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Bad news behind the new unemployment figures
A steep fall in hours worked last month paints a more accurate accurate picture than the unemployment numbers of the economic pain caused by the COVID lockdowns. The official ABS figures show unemployment dipped from 4.6 per cent in July to 4.5 per cent in August,...
‘Kiss of death’ for CBD retailers
In a kiss of death for many CBD retailers, working from home is here to stay according to the federal government's key economic adviser, with a new report suggesting some people might even take a pay cut to remain in their home office. The percentage of Australians...
One in five jobs in Western Sydney go in lockdown
One in five jobs across parts of western Sydney has disappeared since the lockdowns started and across Australia, payrolls fell by 0.7 per cent in the fortnight to August 14, which will have GST ramifications for SA and Tassie. The Australian Bureau of Statistics said...
Shonky psychometric tests kill careers stone dead
I wrote this article seven years ago for HR Director magazine and I’ve updated it. University graduates know all about facile psychometric tests. While Republic Resumes is good at getting people short-listed for jobs, there’s not much we can do when employers force...
The truth about selection criteria
There are a number of reasons why we don’t write selection criteria at Republic Resumes. The first is the employer wants you to write it. Unlike resumes or cover letters, which can be written in partnership with a professional writer, selection criteria are recalled...
Hunting the Unique Value Proposition
You as a ‘brand’ have features: you may have strong leadership skills, an MBA, a healthy amount of experience in the finance sector, etc. But a lot of other candidates have these features, too. To win great job offers you need to go deeper. What is unique about you?...
Age prejudice when you’re over 50
Very little has changed in 15 years – or at least since I’ve been following the plight of older and younger job seekers who suffer age prejudice. This edited story is from Anna Patty at the SMH. Wise Employment and others have been doing a lot of advertising online of...
The Age: Victorian lockdowns can’t go on like this
I’ve edited this story in The Age for space. The full story is here. If the Victorian (and NSW) government(s) keep up these lockdowns, there will be very few jobs and bugger-all economy to return to. It's rending the social fabric and the only reason unemployment is...
Why do resume mills produce utter crap?
At Republic Resumes we don’t charge top dollar for a resume but we’re not the cheapest in town. We do more than insert keywords from a job description, add achievements, update the layout and improve the grammar. We communicate your Unique Selling Proposition to the...
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
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 their...
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
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
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...
Are you suffering middle-class pandemic under reporting?
I sometimes read economics columnist Jessica Irvine in The Age, but of late, it’s hard to consume any media without noticing one glaring fault: there’ s bugger-all coverage of the colossal human cost of the lockdowns. The billions of dollars of lost wages, lost...
Time running out for Whyalla Steelworks
You want to believe the best, that somehow Sanjeev Gupta’s GFG’s Liberty Primary Metals Australia (LPMA), will pull a rabbit out of a hat and refinance a new deal to cover its Greensill debt and save the Whyalla Steelworks. So far, no rabbits and no hats. Only the...
Resume rewriting boss from hell
We created a resume for a chap working in a contract position supervising WHS&E, for a large Adelaide company a while back. There were issues from a third party. His contract was coming to an end and he had an old template resume that was six pages long, going...
Financial black hole for Adelaide’s universities
As a resume writer and employment expert, I know the ban on international students is crippling Adelaide’s economy. The three public universities provide around 7000 jobs and by extension, provide another 15,000 jobs in real estate and hospitality. South Australian...
Avoid the retirement void and follow one’s passions
Retirement isn’t all it’s cracked up to be for some. When I started Republic Resumes in Adelaide about 10 per cent of my clients were retirees wanting to work part time or casually. I focused on their interests and targeted their resumes to new careers. This story is...
Deadline breakers cut dead
Everyone has an excuse for breaking deadlines. The dog died. Car accident. Sick uncle. Dog ate it (same dog). Computer failure. Forgot to save. Wedding anniversary. Alien invasion. We’ve heard them all. I once had a senior administrator who broke a deadline because he...
Resumes that go to work for you
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