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When to ask about salary in a job interview
I’m suspicious about employers who don’t give some idea of the salary in the job advertisement or position description. It often means they want to pay the new hire peanuts to do a highly technical job with a colossal workload. Even so, if you do get a job interview,...
South Australians forced to camp in tents
As an Adelaide resume writer, I’m most interested in the state of the national and local economy. This story is sourced from the ABC. I’ve edited it for length. When you’ve got single mothers sleeping in tents in caravan parks, you know something is very wrong....
Big changes to Centrelink mutual obligations
Life for the 792,000 people on Centrelink payments and those on JobSeeker living on $48 per day – which is below the poverty line – is about to get much more difficult, as one punitive system is replaced by another. On 4 July, Jobactive —the Australian government's...
Another Adelaide Republic Resumes client gets a job
At Republic Resumes, we randomly pick a number of clients who we ‘follow’ to see how they go with the job hunt. We check in by email nine or 18 months after we’ve written their resume and cover letter. I liked Akshay’s get up and go immediately. He was a recent Master...
Thought about jobs in regional Queensland?
Ballooning job vacancies in regional Australia reveal the optimism that is driving growth outside capital cities. The latest data from the Regional Australia Institute shows that there were 84,600 regional job vacancies in April 2022 – up nearly a quarter (24.8%)...
Law to help workers get unpaid wages back
Workers underpaid by employers will have a better chance of getting money owed to them after a "ground breaking" court decision. This is good news for casual workers in the accommodation and hospitality industry, where under paying wages has become a business...
Testimonials flow for Adelaide’s Republic Resumes
What’s the point of helping people gets jobs if they don’t get a job, supply feedback or testimonials? When I started Republic Resumes, I wanted to use my professional writing and editing skills to get people in Adelaide short-listed for work and to land jobs. Here...
Retailers brace for tougher times as spending dries up
There’s still time to find a job in retail in Adelaide but beware, the retail sector is preparing for a tough period ahead as rising inflation and weak consumer confidence threaten to send spending plummeting. Last week market analysts cautioned their clients that the...
Women finding part-time work
It is usually women who are in non-standard employment such as part-time work, often to meet the demands of children, sick parents or partners needing extra care. It appears women put more emphasis on job flexibility than men, an explanation for why it is hard for...
No wage shown on job ads? Forget applying
The rise of job advertisements without the salary is a worrying trend. Working in partnership with a woman with deep experience caring for animals in South Australia, we created a cracking resume and cover letter for a management job at a large pet and farm provisions...
Fake job scams
When job hunting we don’t think twice about handing over personal information. Seek.com.au is full of fake job ads, where your personal information is being sold by fake-job advertisers to companies who then try and talk you into doing a “free” training course, to get...
Another happy Republic Resume customer
Dave lives south of Sydney and has a military background. I could see something right away in the old resume he sent to be updated. His skills, although ill-defined, were deep and comprehensive. It took three drafts to pull his resume in to commercial shape. He had...
Intergenerational fairness gone to hell
This story is from the ABC which I’ve edited it for space. Over the next five years, you’ll hear much more about intergenerational fairness and youth poverty. I wrote this in The Advertiser seven years ago. Why am I interested in this? Because this will hit younger...
Helping older Adelaide jobseekers land a job
Age prejudice is thriving in Adelaide. I take special pride when one of my older clients (>55) gets a job with our help. There was a time people when people between 55-65, were retiring and cavorting on the beach or riding rickshaws in exotic locales. Not anymore...
More resume key words and clauses
Here are a few more ‘tricks’ which may help you get short listed, especially if recruiters use scanners. Try using key words and clauses. In a resume, you’d expect to include three or four of these. PEOPLE SKILLS These are the skills that help you interact and get...
Key word and clause resume tips
As an Adelaide resume writer, I know a few tricks which may help you get short listed, especially if recruiters use scanners. Try using key words or terms. We list them as clauses in a section we call Professional Capabilities on the first page and throughout the...
Career happiness is a trade off
This is an old ABC story from a couple of years ago, which I kept because it discussed career happiness. Most of the jobs I’ve had have been pretty good. But there have been a few shockers. With the shockers, I walked. Society tells us to do what we love. And if we...
ALP attacked for wanting minimum wage to rise – WTF?
The two main complaints I hear from Adelaide resume clients (apart from the uselessness of recruiters), is working for fools and low wages. The Labor Party has been criticised for wanting wage rises. The Guardian’s Greg Jericho wrote, “It is a true sign of how many...
Adelaide CBD: good times and bad
In an InDaily article, Andrew Beer, the Executive Dean of UniSA Business, reckons Adelaide’s CBD will bounce back after the Covid-19 restrictions lift. The full version can be found here. Unfortunately, the CBD was in decline long before the lockdowns and working from...
Behavioural interviews
I’m busy meeting recruiters next week and I will have my nose to the keyboard but I thought readers might be interested in this short piece on behavioural interviews by recruitment agency, Robert Half. Behavioural interview questions Behavioural interview questions...
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