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The art of the internship cover letter
If you're a graduate or graduand, now is the time to look for an internship. They are not as daunting as you might think but they need research and sometimes a little help from a professional writer. Internships are a foot in the door of the job market. If you are...
BHP jobs: underground truck drivers at Roxby
Ok guys and girls, BHP at Olympic Dam and looking for trainee underground truck drivers. The job spec is here: https://careers.bhp.com/job/Entry-Level-Underground-Truck-Operators-Olympic-Dam-77/806473700/ About the Role "We are currently seeking Expressions of...
How long it takes to find a job near you?
The ABC's Gareth Hutchens is writing some first class articles on the unemployment and the labour market. For a resume writer and job seeking blood hound, he’s the man to follow. That might not crank you on but if you’ve ever wondered why it’s so hard to get a job,...
Russell Ebert, a Port Adelaide Football Club legend, dies
You don't need to be a Port Adelaide supporter - which I am - to grieve over the passing of a great South Australian footballer. Port Adelaide veteran and football great Russell Ebert has died from leukemia at the age of 72. The Port Adelaide Football Club released a...
Professional reviews and testimonials
Below is a sample of our recent Adelaide Google reviews. Google reviews are the gold standard. You can find more of my Google reviews online or by checking out my testimonials. The day of the shonky ‘cut and paster’ is over. The future is bespoke resumes written by a...
Selection criteria and Republic closed until Friday
Because we write unique and tailored-made resumes and cover letter, we often get booked out early in the week. Some of our clients come from businesses we have relationships with, so we may get three or four clients in one hit on top of the current workload. It's a...
Radical change allows workers to quit their jobs
This story was by Jacqueline Maley in the SMH recently. I’ve edited it for space. Covid-19 and working from home has changed the work dynamic. Post-lockdown, many workers are rethinking their relationship to their work. In the US, workers are quitting their jobs in...
Recruiter algorithms end ‘cut n paste’ scammers
The rise of algorithms in recruitment is a mixed blessing. It means scanners can sort resumes by key words and terms (with a high error rate) but it also means they can scan paragraphs which have been ‘cut and pasted’ in to resumes by shonky 1300 number resume mills....
Adelaide jobs bounce back
I don’t want Adelaide people to get too excited but jobs are coming back and that’s good news for a city that has done it hard for the last 18 months (some cruelly would say 40 years). Retail is on the rise which is just in time for Christmas and biotechnology,...
Republic reopening on 31 October (Halloween)
We've had to close for a few days (opening Sunday 31 Oct) as demand has swamped supply, with prospective clients as far as Perth and Brisbane looking to book in. We are working on the backlog now. I can't remember a busier period, in large part due to state economies...
Republic back on deck for public from Sunday 31 October
Well folks, We're coming to the end of the largest run of defence resumes, cover letters and ancillary personal marketing material, since Republic began in in Adelaide in 2008. Myself and my two formatting and restructuring colleagues, have been working day and night,...
You can’t beat client successes with crafted resumes
Here is some longitudinal data on Republic Resume successes gained from us reaching out to clients and/or from their LinkedIn sites. Currently (last six months), a targeted resume and cover letter has a 65 per cent chance of getting short-listed. This depends on the...
‘Never a better time to be applying for a job’, experts say
This edited story is sourced from The Guardian and explains why we’re run off our feet at Republic. The jobs market is bouncing back – with a few caveats. Hotels and restaurants are battling to fill casual work rosters as New South Wales and Victoria emerge from...
Hiring a resume writer in Adelaide?
There are key things to look for when hiring a resume writer in Adelaide. Getting people interviews and jobs, knowing the local job market and employers, good word of mouth and working with Adelaide’s recruiter networks, keeps me busy. Here are some inside tips from...
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...
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 the...
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
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 can’t...
Drop outs on rise as due to lockdowns in NSW and Victoria
Another 138,000 jobs were lost in September as lockdowns in New South Wales and Victoria drove the participation rate to a 15-month low. Unemployment rose from 4.5 per cent to 4.6 per cent, which is meaningless as that could easily be error, yet the media reports...
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....
Resumes that go to work for you
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