career coaching is an increasingly valuable tool to help build your work success
- Personal and career development
18 min listening timePublished onHow to avoid burnout and improve your wellbeing
A self-care guide for overworked finance and business professionals
- Mental health
24 min listening timePublished on
2023
Excel tips: how to work with dates and days
Addition and subtraction calculations for dates and days explained
- Personal and career development
15 min listening timePublished onExcel tips: how to use the new data types feature
Learn about the four data types you can now import via the data ribbon in Excel
- Personal and career development
- Career skills
16 min listening timePublished onBoost your skills with tips for Excel function updates
Stay on top of Excel function updates with these tips for dynamic arrays, XLOOKUP and more
- Personal and career development
13 min listening timePublished onLearn Excel’s built-in artificial intelligence feature
The AI function can help with data analysis and audit work. Here’s how.
- Personal and career development
- Career skills
11 min listening timePublished onUnlock the secrets to high-level decision-making
How The Decision Doctor® can help guide your next big leadership or career decision
- Personal and career development
34 min listening timePublished onExcel and ChatGPT
5 May 2023 | We evaluate ChatGPT to see if this AI tool accurately answers Excel questions
- Technology
14 min listening timePublished on3 skills accountants need in a ‘post-truth’ era
Here are three key skills that accountants need now more than ever
- Personal and career development
5 min listening timePublished onMaking the most of mid-career upskilling
Mid-career upskilling is priority. Learn how you can also juggle competing demands.
- Personal and career development
6 min listening timePublished onTop CFO skills for 2024
Strategic finance, employee engagement and technology are high on the agenda for CFOs
- Personal and career development
8 min listening timePublished onTop Excel tips for your first 100 days in a new job
Essential tips to give you an edge when starting a new role in accounting and finance
- Personal and career development
15 min listening timePublished onWill you get a pay rise in 2023?
Explore this year’s jobs and salary trends for accounting and finance
- Personal and career development
- Career skills
29 min listening timePublished onUpskill now: short course or longer program?
Continuing professional development enhances career progress – and finding the right course is key
- Personal and career development
6 min listening timePublished onHow to seek honest feedback from your employees
A safe space for employees to talk openly without repercussions can unlock more honest feedback
- Personal and career development
6 min listening timePublished onCan socialising really be your career secret weapon?
Learn how stronger social connections could boost your career prospects
- Personal and career development
5 min listening timePublished on22 Excel shortcuts to supercharge your efficiency
Boost your productivity with these time-saving tips for everyday Excel tasks
- Technology
- Career skills
32 min listening timePublished onHow to come back from career failure
Career failure may have a silver lining – the opportunity to reinvent yourself or start a new career
- Personal and career development
7 min listening timePublished onLearned helplessness at work: what it is and how to beat it
How to overcome learned helplessness
- Personal and career development
4 min listening timePublished onWhy boredom "can be beautiful": research expert explains
How boredom at work can be your creative secret weapon
- Career skills
7 min listening timePublished onWhy face-to-face meetings are still key in 2023
Meeting fatigue is understandable, but learn why face-to-face still has value
- Personal and career development
4 min listening timePublished onExplore Excel’s remarkable rise
The story of its Mac origins to today’s cloud version and must-have business tool
- Technology
28 min listening timePublished onWhy Excel can be a university student’s secret weapon
Excel can help students hit the ground running when starting off in accounting or finance
- Personal and career development
26 min listening timePublished onUnlock 14 expert tips for Excel formulas
Boost your Excel skills with these practical shortcuts and techniques for formulas
- Personal and career development
- Career skills
24 min listening timePublished onExcel tips: how to use Goal Seek
Use this tool to help create a loan schedule with an interest-free period using formulas
- Personal and career development
11 min listening timePublished onHow to create improved data visualisations in Excel
A guide to Excel’s charts and visualisation tools to enhance your data when displayed
- Career skills
15 min listening timePublished onHow you can harness smarter workplace behaviours
New and innovative perspectives from best-selling author Daniel Pink
- Personal and career development
31 min listening timePublished onExcel tips: how to do dynamic arrays (subscription version)
An update addresses a key challenge when using dynamic arrays
- Personal and career development
10 min listening timePublished onWorkplace tips: delivering bad news
Discover how to professionally and clearly deliver bad news in your work setting
- Personal and career development
8 min listening timePublished onWhy your transferrable skills are in demand
As organisations vie for talent, identifying and building on transferable skills will be key
- Personal and career development
5 min listening timePublished onHow to read digital body language in the workplace
Decode the new digital body language signals and cues with expert insights
- Personal and career development
26 min listening timePublished onMaster 10 new and revamped Excel features
Improve your efficiency and boost your workflow by learning these 10 smart Excel features
- Career skills
15 min listening timePublished onWhat you need to know about references when hiring
Practical work reference examples to help you clarify whether candidates are the right fit
- Career skills
5 min listening timePublished onWhy accountants should learn Python
Python can help you extract new insights from data, and it belongs in every accountant’s skill set
- Personal and career development
7 min listening timePublished onEffective writing tips for accountants
Learn how to engage your audience with data and information visualisation and these writing tips
- Personal and career development
6 min listening timePublished onExcel tips: how to create vertical lines in line charts
If you want to mark something on a line chart, here’s how
- Personal and career development
11 min listening timePublished onExcel tips: how to use custom functions without macros
Learn how new functions expand the power and versatility of formula capability
- Personal and career development
12 min listening timePublished onExcel tips: how to improve your formatting
Make your files easier to read, understand and use
- Personal and career development
9 min listening timePublished onThe crucial skill that will boost your accountancy career
Soft skills are now crucial in accounting and finance. Here’s why.
- Career skills
- Personal and career development
28 min listening timePublished onDaragh O Brien on bad data, big data and the future of data
Demystifying and dissecting the new data frontier for business
- Data management
- Technology
- Business strategy
35 min listening timePublished onWere The Jetsons right about the future of work?
Has The Jetsons' promise of fewer work hours taken flight?
- Career skills
27 min listening timePublished onHow to give your career a boost
Expert strategies for rebooting and refreshing your accounting and finance career
- Personal and career development
29 min listening timePublished onHow to never stop learning
Expert tips on learning and upskilling to future-proof your accounting and finance career
- Personal and career development
- Education
30 min listening timePublished onHow to chart a successful career path
Career experts’ advice for accounting and finance professionals
- Careers
- Personal and career development
33 min listening timePublished onHow accountants can be future-ready today
Expert career advice for accountants and finance professionals to stay ahead of the curve
- Personal and career development
26 min listening timePublished on
2022
Wellbeing at work: Why financial health is only one success factor
Discover how small changes can have big impacts
- Mental health
- Business management
37 min listening timePublished onJobs and Skills Summit Accounting outcomes
Part 2: The summit was held against a backdrop of the lowest unemployment rate in Australia in 48 years
- Economy
- Accounting updates
- Career skills
20 min listening timePublished onFinancial data simplified
Data triangulation, governance and sovereignty explained
- Personal and career development
- Data management
26 min listening timePublished onHow to solve the printing challenge in Excel
Learn how to use the icons in the workbook views section
- Personal and career development
15 min listening timePublished onHow to unleash the power of PivotTables
Learn how to create reports without using a single formula
- Personal and career development
15 min listening timePublished onIntroducing the Excel Data Model
Learn some of the basic features, which are extremely powerful and flexible
- Personal and career development
16 min listening timePublished onUnpacking the Jobs and Skills Summit: Business outcomes
Part 1: The summit was held against a backdrop of the lowest unemployment rate in Australia in 48 years
- Economy
- Career skills
25 min listening timePublished onExcel skills for current and future accountants
Tips you need to know, today and in the future
- Personal and career development
22 min listening timePublished onUnlock summer job market tips and trends
The latest insights on summer’s employment market
- Career skills
21 min listening timePublished on
2021
Top tips from experts on how to get a board role
Advice on taking your career to the next step
- Careers
22 min listening timePublished onWhy accounting skills make you a better leader
How to succeed in a variety of roles
- Personal and career development
42 min listening timePublished onSlicers in Microsoft Excel
Learn how to use slicers on formatted tables
- Personal and career development
8 min listening timePublished onHow to handle formula errors in Excel using IFERROR
What to do if you create a formula and then realise it needs to handle errors
- Personal and career development
13 min listening timePublished onCreating hyperlinked index sheets
Useful tools to speed up and simplify navigation around large Excel files
- Personal and career development
13 min listening timePublished onGet proficient with function macros
Learn how to create your own function in Excel
- Personal and career development
11 min listening timePublished onHow to import Excel files using Power Query
Power up your data transformation and preparation in Microsoft Excel
- Personal and career development
14 min listening timePublished onUse LET function to solve tricky Excel challenges
Stumped by an Excel problem? Check out the LET function.
- Personal and career development
9 min listening timePublished onUnderstanding the LET function
Use this Excel function to solve real-world problems
- Personal and career development
9 min listening timePublished onHow to use an IS function in Excel
Knowing what a cell contains can be useful when developing your formulas
- Personal and career development
10 min listening timePublished onExcel tips: How to use Text Boxes
Discover how to use text boxes and why they'll help in your day-to-day work
- Personal and career development
10 min listening timePublished onWorking with small data sets
Convert a data entry layout into one that works with PivotTables and other reports
- Personal and career development
8 min listening timePublished onAll about the XLOOKUP Function
How to look up code in a table and return entries on the same row
- Personal and career development
19 min listening timePublished onUsing flexible conditional formats in Excel
Make conditional formats work for you in dashboards and reporting
- Personal and career development
11 min listening timePublished onDynamic charts in Microsoft Excel
Learn how to use range names to convert a static chart in a dynamic one
- Personal and career development
13 min listening timePublished onUnderstanding your digital body language at work
Demystifying the new cues and signals
- Personal and career development
27 min listening timePublished onWhy you’re never too young to plan your career
Planning your career begins now
- Personal and career development
43 min listening timePublished on
2020
Career skills revisited: Board success with Claire Braund
How to take that next step in your career to secure a board position
- Personal and career development
38 min listening timePublished onHow to build your skills to get noticed and promoted
Our career experts help you get ready for promotion opportunities
- Careers
- Personal and career development
27 min listening timePublished onHow to thrive during uncertainty
Practical tips for navigating trying times
- Personal and career development
40 min listening timePublished onApproaching problems as new opportunities
Think differently to drive innovation
- Personal and career development
49 min listening timePublished onWhy employers want to see micro-credentials on your resume
Learn how these short courses can help you fill a skills gap
- Education
- Personal and career development
42 min listening timePublished onTeam building and coaching in the workplace
Career tips you can put into practice
- Personal and career development
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