The Age: Victorian lockdowns can’t go on like this

The Age: Victorian lockdowns can’t go on like this

I’ve edited this story in The Age for space. The full story is here. If the Victorian (and NSW) government(s) keep up these lockdowns, there will be very few jobs and bugger-all economy to return to. It’s rending the social fabric and the only reason...
Why do resume mills produce utter crap?

Why do resume mills produce utter crap?

At Republic Resumes we don’t charge top dollar for a resume but we’re not the cheapest in town. We do more than insert keywords from a job description, add achievements, update the layout and improve the grammar. We communicate your Unique Selling Proposition to the...
Resume mills: bottom feeders and shonks

Resume mills: bottom feeders and shonks

Resume mills are cheap and nasty. They flog their services online from Joondalup in WA to the Gold Coast. They call themselves Adelaide CV, Sydney CV or a similar combination to trick Google in to ranking them. The money they earn from the poor buggers who use them,...
Resume mills – time to take out the trash

Resume mills – time to take out the trash

Lets talk about resume mills because a couple state they operate in Adelaide but they’re based interstate (they’ve black hatted Google Maps). A resume mill  – usually a franchise – has a call centre and has hired some uni students or faceless people to flog...
You’re graduating and want a resume writer

You’re graduating and want a resume writer

Be prepared before you call For many tertiary students, working with a resume writer is their first taste of non-negotiable deadlines and meeting the professional expectations of others. If the resume writer is any good (that’s a subject in itself), he or she will be...
Hard times but not forever

Hard times but not forever

With NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian locking down NSW for another two weeks, another recession is looming, which is the last thing anyone wants. We never really hauled ourselves out of the first one caused by the virus last year, but JobKeeper and JobSeeker helped take...