The importance of online personal branding

The importance of online personal branding

In the next three or four posts I will talk about personal online branding. Recruiters graze across LinkedIn and other job sites looking for the right fit. What they professionally and personally derive from your and other sites is your ‘brand’. Personal...
Labour hire agencies

Labour hire agencies

This is work completed at a site through a recruitment agency. This is referred to as ‘labour hire’ in the skilled and unskilled labour trade. Sometimes it’s called contract or temp work. In this arrangement, the agency becomes your employer and may...
Show achievements in your resume

Show achievements in your resume

I keep banging on about this because it’s so important. Recruiters and employers don’t much care for a list of duties. They want to know whether you were good at your job. Did you hit targets? Did you contribute new ideas? – if so, what were they?...
Is it great to connect? The many lies of LinkedIn

Is it great to connect? The many lies of LinkedIn

This story was written by Thomas Mitchell, the Sydney Morning Herald Culture reporter and it’s a beauty. I write and produce LinkedIn sites and they have sometimes got people work. When I say ‘sometimes’ I mean infrequently. Unless you have a unique...
Fake jobs online

Fake jobs online

Adelaide is the home of fake jobs. They are listed by unscrupulous recruiters to gather contact details from executives to sell clients too. It’s hard to tell how many fake jobs there are advertised in South Australia, because 80 per cent of employers and...
Number of Adelaide deadline breakers way too high

Number of Adelaide deadline breakers way too high

In a peak writing period we had a client who hired us to write his resume and cover letter for a job. Then he went on holiday and told us three hours before the first deadline, he couldn’t make it. I posted the second deadline and he email back and said he...