Professional Resume writing services
Job Hunting News
Hard to get wages up if employers don’t train
Besides all of the flag waving by the banks and employer groups to let in more migrants, now is the time to put a hold on that for three years. For two decades, business people haven’t worried whether they’ll have enough skilled workers, so they haven’t put much...
Ageism – you’re too old to work
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. I gained invaluable insight in to methods to fight to notion that people are too old to work when I worked in...
Job hero beats training and employment service shonks
A job hero and goal kicker in the employment sector. Has Adelaide got anyone like her? As for JobMaker Hiring Credit Scheme, it’s a monumental fail. In one year, Vanessa Nieuwenhuizen found work for 150 people in and around Logan, one of Queensland's unemployment...
Dropping unemployment to fix wage stagnation
What’s that sound? It’s one million people on JobKeeper hitting the wall. Expect a massive slowdown in spending in April through to June 30. The Federal Government wants to get the rate of unemployment down to 4.5 per cent or lower (try 3 per cent) and induce wage...
Read the website before contacting us
About one quarter of people who email or call me, haven’t read the website first. Recruiters make a similar complaint. Applicants don’t read the job description. It’s a truth well acknowledged by most recruiters that due to their dodgy ethics, I have very little time...
Unconscionable interview questions
Jonathan Rivett in The Age asks, ‘What is the best way to deal with questions that are out of line in a job interview?’ If you live in Adelaide, you’ll know what I’m talking about. I’ve sat in job interviews where people have asked my sexual preferences, my political...
Nailing video interviews
I took this story about video job interviews from Digital Journal which has some interesting stories. The links are good too. The COVID-19 era has led a temporary (and in some cases more permanent) vacation of offices nationwide, which has stripped a human element...
‘Dobseeker’ hotline targets unemployed
As if bona fide job seekers don't have enough to worry about. The Morrison government’s new Employer Reporting Line or ‘Dobline’, allows employers to dob in jobseekers for rejecting employment offers and/or behaving badly in interviews, missing appointments or...
Anonymous resume applications reduces bias
Ages ago Germany conducted a study where eight major companies adopted ‘anonymous’ hiring practices for 12 months. Not one piece of personal or identification information was disclosed before the interview process. While the sample size was small, the researchers...
Select Committee into Job (in)Security
In same category as effectiveness of tits on a bill, a Select Senate Committee into Job Security is examining the state of insecure employment and workplace rights and conditions, across Australia. This is like investigating storm water damage after Noah beached his...
The copy and pasters (part 2)
This is the second part of an examination of the dodgy resume writer ‘Copy and Pasters’, who infect Adelaide’s professional writing community. To be honest, most don’t live in Adelaide but that’s another story. Below is a real life example. The resume writer here has...
Beware the dodgy resume ‘copy and paste’ shonks
This story is about the ‘Copy and Pasters’ who inhabit Adelaide’s resume writing community. To be honest, most don’t live in Adelaide. While that’s an issue, a much graver concern is the quality of the work they produce. They copy and paste the same text over and over...
Resume writer saves applicants money
I’m going to save you between $250-$500 because there are times when no professional resume writer in the world will help you get that special job. OK, so you’ve seen a job. It’s your dream job. You think, ‘I’ll hire a professional writer to help me. That way I’m sure...
Australian Government hints at saving Whyalla
The Australian government may provide finance to save the Whyalla steelworks owned by the British entrepreneur Sanjeev Gupta, whose business empire is facing a multibillion-dollar debt crisis. About 1,200 jobs are directly at risk and another 3000 will go in SA in the...
Gupta and Whyalla in fight of their lives
Republic Resumes in Adelaide is getting hit from workers in Whyalla, who fear for their jobs if Citibank breaks up the Australian empire of British billionaire Sanjeev Gupta. An application was lodged in the NSW Supreme Court on Tuesday to wind up the operations of...
Republic booked out for a week
I apologise to the prospective clients that I'm having to knock back because we are booked out. There has been a significant upswing in some sections of the job market in Adelaide and NSW, which has driven demand for our services. There has also been,...
PwC to create jobs in Adelaide
It’s difficult to remember that once upon a time Price Waterhouse used to be an accounting firm. Even so, this is good news for university students in Adelaide. Just check the nature of the work and read the fine print before signing up. “PwC Australia announced plans...
Professionalism: sorting the wheat from chaff
Even though I work online as a resume writer, I gain an insight in to clients and prospective clients quickly and they gain an insight in to my professional standards real quick. The first insight is those who don’t leave a message on the Republic mobile. This is a...
Goodbye JobKeeper, hullo dole
For a while JobKeeper created a more equal Australia. Goodbye to all that. The good news is job advertisements were up for February. The bad news is the sources which supply the job advertisement figures can be pretty dodgy. The bad news is that for every entry-level...
‘Adelaide’ resume business writing crap
In the last seven weeks I’ve had three very angry SA male clients working in heavy industry and the mining sector, complain bitterly about their experience at a ‘so called local’ dodgy resume writing franchise in 'Adelaide'. This franchise ranks high on Adelaide...
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.