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Pick the right job referees
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 seen in the high-profile case in 2018 of Andrew Flanagan, who was fired as a group manager at Myer, when he listed fake...
Interview questions you must know
INTERVIEW QUESTIONS Here are some of the most common interview questions along with the best way to answer them. "What are your biggest weaknesses?" Every candidate knows how to answer this question: Just pick a theoretical weakness and magically transform that flaw...
‘Useless’ government funded recruitment agencies
Look at the picture of Communications specialist Jane Austin. A face alive with personality and zest. She says her age is the main barrier to finding work. This story is a break out of a longer ABC story which you can find here. Age prejudice is a disease in the jobs...
Resume tips from Glassdoor
Even though Republic Resumes is closed until 11 October, Glassdoor has some good resume writing tips. I’ve edited this and made a few suggestions. Emphasise accomplishments, not responsibilities This requires some creative thought. Start making a list of the major...
Jobseekers forced out of labour market
The edited article from the ABC is so good, I’ve included there link here. It shows the dire state of the employment market and how the ‘low’ ABS unemployment figures hide the true situation. At any given time, there is a proportion of the population over the age of...
LinkedIn profile writing tips
LinkedIn sites are important for professionals, especially if you have a unique skills set or work background. Simple and straight forward sites are also handy for post graduate students. They are less useful for line workers because recruiters don’t cruise for them...
KPMG Australia unethical – fined by US watchdog
And you think recruiters and resume writers were unethical? Checkout this mob. This edited story was sourced from the SMH. Written by Sandra Danckert. The Australian arm of one of the world’s biggest accounting firms, KPMG, was fined $613,000 by the US accounting...
New nuclear sub build for Adelaide
Australia in collaboration with the UK and USA, will now build nuclear-powered submarines in Adelaide, instead of the French Barracuda-class submarines. The U.S. plans to share its submarine nuclear propulsion technology with Australia, as countries in the region look...
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...
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.