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Some job hunters are not merely enhancing their education credentials but fabricating new employment histories, licenses and job references on their resumes. The rise in résumé fraud can be traced to unemployment and underemployment, coupled with tough competition in...

Working with a resume writer and approaching a promotion are very similar. A professional resume writer will ask you about your measurable and qualitative achievements in your current and previous job. When achievements are recorded and quantified, they carry far more...

Thinking of putting your brain in neutral and using AI to write your resume? Think again. Deloitte Australia stuffed up a major government report recently because the AI robot got it wrong by ‘hallucinating’. These so-called hallucinations are created as part of the...

I laughed bitterly when I read this ABC story about recruiter race prejudice in Adelaide. According to an UniSA study, black Africans are less likely to get hired unless they have white referees. Someone tell me this isn’t South Africa in the 1960s. One man, a refugee...

I’ve spent a lot of time - or rather too much time - in Canberra working in Federal politics, and the Australian Public Service (APS). I’m still trying to get warm after those winters! The APS has also suffered some serious negative PR after Robodebt but that was...

The four-day week is coming. The five-day working week once seemed unthinkable until business leaders proved the economics. This story is from the World Economic Forum. There are some dodgy claims about AI ramping up productivity but nonetheless, the labour force is...

Degrees ain't where it's. Take a year or two off. Get a job. Travel. Learn guitar. This is from Tim Duggan, Work columnist at the Sydney Morning Herald I’ve spent a lot of my working life looking at résumés. When I helped to build a growing media company over 15...

Let's talk about the cost of using an Adelaide resume writer. Some top line writing companies charge more than $1000 for a resume. We charge in the $200-$400 price range but a full executive CV will cost top dollar. Let’s do a quick ‘value for money’ calculation. A...

Kill resume robots and resume scanners! You’ve written the resume and it’s a killer. You’re perfect for the job. Education. Tick. Training. Tick. Referees. Tick. You’ve even got a short testimonial from the head of HR when you did a workplace for the company you’re...

The term ‘job hugging’ has emerged to describe a growing pattern: workers clinging to jobs they don’t particularly enjoy, largely because leaving feels like too much of a gamble. It’s the mirror image of job hopping. Instead of scanning the horizon for something new...

This advice about Christmas casual work from Grozdana Manalo, the Career Services Manager (Education) at the University of Sydney, is excellent. It appeared in The Conversation. The wisdom of Solomon here. “Getting casual work over summer, or a part-time job that you...

Massive university HECS debts, courses and service cuts, more and more lectures going online, fewer and fewer staff. Do some major diligence before committing yourself to a university degree. The research below is from Skye Predavec at The Australia Institute. “35...

The Coalition’s Robodebt scheme was illegal, flawed and grossly unfair and led to people committing suicide. So far no one in the former Coalition government or senior members of the APS have been prosecuted for their involvement. The SBS’s three-part docu-drama, The...

Adelaide has little trouble attracting international IT students, but getting a local job on graduation is another matter. They are locked into looking for IT work in Adelaide and there is very little. Many end up driving taxis or working in restaurants. This edited...

Young people not only need a job, if they're mature and motivated, they need to be challenged and given responsibility rather than getting the lunches. This story from Brendan Churchill, Senior Lecturer in Sociology at University of Melbourne was in The Conversation...

Although American investors cheered the Federal Reserve’s recent rate cut, like Australia, the economy is facing growing headwinds on consumer spending. Americans’ long-running spending boom is showing signs of faltering as consumers of all income levels scale back...

This story about the boomers not retiring was written by by Ross Gittens in the Sydney Morning Herald. The Boomers are here for both a long time and a good time. Keep in mind though, many have to keep working as they don't have the super. "As the great bulge of babies...

In August 2025, Australian ‘real’ unemployment increased 132,000 to 1,776,000 (up 0.8% to 11.1% of the workforce) while under-employment was virtually unchanged at 1,742,000 (unchanged at 10.9%). This is the first time over 1.7 million Australians have been unemployed...

The comments below are real and from Reddit. They’re four months old. These are why you need an Adelaide-based professional resume writer with a background in employment and training, working for you. Someone who knows the local job scene. “Had a national role,...

No degree? You've saved a packet. I took this from the Generation Australia website. As the director or Republic Resumes, who tries and gets people work is OK by me – as long as they’re not a dodgy private provider. I reckon these days, 70 per cent of degrees are a...