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Responding to emails and meeting deadlines
We sometimes get prospective clients who don’t reply to our emails within 24 hours. They either won’t send their old resume or respond to an assessment and quote. The reasons are various but it often means they’re not in a hurry or they don’t regularly check their...
Even more five star Google reviews
We do well with Google reviews, but unfortunately the five star review below from a recent customer, never went up. Google thought it was spam. That’s life. “You can learn a lot from reading how someone writes on their website and this proved to be true working with...
Deadlines: sorting the wheat from the chaff
I gain an insight in to clients and prospective clients quickly and they gain an insight in to my high standards too. The first insight is those who don’t leave a message on the Republic mobile. This is a modern phenomenon. We can’t always answer the phone because...
Age prejudice – you’re too old
As an Adelaide resume writer, 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. Such as: “After many unsuccessful applications I contacted Malcolm to assist in...
The ASIO resume blog reply
Yesterday’s blog is one of my all-time favourites because it tells so much about the resume writing industry and unfortunately, some clients. ASIO – Australia’s frontline intelligence service – really wants applicants to write their own resume and selection criteria....
VCAT backed lawyer for outsourced resumé for ASIO job
My all-time favourite resume writer story. This is from The Age in 2018. I will make comments on it in the next blog. “A lawyer who paid an online resumé company $600 to write her a job application for Australia's spy agency, has successfully sued the business after...
Adelaide client lands job in Brisbane
TP (no names with this one) worked in Adelaide and came to me with a challenge. She saw a Biotechnician job in Brisbane she wanted to apply for. Getting a job interstate is hard because employers tend to favour local candidates. First, I upgraded her resume so that it...
Best months to job hunt
As a resume writer, I know the number of job vacancies in Australia is fairly steady for most of the year but there are greater opportunities in certain months. Analysis by global jobs site Indeed of Australian searches shows there are certain times of the year where...
Helping journalism graduates get a job
I still write journalism and opinion pieces from time to time. I worked at AAP and for AdNews. I’m always happy when I help graduate journalism students find a job, as it’s a highly competitive field. Below is an update from a young journalism graduate’s Dad. I helped...
When to ask about salary in a job interview
I’m suspicious about employers who don’t give some idea of the salary in the job advertisement or position description. It often means they want to pay the new hire peanuts to do a highly technical job with a colossal workload. Even so, if you do get a job interview,...
South Australians forced to camp in tents
As an Adelaide resume writer, I’m most interested in the state of the national and local economy. This story is sourced from the ABC. I’ve edited it for length. When you’ve got single mothers sleeping in tents in caravan parks, you know something is very wrong....
Big changes to Centrelink mutual obligations
Life for the 792,000 people on Centrelink payments and those on JobSeeker living on $48 per day – which is below the poverty line – is about to get much more difficult, as one punitive system is replaced by another. On 4 July, Jobactive —the Australian government's...
Another Adelaide Republic Resumes client gets a job
At Republic Resumes, we randomly pick a number of clients who we ‘follow’ to see how they go with the job hunt. We check in by email nine or 18 months after we’ve written their resume and cover letter. I liked Akshay’s get up and go immediately. He was a recent Master...
Thought about jobs in regional Queensland?
Ballooning job vacancies in regional Australia reveal the optimism that is driving growth outside capital cities. The latest data from the Regional Australia Institute shows that there were 84,600 regional job vacancies in April 2022 – up nearly a quarter (24.8%)...
Law to help workers get unpaid wages back
Workers underpaid by employers will have a better chance of getting money owed to them after a "ground breaking" court decision. This is good news for casual workers in the accommodation and hospitality industry, where under paying wages has become a business...
Testimonials flow for Adelaide’s Republic Resumes
What’s the point of helping people gets jobs if they don’t get a job, supply feedback or testimonials? When I started Republic Resumes, I wanted to use my professional writing and editing skills to get people in Adelaide short-listed for work and to land jobs. Here...
Retailers brace for tougher times as spending dries up
There’s still time to find a job in retail in Adelaide but beware, the retail sector is preparing for a tough period ahead as rising inflation and weak consumer confidence threaten to send spending plummeting. Last week market analysts cautioned their clients that the...
Women finding part-time work
It is usually women who are in non-standard employment such as part-time work, often to meet the demands of children, sick parents or partners needing extra care. It appears women put more emphasis on job flexibility than men, an explanation for why it is hard for...
No wage shown on job ads? Forget applying
The rise of job advertisements without the salary is a worrying trend. Working in partnership with a woman with deep experience caring for animals in South Australia, we created a cracking resume and cover letter for a management job at a large pet and farm provisions...
Fake job scams
When job hunting we don’t think twice about handing over personal information. Seek.com.au is full of fake job ads, where your personal information is being sold by fake-job advertisers to companies who then try and talk you into doing a “free” training course, to get...
Resumes that go to work for you
I build expert resumes, cover letters and LinkedIn profiles, which unleash an unbeatable business case to promote you as a ‘must have’ asset to an employer.