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Stream Leader - Senior Principal Research Scientist, Geelong, Australia (June 29, 2006)



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Employee Workplace: CSIRO is federally funded government reseach organisation with over
6,000 employees. It is divided ... READ MORE

Salary & Compensation: over AUD $120K/year + 19% superannuation, with possibility for salary
sacrifice (tax minimalisation... READ MORE

Business Outlook: Future outlook will depend on many political decisions: federal
election, new CEO, new budget for 2... READ MORE

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Research Scientist, Canberra, Australia (June 19, 2006)



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Employee Workplace: Generlly good, with gradiually increasing pressure to seek external
funding and gradually inncreasi... READ MORE

Interview & Recruiting: My last interview with CSIRO waas in 1984 so probably no longer
relevant. READ MORE

Salary & Compensation: Package approx $115K (AUD)/yr, plus employers contribution to
Superannuation. 20 days paid leave/ye... READ MORE

Business Outlook: Generally thoughtful and strategic, as befits a strategic applied
research organisation. READ MORE

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Senior Principle Research Scientist, Adelaide, Australia (May 21, 2006)



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Employee Workplace: CSIRO is a 6,500-strong government science laboratory with a scope that
runs from agriculture to et... READ MORE

Interview & Recruiting: I was hired as a result of an approach I made to the organisation
(CSIRO) to one of its local senio... READ MORE

Salary & Compensation: AU$115,000 + 16% employer contributed superannuation with insurance
component. READ MORE

Business Outlook: CSIRO is trying to transform itself from a capability-based outlook to
a task-based outlook, taking... READ MORE

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Principal Research Scientist, Australia (February 1, 2006)



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Employee Workplace: CSIRO is a scientific research organisation that is chartered to
produce science that is of benefit... READ MORE

Interview & Recruiting: There was one round of interviews. The interview was friendly but the
questions were detailed (test... READ MORE

Salary & Compensation: $95K AUD per annum. 20 days leave per annum. Flex leave can be accrued.
Paternal/maternal and specia... READ MORE

Business Outlook: CSIRO is Australia's premier science agency. In recent years it has
lost its way somewhat, becoming... READ MORE

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Principal Research Scientist, Australia (June 16, 2005)



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Employee Workplace: Corporate culture: CSIRO has been going through something of an
identity crisis for the last two de... READ MORE

Interview & Recruiting: I was hired on the strength of 1 interview lasting just over an hour. I
was interviewed by the imme... READ MORE

Salary & Compensation: $102,272 Australian pa; package on top of that includes $25,000 employer
contribution to superanuati... READ MORE

Business Outlook: The overall outlook for the organisation is uncertain as there has been
a mood in government that i... READ MORE

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