Job Hunting News

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...

In October 2025, Australian ‘real’ unemployment decreased 102,000 to 1,637,000 (down 0.5% to 10.3% of the workforce), but under-employment increased 147,000 to 1,646,000 (up 1.1% to 10.4%). In total 3.28 million Australians (20.7% of the workforce) were either...

I cans see how AI might change parts of the economy for the better, but much of the hype is over blown. Resume writers are in the front line but all I’ve seen so far is the garbage AI produces when it tries to write a resume or cover letter. Recruiters are busy...

Job hunting during a period of a pandemic and economic crisis isn't easy. But that doesn't mean you can't be successful. Back in 2020, America experienced a collective wake-up call as Covid-19 hit. I’ve taken this advice from a senior American recruiter published in...

As the first day of Summer approaches, what better way to start it than to call out the shonks who cut and paste slabs of meaningless text into resumes and charge their clients top dollar for it. Below are the first two paragraphs of a cover letter of a so-called...

We've all had toxic bosses but advice to report an Attila the Hun boss to HR int he story below somewhat problematic, but needed for forms sake. A far more potent combination is seeing a lawyer and combining that advice (legal action) with a news story. The most...

If you're a small business, the chances are you will have been hit by online Bots. They may be generated from Lanzhou and Singapore, which Google says are bots registering on Google Analytics. The recent spikes in traffic are probably inauthentic, non-human traffic...

Give a moment's silence for recruiters and employers who have to read this stuff in resumes and cover letters. I'm no friend of recruiters but these seems unusually harsh treatment. The examples are from the UK recruiters. Cover Letter "Why should you employ me? I...

Working from home rights cause the ignorant head of HR at the new merging university in Adelaide to fall on sword. One wonders how many other dragons lurk in HR? Slay them all. Below is from the Daily Mail. A university deputy vice-chancellor has resigned after facing...

Keep writing those cover letters and make 'em sing! The Sydney Morning Herald publishes letters from people who have workplace or job hunting questions. A workplace expert answers them. I have included my comments at the bottom in italics. Q. I have been applying for...

Welcome to the AI Bubble and beware... Two of the most recent investment bubbles were the dot-com bubble in the United States (1996-2000) and the housing bubbles that emerged around 2006 in different countries. Both ended in recession – the former relatively mild, and...

This is from Michael Page, a Sydney recruitment agency, and it’s the best article I’ve read on cover letters. It's long but worth your time to read. Open with a hook "The number one goal of your cover letter is to get a hiring manager interested in you, and what you...

The bizarre claim that ATS is rejecting resumes is fuelled by an industry of dodgy resume optimisation services, ATS-friendly template sellers and keyword-stuffing shonks. The blog below is from The Interview Guys. I also put some comment from a recruiter at the...