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How important are Google reviews when you are hiring a resume writer to help you get a job? They are everything. What former clients say predicts the outcome of using that business. The Republic Resume drafting system is a proven winner. We get clients short-listed...

A slightly dodgy survey by the ComBank – ‘almost half?’ Really? Young people need to be aware of low job opportunities and petrol prices. Also the pull of family can be strong. But as a general idea, it’s a winner. “Almost half of Australians aged 18 to 29 are...

An AI-induced wave of disruption is tearing through Australia’s white-collar workforce, and not everyone has been lucky enough to get ahead of it like Rakeen. Most of the casualties have been in tech, which University of Sydney Business School Professor Clinton Free...

I was writing stories like this 20 years ago. Nothing has changed. Recruiters and employers are still biased. It's prejudice, pure and simple and runs deep in Australian hiring culture. The AHRI is part of the problem. This story appeared in the ABC and was written by...

Mass sackings in the IT industry are just the start. Declare war on AI now or lose your job. The story below - which is a bit soft - was written by Toby Walsh and published in the Sydney Morning Herald. Ten years ago, when I told people what I did – artificial...

This AI mass job losses story is from David Swan at the Sydney Morning Herald. "Billionaire chief executive Mike Cannon-Brookes fired 10 per cent of Atlassian’s total headcount over email on Thursday, axing around 1600 workers and prompting anger among its workforce...

I’ve spent a lot of my working life looking at résumés, especially from uni graduates. After scanning each résumé one by one, I soon developed a strategy to process them. First, I’d look for the candidate’s current role, measuring up their competence and...

A LinkedIn writer was just “invited” to complete a “short” writing test for a job application. The test: a 1,000‑word tax article an IG post a 200–300 word explainer That’s not a writing test. That’s unpaid work in the $2,000+ range. So I went back to the job post and...

This is from Malcolm Knox at the SMH. He nailed one of the main issues with AI. Jobs for young people will go. Young people may consider letting the petrol bombs fly. Listening to the AI assistant fail to solve my problem, I thought there’s another job I’m glad my...

AI arrives, there go the jobs. This is from the Sydney Morning Herald, written by David Swan. It was 1am when Natalie MacDonald’s phone lit up. The email’s subject line told her everything she needed to know before she’d read a word of it. After she had spent seven...

AI bites hard on jobs. Chief executive Zubin Appoo on Wednesday morning announced 2,000 redundancies over the next two years, as the Aussie tech giant pivots heavily towards artificial intelligence. Approached by news.com.au at the company’s Alexandria building that...

The order is out - kill the AI 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...

Fake jobs are everywhere. If it’s too good to be true, it is. Someone posing as a recruiter contacts you If you’ve created your profile on Indeed, recruiters are able to contact you through Indeed messaging, via text (SMS) or email. If you haven’t created a profile on...

Republic Resumes is busy updating mining resumes, as Santos plans to axe 10 per cent of its staff, after posting a hefty profit drop in 2025. Santo HQ is based in Adelaide. It will prioritise a review of its Australian integrated oil and gas portfolio this year and...

A couple of stories from the SMH which are relevant to resumes and resume writers. The first is age discrimination and the second is workplace bullying - a major reason why people leave their jobs. The writer is Kirstin Ferguson. Q. My job was made redundant, so I’m...

This story on attacking the homeless was from the ABC. Western Australia's homelessness minister has criticised "hostile" high-pitched noise devices installed to deter rough sleepers at an East Perth underpass. The devices emit a constant high-pitched ringing and were...

It’s not often that I break into print and complain about a client whose has lost the plot. This individual came to us wanting a resume updated and a cover letter. In 2018, they graduated with a degree in journalism. The problem was obvious. In the last eight years...

This story about class in Australia is from Malcolm Knox at the Sydney Morning Herald, one of the best writers in the country. If you are battling to get a job or to get ahead, you will know intimately what this story is about. Tim Winton called it the “C-word”....

The article below is from Tim Duggan, who writes for Fairfax/9. I think the second part of Horne’s quote is still true. Many Australian workplaces are insane hell holes. You call that a liberal democracy? “Sixty-one years ago, journalist Donald Horne first distilled...

JOB INTERVIEWS Here are some of the most common job interview questions along with the best way to answer them. "What are your biggest weaknesses?" Every candidate knows how to answer this question: Just pick a theoretical weakness and magically transform that flaw...