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Age prejudice when you’re over 50
Very little has changed in 15 years – or at least since I’ve been following the plight of older and younger job seekers who suffer age prejudice. This edited story is from Anna Patty at the SMH. Wise Employment and others have been doing a lot of advertising online of...
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 unemployment is...
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 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
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 their...
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
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...
Resume writers target specific jobs
A while back, I wrote a blog about a minority of career changing prospective clients who believe resume writers can work miracles and magically get people jobs. Resume writers deal with specific jobs, not general career aspirations. They get insulted when I don’t take...
Are you suffering middle-class pandemic under reporting?
I sometimes read economics columnist Jessica Irvine in The Age, but of late, it’s hard to consume any media without noticing one glaring fault: there’ s bugger-all coverage of the colossal human cost of the lockdowns. The billions of dollars of lost wages, lost...
Time running out for Whyalla Steelworks
You want to believe the best, that somehow Sanjeev Gupta’s GFG’s Liberty Primary Metals Australia (LPMA), will pull a rabbit out of a hat and refinance a new deal to cover its Greensill debt and save the Whyalla Steelworks. So far, no rabbits and no hats. Only the...
Resume rewriting boss from hell
We created a resume for a chap working in a contract position supervising WHS&E, for a large Adelaide company a while back. There were issues from a third party. His contract was coming to an end and he had an old template resume that was six pages long, going...
Financial black hole for Adelaide’s universities
As a resume writer and employment expert, I know the ban on international students is crippling Adelaide’s economy. The three public universities provide around 7000 jobs and by extension, provide another 15,000 jobs in real estate and hospitality. South Australian...
Avoid the retirement void and follow one’s passions
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. This story is...
Deadline breakers cut dead
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. We’ve heard them all. I once had a senior administrator who broke a deadline because he...
Inside the resume writer trade
When you ask a resume writer to produce a cover letter for a specific job in Adelaide, most will use generic blocks of text they have used thousands of times before. That’s why 90 per cent of non-directed, non-specific cover letters fail. If you want a cover letter,...
Long term unemployment growing
Long term unemployment is growing and the Covid restrictions and lockdowns are making it ten times worse. I sometimes do pro bono work for the long-term unemployed and their desperation is palpable and heart-rending. In April last year, before the mass lockdowns, a...
Guillotine falls as Adelaide Uni fights for survival
The University of Adelaide is in the midst of its greatest crisis since it was founded in 1874. Republic Resumes will run a campaign mid September to help prospective graduates find work. In the email to students last month, Vice Chancellor Høj announced that unless...
Lights! Camera! and the video job interview
Video job interviews are becoming more common due to the Covid-19 restrictions. Here are a few technical video tips to help steady those nerves. Preparing for a video interview Check your surroundings. Make sure the background is free from clutter and embarrassing...
Job ads up in SA – for now…
Job ads are up so it’s a good time to have a crack at the labour market. Compared to Pre-Covid figures, there were 78,200 job advertisements in July. Nationally, that’s 47.7 per cent up on July 2019. In SA, it’s up a whopping 68 per cent. That’s why I’m run off my...
No sympathy for dole ‘bludgers’
Empathy for the unemployed is not a vote-winner these days. This should be no surprise. Successive governments have carefully schooled Australians to harden their hearts against the unemployed, all the way back to the pitiful and grudging “susso” (sustenance) handouts...
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