Shopping for Christmas casual work

Shopping for Christmas casual work

If you want a Christmas casual job this year, now is the time to get your resume into shape. What are the things you like doing and the stores you like visiting? An important consideration is whether you enjoy speaking to customers or not. If you do, there’s a...
Bland, boring: AI ‘slop’ is ruining your job chances

Bland, boring: AI ‘slop’ is ruining your job chances

The story by Tim Duggan 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 resume!’ There’s a word that’s now...
Working from home an economic no-brainer

Working from home an economic no-brainer

Working from home is here to stay. As an Adelaide resume writer I was interested in this edited story from Matt Wade, senior economics writer at the Sydney Morning Herald. Employers and the Murdoch media are on the wrong side of history when it comes to working from...
Can I get sacked for a social media post?

Can I get sacked for a social media post?

This post on social media was in the Sydney Morning Herald recently and its is worth a read. Much depends on what you say and how widely it is read. If you broadside the boss and/or the businesses, you may expect trouble. “I enjoy posting on a couple of social media...
SA Health a burning poo bag

SA Health a burning poo bag

SA Health’s recruitment division is a burning poo bag with poorly written position descriptions, idiotic and useless selection criteria and many recruiters sit on their hands. They’re weak and cowardly. It’s regional and outback clinics are in disarray with the most...
Boomers not the retiring type

Boomers not the retiring type

This appeared in the SMH recently but it lacks more sources. It’s true though. The Boomers are hanging on to their jobs with all sorts of knock-on effects for younger people The boomers are prepared to keep on working into their 70s. KPMG research shows that the share...