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No wage growth? That would be ‘anti-worker’ bias
The ABC’s Gareth Hutchens is my favourite reporter writing on unemployment, employment and the economy. This story is on wage growth, of which there has been bugger-all for more than ten years. “The Reserve Bank board has lifted interest rates for the seventh month in...
No more graduate or post graduate resumes
Republic Resumes will no longer write graduate or post graduate resumes, cover letters or LinkedIn sites. The business is returning to its roots of providing working class and white collar professional writing services. All of SA’s major universities and TAFE centres...
Always leave a phone message
We sometimes can’t answer the phone because we are writing or on another call. When people call and don’t leave a message – sometimes the same person calls three times a day without leaving a message - we don't call them back. If a prospective client can’t state their...
Creating a professional LinkedIn site
Republic Resumes writes LinkedIn sites after we have created the resume. LinkedIn is useful for mid-career professionals, rather than graduates, unless your field or discipline is in high demand. This story is from Forbes Magazine. It’s a succinct piece on the...
When to ask about salary in a job interview
I’m suspicious about employers who don’t list the salary in the job advertisement or position description. It often means they want to pay the new hire peanuts to do a technical job with a high workload. Even so, if you do get a job interview, sooner or later you are...
Wages worth less as inflation rises
Wages aren't rising as quickly as inflation (7.2 per cent), which means they’re falling. Yet you won’t get any finance journalists or analysts stating this because they are shackled to the neo-liberal economic paradigm, which should have died back in 2007/2008. In the...
Internship cover letters
We don’t work on graduate employment collateral any more but this his post from Alison Doyle, an American employment specialist and expert, is very good. She writes about internship cover letters. It might help some applicants out. Your cover letter should be tailored...
Writing killer cover letters
At Republic Resumes, we use cover letters as a carrot to drive employers to read the resume. A well-written cover letter can boost your chances of landing an interview. A cover letter and resume are designed to complement each other. While a resume should include...
Job hunting migrants with degrees get shafted
The story below is from the ABC but I’ve added my ten cents worth. Dr Niazai is a 35-year-old Afghan-born Melburnian and an expert in forest ecology and climate change, with a master's degree and a PhD from Kyoto University in Japan. He has headed projects for the...
Testimonials show we go to work for you
When I started Republic Resumes, I wanted to use my business and political knowledge and professional writing skills to get people in Adelaide short-listed for work and to land jobs. We are achieving my aim, one client at a time. Here are some recent testimonials from...
Republic closed until 26 October
Republic is closed until Wednesday, 26 October. Myself and the other writers are uncontactable. Congratulations to former clients Paul and Denise, who found jobs last week. Prospective clients need a virus-free laptop/desktop and Word. Note we terminate client jobs...
Better than home from work
I was advocating that more people should work from home seven years ago but HR people were incensed. Now it has come to pass. Before the virus disrupted our lives, only 8 per cent of Australians regularly worked at home. That number has jumped to about 40 per cent at...
Why don’t you write selection criteria?
Once upon a time, when dinosaurs ruled the earth, we wrote government and NGO selection criteria. We charged $40.00 per criteria. We didn’t write many in Adelaide because of the price. They were a lot of work and I had some ethical issues with them. I stopped writing...
Deadline breakers need not apply
Everyone has an excuse for breaking deadlines. The dog died. Car accident. Sick uncle. Dog ate it (same dog). Computer failure. Forgot to save. Wedding anniversary. Alien invasion. I had a client recently who said the resume deadline 'fell off his radar'. We can...
What happened to the Holden workers?
It’s five years since the last locally made Commodore rolled off the production line in Elizabeth. New research shows former Holden employees have struggled to find secure work since the shutdown. One-third of former employees retired, one-third have struggled to find...
Government drops standards for migrants intake
In a staggering return to the bad old days of the Howard Government, the federal government has made it easier for GPs, teachers, early educators and aged-care nurses with poor English, with little experience and lower qualifications, to apply for work in Australia....
Skills shortage a farrago of truth and spin
Check out the link below. The National Skills Commission says the nation is facing a "staggering" skills shortage and reckons occupation shortages doubled in 2022 as the labour market tightened....
Workforce Australia scheme a cruel joke
Labor MP Julian Hill - who in opposition supported the Workforce Australia scheme - says privatisation has failed to prepare disadvantaged jobseekers for work and made others less employable by demeaning them, according to an article in The Guardian. Employment...
Avoid the retirement void and update the resume
Retirement isn’t all it’s cracked up to be for some. When I started Republic Resumes in Adelaide about 10 per cent of my clients were retirees wanting to work part time or casually. I focused on their interests and targeted their resumes to new careers. The story...
When enquiries lose the plot
It could be the temper of the times or generational differences but we’ve had a few enquiries ‘lose the plot’ because we’ve knocked them back. They think we’re awful people because we didn’t take them on as clients. We’re recruiters, journalists and professional...
Resumes that go to work for you
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