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I write a lot of career change resumes and transferable skills are vital. Technology is replacing many aspects of work with new opportunities and roles for expanding industries. Which is good news for some and bad for others. If you’re in administration, you might...

Strong resume summaries are crucial for getting short-listed. I’ve included a few of mine below. Crane driver Demonstrates 12 years of safe industrial crane operational experience in construction, mining and heavy industryenvironments. Works as a Rigger/Crane Operator...

“I have recently discovered I am pregnant and at the same time, I am also applying for a new job. I don’t know when to tell my future employers I am having a baby and worry that if I do tell them, I won’t get the job. What should I do?” The above question was posed in...

There are a number of forces hitting small businesses in Adelaide. People are slashing discretionary spending, there are massive rises in rent and food, hidden unemployment and bloody toxic algae on the beaches. Now Google AI is muscling on businesses which use...

Let's look at job ads. One of the most demoralising aspects of job hunting isn't just the insufferable recruiters or the flawed interviews; it's also the tiresome process of browsing job advertisements, many of which are questionable at best and discriminatory at...

You might not think an Adelaide resume writer cares much about AI. So far all I’m seeing is an avalanche of AI slop. Even so, in the future it will pay an important part, especially in medicine. But that’s not the main problem. There’s an insane amount of money being...

There are a lot of dodgy online resume writers in Australia and Adelaide has its fair share. A couple are based in Melbourne, one is in Tasmania and the other – if you can believe this – is in Pakistan! Republic Resumes gets its clients short-listed for work. “Malcolm...

You're young, don’t have a posh surname and didn’t go to a private school and your Dad isn’t an investment banker. How do you get a job in Adelaide? Here are a few tips. If you want your resume written in partnership with me, you know what to do. But there are other...

Rent prices have risen to more than $700 per week and renters on average are paying extra $204 per week compared to five years ago – an increase of nearly 44 per cent as vacancy rates have bottomed out. Roughly one in three Australian households rent their home and...

Some job hunters are not merely enhancing their education credentials but fabricating new employment histories, licenses and job references on their resumes. The rise in résumé fraud can be traced to unemployment and underemployment, coupled with tough competition in...

Working with a resume writer and approaching a promotion are very similar. A professional resume writer will ask you about your measurable and qualitative achievements in your current and previous job. When achievements are recorded and quantified, they carry far more...

Thinking of putting your brain in neutral and using AI to write your resume? Think again. Deloitte Australia stuffed up a major government report recently because the AI robot got it wrong by ‘hallucinating’. These so-called hallucinations are created as part of the...

I laughed bitterly when I read this ABC story about recruiter race prejudice in Adelaide. According to an UniSA study, black Africans are less likely to get hired unless they have white referees. Someone tell me this isn’t South Africa in the 1960s. One man, a refugee...

I’ve spent a lot of time - or rather too much time - in Canberra working in Federal politics, and the Australian Public Service (APS). I’m still trying to get warm after those winters! The APS has also suffered some serious negative PR after Robodebt but that was...

The four-day week is coming. The five-day working week once seemed unthinkable until business leaders proved the economics. This story is from the World Economic Forum. There are some dodgy claims about AI ramping up productivity but nonetheless, the labour force is...

Degrees ain't where it's. Take a year or two off. Get a job. Travel. Learn guitar. This is from Tim Duggan, Work columnist at the Sydney Morning Herald I’ve spent a lot of my working life looking at résumés. When I helped to build a growing media company over 15...

Let's talk about the cost of using an Adelaide resume writer. Some top line writing companies charge more than $1000 for a resume. We charge in the $200-$400 price range but a full executive CV will cost top dollar. Let’s do a quick ‘value for money’ calculation. A...

Kill resume robots and resume scanners! You’ve written the resume and it’s a killer. You’re perfect for the job. Education. Tick. Training. Tick. Referees. Tick. You’ve even got a short testimonial from the head of HR when you did a workplace for the company you’re...

The term ‘job hugging’ has emerged to describe a growing pattern: workers clinging to jobs they don’t particularly enjoy, largely because leaving feels like too much of a gamble. It’s the mirror image of job hopping. Instead of scanning the horizon for something new...

This advice about Christmas casual work from Grozdana Manalo, the Career Services Manager (Education) at the University of Sydney, is excellent. It appeared in The Conversation. The wisdom of Solomon here. “Getting casual work over summer, or a part-time job that you...