Tips on getting new hires adjusted to the social and performance aspects of their new jobs quickly and smoothly.

The world's most valuable firm is the latest to report diversity numbers amid a debate about whether women and minorities are underrepresented at tech firms.

It's the type of music that makes you want to sing out loud in the car or let loose on the dance floor - but listening to bass-heavy music like 50 Cent can also boost your confidence before an interview.

Most of us will experience career dissatisfaction some time in our working life, but working life doesn't have to be this way

House sales fell 13 per cent in July as winter cooled the appetite of house hunters, but the national median price is still up $31,000 from a year earlier.

Sales of farmland to foreigners has become a heated issue just before the election, writes Phil O'Reilly.

Machines which fell trees under remote control by operators standing at safe distances are being hailed as important new tools and a world first for reducing deaths and injuries in forests.

Pyne Gould Corporation has been forced to disclose documents to the company's former financial controller, who is fighting it over a bonus worth $140,000.

Rising interest rates, LVR restrictions and the onset of winter have taken the heat out of the housing market, according to just released QV figures.

For the first time since the global recession hit, it is now easier to find a job in New Zealand than in Australia.

The jobs numbers out yesterday were less encouraging than the headline drop in the unemployment rate to 5.6 per cent suggests.

Falling dairy prices could weigh on the NZ dollar and help push the currency as low as US80c against the greenback by the end of this year, says an analyst.

Employment growth slowed in the June quarter and outside Canterbury it stalled altogether.

When carpenter Samuel Parnell arrived in New Zealand in 1840, he was asked by a shipping agent to build a store on Lambton Quay.

Argentina didn't default because it couldn't pay its bondholders. It defaulted because a New York judge wouldn't let it pay its bondholders.

Prisoners at Auckland's new $300 million private men's jail could be building or fixing metal skip bins.

Cheap imported carbon credits comprised 99.5 per cent of the units New Zealand emitters used to meet their obligations under the emissions trading scheme last year.

The New Zealand dollar was headed for a 0.8 per cent weekly decline as more buoyant US figures bolstered demand for the greenback and kiwi sentiment was dented by Fonterra.

EBay says women make up 42pc of its staff - a more diverse workforce than many other Silicon Valley technology companies.

Metro Glass' solid sharemarket debut provided the shot in the arm New Zealand's initial public offering pipeline needed.

Labour wants to repeal the law changes that were ceded to Warner Bros over The Hobbit films, a move which the Govt says would cripple the $3b screen industry.

Returning Kiwis are faring better than ever in the recruitment stakes and are being met with open arms by some employers.

New Zealand has retained its rank as one of the world's most developed countries.

The New Zealand dollar has reached its tipping point and looks to be heading lower after the Reserve Bank fired a warning shot across the bows of the market this week.

The so-called "normal" 40-hour working week appears to be a thing of the past, the 2013 Census indicates.

A woman who adopted a child has won the right to paid parental leave, after being told by the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment that she wasn't eligible.

Wireless charging technology maker PowerbyProxi has shelved its plans to list on the NZX this year, according to a market source.

The Reserve Bank raised its official cash rate to 3.5pc yesterday, but said it would now remain on hold for "a period of assessment".

Is poverty for life? A Treasury report suggests not, writes Brian Fallow. Only 24 per cent of those at the bottom decile in 2002 were there seven years later.