Issues for the long-term unemployed

Issues for the long-term unemployed

Patty took a package from the SA public service and hasn’t worked for over two years. She was an executive assistant and is now long term unemployed. She sent her old resume to me. It was full of cut and paste duties and needed reformatting and restructuring as...
No labour shortage

No labour shortage

As an Adelaide resume writer, I have strong and evidence based research on the labour market. It’s gratifying to have someone in a senior research position agree with me about so-called labour shortages. Professor John Buchanan, a labour economist at the University of...
Cover letters that work

Cover letters that work

I enjoy writing targeted cover letters in partnership with clients (after we’ve written the resume). Every paragraph is a ‘punchy’ selling point, which goes to the heart of the application. Don’t use the same cover letter for different job applications. This is where...
LinkedIn has jumped the shark

LinkedIn has jumped the shark

This story on LinkedIn was in the SMH, written by Kate Halfpenny. “Is there anything more draining than the notifications that one person has viewed your profile, you have four invitations (mine today included one to congratulate a fellow called George K who...