Resume mills rort innocent job seekers

Resume mills rort innocent job seekers

Resume mills flog their putrid services online from Joondalup in WA to the Gold Coast. They call themselves Adelaide CV or Resume Adelaide or a similar combination, to trick Google in to ranking them. I hate them and report them to job seekers and recruiters. One...
Resume mills rort innocent job seekers

Death to the scam resume copy and pasters

Adelaide is infected with dodgy resume writer ‘Copy and Pasters’. Use these shonks and you’ll burn $100 notes. Below is a real life example. The ‘resume writer’ has tried to build a career history. They’ve used the ‘ing’ verb form – the present participle – at...
Resume mills rort innocent job seekers

Time to take out the trash

Lets talk about resume mills because there is one which states it operates in of Adelaide but is 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...
No time for losers and timewasters

No time for losers and timewasters

I write a lot of resumes and cover letters and in busy times, a couple of helpers do the restructuring, formatting and proofing. I do other writing as well. I’ve changed our terms and conditions to eliminate time wasters and to bill them. These are clients who...
Video pitches to replace resumes?

Video pitches to replace resumes?

There’s a case if you’re young, pretty and handsome for video pitches for jobs. Don’t get me started on recruiter bias. Will they replace resumes? Maybe. The world of narrative is quickly disappearing. I’ve edited this story down. You can read the full story here....