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What a good cover letter looks like
In the last blog I provided an example of a bad cover letter from an Adelaide CBD resume mill, which actually operates out of Perth. Below is a good first draft of a cover letter I wrote at Republic Resumes. It's a draft because the final copy is owned by the client...
Dodgy cover letter from an ‘Adelaide’ resume mill
Unfortunately we have to do far too many rewrites of resumes and cover letters for people who have gone to ‘cut and paste’ resume mills. Below is an example of a ‘cut and paste’ cover letter from an 'Adelaide' CBD business - which actually operates out of Perth. It’s...
Adelaide’s Republic Resumes kicks more goals
With a new government about to take power in South Australia, all eyes will be on its achievements. Republic Resumes is grounded in achievements. How important are Google reviews when you are hiring a resume writer to help you get a job? They are everything. What...
Republic Resumes in Adelaide open
Hi Folks, I've had ten days off touring Tasmania and enjoying the beauty of Bruny Island and the Styx and Franklin Rivers. I've got a small backlog of clients but I will take new clients today. One of my younger clients, Eric, last week got a job just out of Monarto...
The trials of selection criteria – not for us!
Once upon a time, when dinosaurs ruled the earth, we used to write government and NGO selection criteria. We charged the standard fee of $40.00 per criteria. We didn’t write many in Adelaide because of the price. They were a lot of work and while we had success, I had...
Government program creates a miserable 7300 jobs
It’s hard not to be cynical when two million people were thrown out of work or furloughed when the lockdowns hit in 2020 and 2021. Now we find the federal government’s $4 billion employment program only funded a handful of jobs. The JobMaker scheme only managed to...
Careers and a virtuous life
This story by Shane Rogers, the Queensland Head of AIG, appeared in the media a while ago. I kept it because it's a great summary of passion, virtue, respect and pursuing a career. It's the best piece of career advice I've found. "Almost everyone knows deep down that...
Leave a message or send an email
My background is in recruitment, professional writing, PR and journalism, where professionalism was drummed in to me. We can't always get to the phone, so when people call and don’t leave a message – some three or four times a day - we won’t call them back. If a...
Closed borders drives unemployment down
Another blog for the boffins who are interested in why Australia's unemployment is so low. In large part, it's due to stopping immigration. Obviously, the historic size of the Australian government's fiscal stimulus and the Reserve Bank's ultra-loose monetary policy,...
Five timeless transferable skills
Technology is replacing many dated aspects of day-to-day work with new opportunities and roles for expanding industries. That's good news for some and bad for others. It means careers are changing and with them, career changers. Increasingly we are seeing the...
Resume fibs and fraud
It's a resume writer's job to help their client get short-listed but there's a point at which an 'embellished' resume ventures into criminal territory. Republic Resumes terminates clients who lie. This story is taken from ABC News and edited to fit. When medical...
Update those job referees now
With fierce competition to get a job, resume referees can make or break an application. Unreliable or fake referees can end up in court, as was seen in the high-profile case in 2018 of Andrew Flanagan, who was fired as a group manager at Myer, because he listed fake...
Perseverance and a strong resume: a winning combination
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...
Do that practical placement or internship
As an Adelaide resume writer, I used to work on a few graduate student resumes from the three publicly funded universities. Less so now. It's alarming the number who have not completed a practical placement, especially in engineering. If you're an international...
Low unemployment rate yet flat wages. Huh?
This one is for the boffins. If you’ve ever applied for a job and wondered how they work out the unemployment rate and why wages don’t go up when unemployment is low, read on. This story is by ABC Business reporter, Gareth Hutchens. According to the Reserve Bank,...
Beware dodgy resume franchises
In the last six weeks I’ve had three very angry Adelaide male clients working in heavy industry and the mining sector, complain bitterly about their experience at a ‘so called local’ resume writing franchise in Adelaide. This franchise ranks high on Adelaide Google...
Targeted and internship cover letters that work
I enjoy writing targeted cover letters in partnership with clients (after we’ve written the resume). Every paragraph is a ‘punchy’ selling point, which goes to the heart of the application. If you want to go it alone, here are some tips. Don’t use the same cover...
Non responders to the unemployment survey
I get resume clients who say the unemployment rate of 4.2 per cent just can’t be right. It’s not. About one million people are on furlough (waiting to restart a job due to Covid) and they’re not counted as unemployed. Another million are doing a few hours work here...
Get your career back on track in 2022
It’s time to give our careers some TLC and start resuscitating your professional relationships and reassess priorities. Career coach Leah Lambart, says many employees are feeling quite disconnected from their work, managers and colleagues. It’s heightened for those...
Wage theft in Adelaide cleaning industry
This is more of a warning for Adelaide job applicants rather than resume writing advice, although we get asked a raft of questions about career guidance. We do a lot of one page resumes for migrants and others who want to work as domestic and commercial cleaners in...
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.