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Senior Aerodrome Reporting Officer – Morton Bay – Shonky job
Sometimes I can pick shonky jobs but it's not always easy to know what's going on behind the scenes. By shonky, I mean either the job doesn't exist, the recruitment company is simply harvesting resumes or the position has already been filled by an inside candidate and...
Women bear the brunt as economy crumbles
About 60 per cent of our resume clients are women. We are seeing a rapid rise in the number of young women using our services, in large part due to the theme of this story. Women are bearing the brunt of the Covid-19 economic downturn as Melbourne turns in to a ghost...
Young people’s careers smashed by COVID-19
At Republic Resumes, about 50 per cent of my clients are 30 years and under. Many come from Adelaide, Wollongong and south Sydney. Full time employment wasn’t looking that good for young people before Covid-19. Now it’s dire. A recent Productivity Commission report -...
Workplace insecurity aids spread of Covid-19
We were urged to welcome insecure work as a liberation from the old industrial order. Now the chickens are coming home to roost. Of the 3,810 Victorians who tested positive for coronavirus over the past three weeks, 89 per cent kept working despite their early...
Tough conversations as businesses face biggest test
The last thing resume writers want to see is banks and landlords having tough conversations with their clients or tenants. The result will be more people scrounging for work. The federal government will extend the $70 billion JobKeeper scheme to March 30. But with new...
Building a second career
Every now and then it’s good to look back over one’s career, especially if you're thinking of starting a new career. I’ve given some information on me in the blog here. There’s a lot of politics, media and teaching work. What I don’t include in my resume is the...
Top job boards for professional job hunters
Most of our clients at Republic Resumes are looking for a new job. The first place to look is online job boards. Here are some inside tips on how to find and use the top three job boards: Seek, JobSearch and CareerOne. Seek Seek is one of the most popular online job...
Changes to JobKeeper and JobSeeker payments
The changes to JobKeeper are predicated on the Prime Minister’s belief that two million Australians will be back in work after Christmas. Sure ... and Marilyn Monroe sang me Happy Birthday last week. But it’s much better than nothing. Many will go on to JobSeeker by...
The economy can’t recover until the virus is gone
I’m a fan of Ross Gittins of the SMH. I have included his edited story in the blog below. As a resume writer and employment expert, I am flat out writing resumes and cover letters for clients who have lost their jobs. There’s no rest. There are simply are not enough...
Deadline breakers need not apply
Everyone has an excuse for breaking our deadlines. The dog died. Car accident. Sick uncle. Dog ate it. Computer failure. Forgot to save. Wedding anniversary. Alien invasion. We’ve heard them all … or the classic, “I’ve changed my mind.” The best excuse I heard was a...
Workers pay price as gig economy avoids regulations
I’ve lost count how many times I’ve had a young person working in a warehouse writing code, approach me for help to get a ‘real’ job. Ditto young people delivering food. The media hails these people as ‘entrepreneurs’. Rubbish. They work for pittance and without a...
Training providers 4. Jobs 0
I should be more grateful to a government for funding the new national training initiative, JobTrainer. For the last 40 years, governments of all hues have forgotten the unemployed and the underemployed. The recent announcement of the $2 billion program, will merely...
Another happy resume customer
Dave lives in the Illawarra and has a military background. I could see something right away in the old resume he sent to be updated. His skills, although ill-defined, were deep and comprehensive. It took four drafts to pull his resume in to commercial shape. He had...
Disillusioned generation as record 37 per cent of young people are under-utilised
When I first started helping people find work many years ago, almost all of my clients were under 30. Today, we are witnessing an unemployment and underemployment tragedy unfolding for young people across Australia. The two most recent official recessions we have...
Unemployment figures undercount true number
The change in the ABS definition of full employment in the 1970s to a level that kept a lid on inflation (i.e. on wages and prices), had major ramifications on how we measure unemployment today. This great story is from Gareth Hitchens at the ABC Once upon a time,...
Persistence pays in tough times
While hiring may slow, companies are still employing talent to solve frustrating challenges created by the Coronavirus. Make sure your resume reflects your problem solving capabilities and achievements. Stop playing the numbers game Contrary to what everyone else...
Resume tips to make you stand out
Here are a few hints on how to upgrade your resume so that it's easy to read, summarises your accomplishments and skills, and highlights relevant experience. Look for keywords in the job postings The best place to start when preparing to write a resume is to carefully...
Another Republic Resumes success story
Josh sent his old resume to me three weeks ago. He had just finished his security guard qualifications in Adelaide and he wanted to work in the field. Most of his previous work had been as an office cleaner and as a labourer. He had some good current tickets such as a...
June job ads: good news and bad
The good news for job hunters and resume writers is that job ads were up a record 42 per cent in June. But were still down 44.6 per cent on June last year, according to AAP, the last trusted news source in Australia. Australian job advertisements jumped when much of...
Applying for ASIO or ADF? Write your own documents
Every now and then prospective clients want us to write applications, resumes or selection criteria (which we don’t write anyway) for the Australian Federal Police, ASIO or one of the secret communication agencies. We don’t write them because they must be the...
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.