WTF employment service provider payment suspensions?

WTF employment service provider payment suspensions?

What are greedy and hopeless employment service providers doing with the power to suspend unemployment payments? This story is from The Guardian. “Almost half of all people using employment services received threats to suspend their payments in the last quarter,...
Roy Morgan: unemployment and under-employment

Roy Morgan: unemployment and under-employment

In November 2025, Australian real (Morgan methodology) unemployment was virtually unchanged at 1,628,000 (10.2% of the workforce), but under-employment increased 63,000 to 1,709,000 (up 0.3% to 10.7%). Roy Morgan estimates the overall workforce size (which adds...
AI resumes to apply for 1000 jobs at one time

AI resumes to apply for 1000 jobs at one time

AI resume technology is up and running which allows job candidates to apply for 1000s jobs in the same field at the same time. Each resume will be ‘fine tuned’ so that it suits the specific criteria of the job. I’ve attached the link to a YouTube...
AI recruitment is a ‘race to the bottom’

AI recruitment is a ‘race to the bottom’

AI recruitment is the worst development in the profession since the introduction of psychometric testing. This story is from MaryLou Costa, Technology Reporter at the BBC. “It’s my first job interview in more than eight years. Even though it’s a...