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Google reviews tell Republic’s story
As a resume writer, if you haven’t got more than 40 Google reviews, you’re not a player. You’re a spectator. Customer reviews and testimonials tell us we’re providing a good and valued service. Every resume has to be crafted. They must be as individual as the...
Older workers in southern Victoria defy ageism
I know I bang on about employing older workers, so here's another good news story from the ABC. Along the waterfront in Queenscliff on Victoria's Bellarine Peninsula, is a restaurant where customers are more likely to be served by someone over 60, than someone in...
Building a better life before burnout
As a professional resume writer, whether writing resumes, writing features and backgrounders, I hear stories of burn out every week. People working too hard or working with organisational bullies and psychopaths. A study by the World Health Organisation and the...
Cost analysis using resume writers
A professional resume writer – not a back yard shonk - will increase your chances of being short-listed by around 30 percent. We charge in the $200-$400 price range but a full executive CV will cost top dollar. Let’s say the job pays $80,000 per annum and a resume...
Hints when using a resume writer
RESUMES People often ask me what’s the secret of a good resume. Here it is ….. (drum roll)…State what you did in the job point by point and against each point, state what you achieved. Achievements can be measured as statistics, or in dollars, ratios – all sorts of...
Race to the bottom
You might think this post has got nothing to do with professional writing, job hunting or resumes. But hold your horses. Until we put a stop to them (for other reasons), we were inundated with international and local university and TAFE graduates who couldn’t write....
The Whacker Awards for 2022
In the spirit of Choice magazine’s Shonky Awards, I have listed our Whacker Awards for when prospective clients or clients go feral. Each client listed below takes out the Whacker for displaying the more curious aspects of human nature. You’ll understand why employers...
No wage growth? That would be ‘anti-worker’ bias
The ABC’s Gareth Hutchens is my favourite reporter writing on unemployment, employment and the economy. This story is on wage growth, of which there has been bugger-all for more than ten years. “The Reserve Bank board has lifted interest rates for the seventh month in...
No more graduate or post graduate resumes
Republic Resumes will no longer write graduate or post graduate resumes, cover letters or LinkedIn sites. The business is returning to its roots of providing working class and white collar professional writing services. All of SA’s major universities and TAFE centres...
Always leave a phone message
We sometimes can’t answer the phone because we are writing or on another call. When people call and don’t leave a message – sometimes the same person calls three times a day without leaving a message - we don't call them back. If a prospective client can’t state their...
Creating a professional LinkedIn site
Republic Resumes writes LinkedIn sites after we have created the resume. LinkedIn is useful for mid-career professionals, rather than graduates, unless your field or discipline is in high demand. This story is from Forbes Magazine. It’s a succinct piece on the...
When to ask about salary in a job interview
I’m suspicious about employers who don’t list the salary in the job advertisement or position description. It often means they want to pay the new hire peanuts to do a technical job with a high workload. Even so, if you do get a job interview, sooner or later you are...
Wages worth less as inflation rises
Wages aren't rising as quickly as inflation (7.2 per cent), which means they’re falling. Yet you won’t get any finance journalists or analysts stating this because they are shackled to the neo-liberal economic paradigm, which should have died back in 2007/2008. In the...
Internship cover letters
We don’t work on graduate employment collateral any more but this his post from Alison Doyle, an American employment specialist and expert, is very good. She writes about internship cover letters. It might help some applicants out. Your cover letter should be tailored...
Writing killer cover letters
At Republic Resumes, we use cover letters as a carrot to drive employers to read the resume. A well-written cover letter can boost your chances of landing an interview. A cover letter and resume are designed to complement each other. While a resume should include...
Job hunting migrants with degrees get shafted
The story below is from the ABC but I’ve added my ten cents worth. Dr Niazai is a 35-year-old Afghan-born Melburnian and an expert in forest ecology and climate change, with a master's degree and a PhD from Kyoto University in Japan. He has headed projects for the...
Testimonials show we go to work for you
When I started Republic Resumes, I wanted to use my business and political knowledge and professional writing skills to get people in Adelaide short-listed for work and to land jobs. We are achieving my aim, one client at a time. Here are some recent testimonials from...
Republic closed until 26 October
Republic is closed until Wednesday, 26 October. Myself and the other writers are uncontactable. Congratulations to former clients Paul and Denise, who found jobs last week. Prospective clients need a virus-free laptop/desktop and Word. Note we terminate client jobs...
Better than home from work
I was advocating that more people should work from home seven years ago but HR people were incensed. Now it has come to pass. Before the virus disrupted our lives, only 8 per cent of Australians regularly worked at home. That number has jumped to about 40 per cent at...
Why don’t you write selection criteria?
Once upon a time, when dinosaurs ruled the earth, we wrote government and NGO selection criteria. We charged $40.00 per criteria. We didn’t write many in Adelaide because of the price. They were a lot of work and I had some ethical issues with them. I stopped writing...
Resumes that go to work for you
I build expert resumes, cover letters and LinkedIn profiles, which unleash an unbeatable business case to promote you as a ‘must have’ asset to an employer.