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...
You’re graduating and want a resume writer

You’re graduating and want a resume writer

Be prepared before you call For many tertiary students, working with a resume writer is their first taste of non-negotiable deadlines and meeting the professional expectations of others. If the resume writer is any good (that’s a subject in itself), he or she will be...
Hard times but not forever

Hard times but not forever

With NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian locking down NSW for another two weeks, another recession is looming, which is the last thing anyone wants. We never really hauled ourselves out of the first one caused by the virus last year, but JobKeeper and JobSeeker helped take...
Resume writers target specific jobs

Resume writers target specific jobs

A while back, I wrote a blog about a minority of career changing prospective clients who believe resume writers can work miracles and magically get people jobs. Resume writers deal with specific jobs, not general career aspirations. They get insulted when I don’t take...