Hard to get wages up if employers don’t train

Hard to get wages up if employers don’t train

Besides all of the flag waving by the banks and employer groups to let in more migrants, now is the time to put a hold on that for three years. For two decades, business people haven’t worried whether they’ll have enough skilled workers, so they haven’t put much...
Ageism – you’re too old to work

Ageism – you’re too old to work

I help clients fight age prejudice by employing the latest in resume writing and interview techniques. It ain’t easy but I’ve had some remarkable successes. I gained invaluable insight in to methods to fight to notion that people are too old to work when I worked in...
Dropping unemployment to fix wage stagnation

Dropping unemployment to fix wage stagnation

What’s that sound? It’s one million people on JobKeeper hitting the wall. Expect a massive slowdown in spending in April through to June 30. The Federal Government wants to get the rate of unemployment down to 4.5 per cent or lower (try 3 per cent) and induce wage...
Read the website before contacting us

Read the website before contacting us

About one quarter of people who email or call me, haven’t read the website first. Recruiters make a similar complaint. Applicants don’t read the job description. It’s a truth well acknowledged by most recruiters that due to their dodgy ethics, I have very little time...
Unconscionable interview questions

Unconscionable interview questions

Jonathan Rivett in The Age asks, ‘What is the best way to deal with questions that are out of line in a job interview?’ If you live in Adelaide, you’ll know what I’m talking about. I’ve sat in job interviews where people have asked my sexual preferences, my political...