Morgan: August unemployment increased 0.8% to 11.1%

Morgan: August unemployment increased 0.8% to 11.1%

In August 2025, Australian ‘real’ unemployment increased 132,000 to 1,776,000 (up 0.8% to 11.1% of the workforce) while under-employment was virtually unchanged at 1,742,000 (unchanged at 10.9%). This is the first time over 1.7 million Australians have been unemployed...
OMG! The Adelaide job scene

OMG! The Adelaide job scene

The comments below are real and from Reddit. They’re four months old. These are why you need an Adelaide-based professional resume writer with a background in employment and training, working for you. Someone who knows the local job scene. “Had a national role,...
How to find a great job without a degree

How to find a great job without a degree

No degree? You’ve saved a packet. I took this from the Generation Australia website. As the director or Republic Resumes, who tries and gets people work is OK by me – as long as they’re not a dodgy private provider. I reckon these days, 70 per cent of degrees...
Shopping for Christmas casual work

Shopping for Christmas casual work

If you want a Christmas casual job this year, now is the time to get your resume into shape. What are the things you like doing and the stores you like visiting? An important consideration is whether you enjoy speaking to customers or not. If you do, there’s a...
Bland, boring: AI ‘slop’ is ruining your job chances

Bland, boring: AI ‘slop’ is ruining your job chances

The story by Tim Duggan below was in the Sydney Morning Herald recently. I’ve started a small adjunct business to Republic rewriting AI generated resume ‘slop’. ‘Would you please help me’, clients plead. ‘I let a robot write my resume!’ There’s a word that’s now...
Working from home an economic no-brainer

Working from home an economic no-brainer

Working from home is here to stay. As an Adelaide resume writer I was interested in this edited story from Matt Wade, senior economics writer at the Sydney Morning Herald. Employers and the Murdoch media are on the wrong side of history when it comes to working from...