Hunting the Unique Value Proposition

Hunting the Unique Value Proposition

You as a ‘brand’ have features: you may have strong leadership skills, an MBA, a healthy amount of experience in the finance sector, etc. But a lot of other candidates have these features, too. To win great job offers you need to go deeper. What is unique about you?...
Age prejudice when you’re over 50

Age prejudice when you’re over 50

Very little has changed in 15 years – or at least since I’ve been following the plight of older and younger job seekers who suffer age prejudice. This edited story is from Anna Patty at the SMH. Wise Employment and others have been doing a lot of advertising online of...
The Age: Victorian lockdowns can’t go on like this

The Age: Victorian lockdowns can’t go on like this

I’ve edited this story in The Age for space. The full story is here. If the Victorian (and NSW) government(s) keep up these lockdowns, there will be very few jobs and bugger-all economy to return to. It’s rending the social fabric and the only reason...
Why do resume mills produce utter crap?

Why do resume mills produce utter crap?

At Republic Resumes we don’t charge top dollar for a resume but we’re not the cheapest in town. We do more than insert keywords from a job description, add achievements, update the layout and improve the grammar. We communicate your Unique Selling Proposition to the...
Resume mills: bottom feeders and shonks

Resume mills: bottom feeders and shonks

Resume mills are cheap and nasty. They flog their services online from Joondalup in WA to the Gold Coast. They call themselves Adelaide CV, Sydney CV or a similar combination to trick Google in to ranking them. The money they earn from the poor buggers who use them,...
Resume mills – time to take out the trash

Resume mills – time to take out the trash

Lets talk about resume mills because a couple state they operate in Adelaide but they’re based interstate (they’ve black hatted Google Maps). A resume mill  – usually a franchise – has a call centre and has hired some uni students or faceless people to flog...