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I build unique and highly successful resumes, targeted cover letters and LinkedIn sites, which aim to get you short-listed for new jobs in Adelaide and Sydney. I work in partnership with you and each product is individually crafted. I don’t use AI or copy and paste...

Inappropriate Gmail addresses such as tosser47@gmail.com or drunkskunk@gmail.com sometimes make me laugh. Recruiters get a giggle too but question the applicants professionalism. I tell people to get a professional email address. The good news is Google may allow...

About time we called out shonky employers looking to treat graduates as wage slaves. A position requiring more than three years of experience and a degree sparked outrage after being shared online. The ad was originally posted by a Melbourne-based call centre...

Here are some ideas how to land that new job in 2026. Put the building blocks in place This is about exploring your options then narrowing down what you really want. It can help to make a list of non-negotiables: the things you decide a job must involve for you to say...

Your LinkedIn profile is a professional landing page for you to manage your personal brand. A LinkedIn profile is a great way for you to let people know who you are, what you stand for, and what you’re interested in. Your profile will be your personal storyboard where...

What are greedy and hopeless employment service providers doing with the power to suspend unemployment payments? This story is from The Guardian. "Almost half of all people using employment services received threats to suspend their payments in the last quarter, new...

Undergraduates should do an internship, volunteer and/or a major study We don’t write many undergraduate resumes. The reasons are varied but in the main it comes down to money. We charge around $200-$250.00 to write or upgrade a resume and for most graduates, that’s a...

In November 2025, Australian real (Morgan methodology) unemployment was virtually unchanged at 1,628,000 (10.2% of the workforce), but under-employment increased 63,000 to 1,709,000 (up 0.3% to 10.7%). Roy Morgan estimates the overall workforce size (which adds...

AI resume technology is up and running which allows job candidates to apply for 1000s jobs in the same field at the same time. Each resume will be 'fine tuned' so that it suits the specific criteria of the job. I've attached the link to a YouTube clips which runs...

AI recruitment is the worst development in the profession since the introduction of psychometric testing. This story is from MaryLou Costa, Technology Reporter at the BBC. "It's my first job interview in more than eight years. Even though it's a video interview, I'm...

The story below was in the Sydney Morning Herald recently. I’ve started a small adjunct business to Republic rewriting AI generated resume ‘slop’. ‘Would you please help me’, clients plead. ‘I let a robot write my career history!’ There’s a word that’s now starting to...

Retirement isn’t all it’s cracked up to be for some. When I started Republic Resumes in Adelaide in 2007, about 10 per cent of my clients were retirees wanting to work part time or casually. There’s a lot more now. This story is from the ABC. Jennie Deneefe didn't...

Many job seekers think December is a poor time to look for work. WRONG. In December, people take stock of their careers, evaluate their goals, and often decide it’s time for a change. Job seekers who apply in December are typically serious and motivated - they’re not...

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...

If you've got one of these generic letters below created by a shonky Adelaide Resume writing business, delete it. It's useless. It's a string of meaningless sentences with shocking grammar. There's no evidence of achievements. No proof. Recruiters and employers will...

One of the weirdest parts of being a resume writer is a client’s fear, that a new prospective employer will find out they hired a writer to help write their employment documents. They make all sorts of excuses for not leaving a Google review. This is not edifying,...

There's an urban rumour - which has spread across the western world - that the ATS screens and knocks out resumes if they don't conform to a specific format. There are a few dodgy recruitment software companies such as Expr3ss! and Job Hero, who do set their filters...

This review by David Shariatmadari on AI was in There Guardian a few months ago (Mon 22 Sep 2025). Worth a read while using ChatGPT to write a crap resume which will hit the spike as soon as you send it. I'm not so doom and gloom but I can see real problems with AI...

We don’t get many of these unprofessional types. A prospective client sent us his resume as a PDF and wanted a review. He’s not getting short-listed for jobs. We’re happy to provide a short assessment of the resume but we don’t provide a full and comprehensive review...

Applying for a job with a selection criteria? Read on. I often get requests to help a client target a specific position. In a few cases, the client hasn’t looked or doesn’t realise they don’t have the ESSENTIAL experience or a qualification, for a key part of the...