Telstra Business Women’s Awards – Victorian Award Winner
Jane Hunt, the CEO of Fitted for Work was selected as a finalist in two categories of the Telstra Business Women’s Awards for Victoria. These awards are hotly contested with over 4,500 entries alone in Victoria. Jane was one of our finalists in the White Pages Community Government Award and one of just two in […]
Founders of Fitted for Work win Ernst & Young Award
Marion Webster and Renata Singer were the recipients of the Ernst and Young Social Entrepreneur of the Year Award for the Southern Region. The glittering awards night was held at the Forum Theatre in Melbourne where Marion graciously accepted the award and told the story of how Fitted for Work got off the ground in […]
Women of Morwell get fitted for work
ABC Gippsland report by Jem Wilson Walking into a job interview is an experience most of us dread, and it’s even harder when you don’t have the right clothes to wear. But an organisation in Morwell is helping women in the Latrobe Valley to get fitted for work and achieve financial independence. ABC Gippsland
Morwell Boutique Launches
Congratulations to Emma Birchall and her team of volunteers in Morwell for a wonderful launch celebration 31 March. There was great support from the local community at the event which was attended by about 25 people, from job service agencies, Centrelink, training organisations, local businesses such as Endota Spa, to women consulted in the research […]
Not your Everage sight in Flinders St…
31 March, 2011 – Suzanne Carbone – Postcode 3000 The Age Flinders street station attracts all sorts, but tomorrow under the clocks there’ll be a distinctive woman with a mauve wig and matching glasses waving gladioli at pedestrians. Renata Singer, co-founder of Fitted for Work, a charity that provides disadvantaged women with clothes for work, […]
7.30 Report – ABC Television
February 2007 – Lisa Whitehead Charity boutique offers makeover for job seekers KERRY O’BRIEN: They say clothes maketh the man, but in job interviews it seems they more than maketh the women. Research suggests women, more so than men, are judged by prospective employers on the way they dress. That’s a comment on the employers, […]
774 ABC Radio Melbourne
9 February, 2011 – Alan Brough Well dressed women help unemployed on road to security. Alan Brough talks with the managers of Fitted for Work Well heeled women help the unemployed put their best feet forward through the Fitted for Work program – a volunteer-based organisation offering business clothing, presentation and interview tips and generally […]
Marie Claire Magazine
September 2008 Cathy Gowdie Looking for a new job is never easy, but imagine what it feels like when you’ve been out of the workplace for months, or even years. Thanks to Fitted for Work, thousands of women are getting back to work in style. Sitting at her kitchen table as sunlight streamed through the […]
