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Would you like to Find a Way – or Make One – to Attract and Retain Talent?
Purchase Bridget’s books to help you fast-track your progress.
Bridget’s first book “Find a Way – or Make One – to Attract and Retain Talent” is available in eBook (immediate download) and Paperback format on Amazon.
Bridget’s second book “Find a Way – or Make One – to Work You Want” is now available on Amazon in eBook (immediate download) and Paperback format.
About ‘Find a Way or Make One to Attract and Retain Talent’
This book is a must-read for business leaders, recruitment and organisation culture experts, and People and Culture Managers if you want to create GREAT employee experiences and save your organisation strife, time and money. The author has decades of experience helping hundreds of organisations to attract and retain talent and create GREAT employee experiences. She understands human motivation. In this book you will find for the first time, in one place, the complete guide to attraction and retention. This book references the latest data and research and shares case-studies, practical examples and over 140 practical ideas to attract and retain for you to implement in your workplace.
Read this book for:
- A brief overview of some of the macro issues
- Research data
- An understanding of what motivates employees to leave – and the vast difference between the real reasons employees leave and the reasons managers think they leave
- Strategic guidance to develop your own Employer Brand Strategy and Employee Value Propositions
Over sixty ideas to attract talent - More than eighty ideas to retain talent
- A personal action planner, at the back, to write down the top ten ideas from this book that you will explore and action.
Read on below for the foreward to the book, written by Christopher Karvountzis, and more information about the author and upcoming books in the Find a Way or Make One Series.
Foreword
Bridget Hogg is always able to ‘Find a Way or Make One,’ for me this is what makes this book a must-read.
My first experience of this was in 2011 as a young Regional Manager when, at the last minute, Bridget was engaged to save a failing employment project. That was the moment I first realised she had something special that goes beyond mere skills, knowledge and experience. Bridget was able to succeed where two other organisations had failed to even start a large-scale employment project.
What sets Bridget apart is her ability to understand human motivation, to sow the seed of inspiration and know, instinctively, how to nurture and grow it. In this book you will find for the first time in one place the complete guide to attraction and retention. This book goes beyond the theory in drawing out practical examples and how to implement them in your workplace.
With a career spanning organisational psychology, professional speaking and career development Bridget is recognised as one of the nation’s leading authorities on attraction and retention. This book will help you to learn from Bridget’s extensive experience and better equip you to ‘Find a Way or Make One.’
Christopher Karvountzis, Speaker, Activist, Mentor, The Good Purpose Network
What They’re Saying
“Bridget has written what is sure to become the definitive guide to retention and attraction. The book sets out a clear and easy to comprehend model, breaks the subjects down into their component parts and brings them to life with current real-world examples. The book draws upon relevant and up-to-date data and draws on Bridget’s decades of experience in translating this all into actionable insights. An east to digest handbook and reference that has the power to transform your organization.”
Chris Karvountzis – Program Director, Innovation Central Adelaide
5.0 out of 5 stars Very important read for today’s HR people
“This book is an essential read for anyone that is required to attract and retain talent. We are all aware that COVID-19 has impacted the world of work in unexpected ways and this book is timely in providing a roadmap to successfully ensure that you have a skilled and highly productive workplace. Highly recommended”
Bridget Ransome, Executive Officer Engagement.
About ‘Find a Way or Make One to Work You Want’ – just released 2025
This book is a must-read if you want to find, or make, work you want. If you have been retrenched, if you are a job seeker or if you are thinking of a career change – this book is for you. It will save you time in your job search as it helps you to: get in the most resourceful mindset; find the hidden jobs; write an awesome resume; ace that interview; and find work you want.
Or, you may have an entrepreneurial bent – you may be one of those folks who prefers to ‘make work you want’ rather than ‘find’ it. You may be reading this book as a jumping off point for starting your own business. This book is also for you. You will find guidance here to help you ‘happen to things’, rather than let things happen to you; ideas to consider at the start of your venture – and useful support contacts to pursue.
The author has twentyfive years’ experience helping hundreds of retrenched workers, career changers and job seekers to find or make work they want. She understands what it takes, how it can be a struggle and how it can sometimes magically fall into place.
In this book you will find, for the first time in one place, the complete guide to finding or making work you want incorporating tools and techniques from psychology and neuro-linguistic programming as well as from the author’s own multi award winning career transition consulting practice. This book details exactly how to write an awesome resume and provides tools and techniques for you to experience that are truly transformational.
Read this book for:
- Tools and techniques to help you maintain the most resourceful mindset – that help you attract hot leads, hidden jobs and work you want
- An understanding of what you haven’t tried yet – that will make all the difference
- Ideas, guidance and advice to help you find work you want
- Information to help you get started with your side hustle or entrepreneurial venture
- Detailed guidance that works – to develop an awesome resume and covering letter
- Insights into how to respond to: selection criteria; psychometric tests; the different kinds of interview; and assessment centres
- An overview of what actually does make work we want
- Transformation and renewed enthusiasm for your job search, whatever your age
- A personal action planner, at the back, to write down the top ten ideas from this book that you will explore and action.
In 2025 job seekers still struggle to find work they want. The pain of having applications ignored or rejected, time after time, is severe. You can be fully qualified and capable of doing the job – but not even get an interview. Potential entrepreneurs fail to get started on creating work they want. This is the time to get it right and Find a Way – or Make One – to Work You Want.
About The Author
Bridget Hogg is a British author, living in sunny South Australia, who wants to help you ‘Find a Way – or Make One’ – to improve your work, your life and your experience of life. She has found a way – or made one – to do some extraordinary things, from walking across burning hot coals (and finding an Esplanade rental in the middle of a rental crisis – twice) to extracting over $1 million (legally) from the Federal Australian Government (to run the highly successful, multi award winning ‘Next Steps’ job seeker project for job seekers aged 50+).
She works with organisations and individuals to create improvement and happiness – creating good places to work and psychological wellbeing. She helps individuals find work they want. She helps organisations find a way, or make one, to workplace wellbeing, to attract and retain talent and to support retrenched workers to find work they want.
Bridget writes books in her “Find a Way or Make One’ series to help workplaces and individuals make the improvements they seek.
She runs a business, Development at Work Australia, based in Adelaide, which creates workplace wellbeing and good places to work. She helps organisations to develop and implement their strategic attraction and retention plans – and helps retrenched workers find work they want, via her Outplacement Adelaide brand.Bridget has worked with hundreds of individuals in Australia to help them find work they want and won many awards (local, State and International).
She speaks on the topic ‘Find a Way or Make One.’ Her top three speaking topics are:
- ‘Find a Way or Make One to Attract and Retain Talent’
- ‘Find a Way or Make One to Work You Want’
- ‘Find a Way or Make One to Strengthen Wellbeing’
Bridget loves nothing better than the awe and joy of a beautiful beach, warm sunshine, puppies and good chocolate. You can achieve and experience what you choose and Bridget wants to help you find a way – or make one – to do just that.
Contact the author: support@developmentatwork.com.au
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Contact us on +61 8 8322 8455 or bridget@developmentatwork.com.au for help and advice about attraction, retention, managing the people aspects of change and creating workplace wellbeing.
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LinkedIn – Development at Work Australia.
LinkedIn – Outplacement Adelaide.
LinkedIn – Next Steps for Retrenched Workers.