Age prejudice like race prejudice

Age prejudice like race prejudice

Age prejudice is like race prejudice. People’s judgements are skin deep. Jacqueline Bradley describes feeling “demoralised, humiliated and … really quite embarrassed” about her failure to secure work after months of trying. “A very good friend of...
Robodebt a brutal attack on Australian citizens

Robodebt a brutal attack on Australian citizens

The criminality of the Robodebt scheme relied on venal politicians, a weaponised public service and a complicit media, to hound the weakest and poorest welfare recipients, some of whom killed themselves. Anyone who works in employment services knows the myth of the...
Professional mid-career changers

Professional mid-career changers

Aleah Espanta-Cunningham spent nearly three years working the radio booths for a high-profile breakfast FM radio show in Melbourne. But eventually burnout took its toll and the 41-year-old decided to throw it all in. She left a job that paid $80,000 a year to become...
AI and Adelaide resume writers

AI and Adelaide resume writers

I suppose this spam email I got may be the shape of things to come in professional and news writing: “I wanted to tell you about our new AI which is shaping the future of artificial intelligence writing. With a few words from you our AI can write video scripts, blog...
Poverty and living in cars

Poverty and living in cars

After two world wars, a Depression and umpteen recessions, in one of the richest country in the world, thousands of Australians are living in their vehicles. I wrote a gratis resume for a woman living in her car four months ago. She had a laptop and mobile phone. She...
More on cover letters

More on cover letters

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. If you want to go it alone, here are some tips. Match your cover letter to the...