Senior writers. Named humans. Hobart-based. Australian-owned.
The Resume Writers is led by Jacquie Liversidge and Marc Cayzer — two senior writers who personally deliver every engagement they take on. We don't subcontract, we don't franchise, and we don't use offshore or AI-generated content. When you work with us, you work directly with one of us — named, accountable, and answerable for the resume that goes out.
A real office. In a real building. With real Australian writers in it.
The Resume Writers operates from an office in the heritage Colonial Mutual Life Building, in Hobart's CBD. It's where Jacquie and Marc work from, where client engagements get drafted, and where the team operates day-to-day. All client consultations are delivered remotely via Microsoft Teams — but the people doing the work are Australian, named, and have a fixed address.
Worth saying out loud: most resume writing services don't have an office. Many are individuals working from home. A few are franchise networks coordinating contractors. We mention the office not because you'll visit it — you won't, and that's by design — but because it's a reasonable signal that we're a real business, with real overheads, and a real reason to do the work properly.
Senior writers, end to end. No handoffs.
The Resume Writers is run on a deliberate model: senior in-house writers who personally deliver every engagement they take on. Whoever runs your discovery call is the same person writing your resume, drafting your selection criteria, and emailing you with the final version. There are no junior contractors filling in templates, no offshore writing teams, no automated drafts. Just expert human writers, named and accountable, working with you directly.
It's a model that limits how many engagements we can take on at once — but it's the model that produces the resumes, selection criteria and LinkedIn profiles people actually pay us for. We've been running this way since 2016 because it works. The team is intentionally small for a reason.
Australian, in-house
Every writer is an employee, based in Australia. No offshore teams, no franchise networks, no contractor pools.
No AI-generated content
Your resume is written by a human who interviewed you. AI tools may speed up our research; they don't write your content.
Senior writers only
No junior writers learning on your dollar. Whoever runs your call is the person who writes your resume.
Named accountability
You know whose name is on your engagement. Same person from first call to final delivery.
- In The Black
- Radio interview
Jacquie Liversidge
Founder of The Resume Writers. Two-time published author on selection criteria. Ten years coaching executives, SES candidates and Board appointments through high-stakes career transitions.
Jacquie founded The Resume Writers in 2016 and has built it into one of Australia's recognised resume, selection criteria and LinkedIn writing services. She personally delivers executive and SES engagements, and the methodology used across the firm — structured, evidence-based, calibrated to evaluation panels — is the one she's developed and refined over a decade of running TRW.
She is the self-published author of two books on selection criteria writing — The Australian Guide to Selection Criteria and Mastering Selection Criteria — written from her practitioner experience supporting clients through Australian government and professional applications. Her work has been presented at Queensland University of Technology, the Australian Computer Society, and at career expos around Australia, and has been featured in CPA Australia's In The Black magazine and on radio.
Jacquie's clinical interest is in senior career transitions: executives moving into board roles, public servants stepping up to SES, and accomplished professionals pivoting industries. The challenge in these transitions is rarely the candidate's capability — it's translating decades of complex experience into language a hiring panel will read, score, and shortlist against. That's the work Jacquie does.
Outside of TRW, Jacquie holds a Bachelor of Music in Classical Performance from the Tasmanian Conservatorium of Music (graduated with High Distinction, 2012 Award for Best Contemporary Performance). She has previously delivered career writing services for Bethlehem House, supporting people experiencing homelessness through structured employment applications.
Marc Cayzer
Senior writer specialising in government applications, executive resumes, and B2B engagements. Deep expertise in public sector evaluation frameworks and complex written documentation.
Marc began his career as a researcher and analyst with Stenning & Associates, a national consultancy specialising in regulatory reform and government system simplification. The work — interpreting complex government frameworks, producing structured written documentation, drafting executive summaries and policy responses for senior stakeholders — is the same skillset he now applies to selection criteria, executive resumes, and tender responses.
His subsequent career covered change management, stakeholder engagement, service delivery leadership, training, and project management across government and private sector roles. The pattern across all of it: producing complex written documentation that has to land with senior decision-makers, fast, in writing, with no margin for ambiguity. The same capability translates directly to high-stakes career documents.
At The Resume Writers, Marc leads our work in three specialist areas: APS and state government applications (where his familiarity with the Integrated Leadership System, VPS Capabilities, QPS Capability Framework and similar evaluation tools is a material advantage), executive-level resume writing (where his experience drafting for senior decision-makers carries through directly), and our B2B engagements — outplacement programs and tender writing — where he is the named lead and primary point of contact.
Marc has personally navigated significant career transitions himself, including completing a commercial cookery apprenticeship as a mature-aged student and working at award-winning Tasmanian restaurant Frogmore Creek before returning to consultancy work. That lived experience of mid-career reinvention informs how he coaches clients through their own transitions.
Organisations we've worked with.
We don't publish individual client names — most of our work is for individuals navigating sensitive career transitions, and confidentiality matters. The organisations below are public-facing engagements where we've delivered training, presented to professional audiences, or supported government employees through career writing services.
Four things you can expect from your engagement.
The small-team model isn't an internal operating choice — it changes what you experience as a client. Here's what an engagement with The Resume Writers actually looks like in practice.
A named human runs your discovery call
Not a sales rep, not a junior intake officer. The senior writer who'll personally produce your resume is the same person who'll spend 15-30 minutes with you understanding your career, your target roles, and what's actually at stake.
A named human writes your resume
No template-fillers. No offshore staff. No AI-generated drafts. The person who interviewed you is the person who writes your resume. They know your career, your voice, and what you're trying to achieve.
A named human edits and revises
When you send back feedback, it goes to the writer who produced the document — not a separate edits team. There's no version drift, no lost context, no third party trying to interpret what you meant.
A named human stays accountable
If anything ever goes wrong with your engagement, you know exactly who to talk to. No call centres, no ticket queues, no transferred files. One named senior writer, one accountable point of contact, end to end.
Pick a writer. Book a call.
Both calls are free, both are 15 minutes, and both are with the senior writer who'd personally deliver your engagement. Not sure who's the right fit? Either of us will redirect you to the other if your needs sit better there — no commercial reason for us to insist on the wrong fit.
Managing Director
Best for: executive transitions, SES, C-suite, Board appointments, career pivots, selection criteria
Book with Jacquie →Operations Manager
Best for: APS & state government, executive resumes, outplacement programs, tender writing
Book with Marc →