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‘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...
We’re working on that website – honest!
Well folks, it's apology time. My brains trust of fellow writers (there's only three of us) wanted to put new pages up on the website in time for the end of JobKeeper (28 March). We've had a few technical issues but they will be sorted this week. I still write all of...
Doubts grow as we near JobKeeper cliff
As a resume writer and employment specialist in Adelaide and across Australia, I have deep reservations about ending JobKeeper. I’m not alone as there are strong concerns in Treasury, the Government and the Reserve Bank for the more than one million Australians still...
Nomadland and poverty in Australia
Some of the resumes and job strategy and attainment work I do are for unemployment people and some of these are 'nomads'. They're caught in a cycle going from contract to contract, from short term job to short term job. Some live in caravan parks and some in their...
Whyalla, Gupta, dodgy loans and jobs
This is an edited story I put up on LinkedIn and Facebook recently and it has attracted some interest. I worry deeply when companies ‘over reach’. It means job losses. I'm hoping Gupta can find bridging finance for his company. The previous owner of the Whyalla steel...
Good news – jobs numbers continue to climb
There’s no denying jobs are returning and that’s good news, especially for women. That partly explains why I haven’t had time to scratch myself. Australian employment surpassed all expectations to jump for a fifth consecutive month in February, while the jobless rate...
Resumes writers beware: JobKeeper and JobSeeker to end
Cutting subsidies in the middle of a massive recession is insane. You’ll hear the economy change down gears from Perth to Cairns. JobKeeper will end on 28 March The JobKeeper numbers are falling but as of 14 February, about 1.54 million 'employees' still collected...
Robots judge our resumes and lives
Algorithms rather than merit and experience, decide which applications reach human managers’ eyes. They cull people with unusual work histories or who lack university or TAFE qualifications. Many private employers still ask for a résumé and cover letter, but...
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