‘Forty is a fork in the road’ for a career change

‘Forty is a fork in the road’ for a career change

This story on a career change at 40 was in the SMH Careers section earlier in the year. It’s written by Kimberly Gillan and has a strong female focus. When I was 40, I’d had a gutful of working at a university and its staff. So I threw the career helm over and never...
Ever worried about being laid off?

Ever worried about being laid off?

This story on Laid Off by Abigail Covington was in the SMH and is very American but having a site dedicated to people who have been sacked, is more than worthy. Unemployment is under-estimated and under-reported in Australia. It would be worth starting something like...
Australian workplaces dire hell holes

Australian workplaces dire hell holes

The article below is from Tim Duggan, who writes for Fairfax/9. I think the second part of Horne’s quote is still true. Many Australian workplaces are insane hell holes. You call that a liberal democracy? “Sixty-one years ago, journalist Donald Horne first distilled...
AI written resumes

AI written resumes

Every now and then we get a prospective client who has used AI to write their resume. They come to us after it has failed time and time again. Below is an example and it’s a disaster. I’ve made comments in brackets why this resume will be spiked immediately. The main...
Get professional as time wasters are terminated

Get professional as time wasters are terminated

We terminate time wasters. Every now and then we get a client who says, after we have started work on their resume: “Put this on hold and I’ll get back to you later.” “This is hard. I have to think. I thought you’d do all the work.” A personal favourite is to tell us...