Why Recruiters Are Facing a Surge in Job Applications The AI Effect on Modern Hiring By Jacquie Liversidge Navigate to: Over the past year, hiring managers and recruiters have witnessed a marked uptick in the volume of job applications landing in their inboxes. What once might have been a manageable pool of candidates has, in many sectors, grown into a flood. While a range of factors influence the job market, one trend is standing out with increasing clarity: the role of artificial intelligence…

AI is Ruining Your Chances of Getting a Job In ways you might not realise. By Jacquie Liversidge Navigate to: Artificial intelligence has become one of the most widely used tools in the modern job market. From generative text platforms that draft cover letters in seconds, to AI-driven CV builders that promise to optimise formatting, candidates are increasingly relying on automation to speed up their applications. On the surface, this seems like an advantage. Why spend hours tailoring documents when a system can…

I Can’t Do Any of These Jobs  How to Reclaim Your Confidence in the Job Search By Jacquie Liversidge Navigate to: It begins with a glance at the job listings. A scroll, a skim, and then a growing sense of dismay. Every role seems tailored for someone else. They all require skills you don’t think you have, experiences you haven’t had, or confidence you can’t quite summon. You close the tab and sit back, defeated. "I can’t do any of these jobs."This feeling,…

What Recruiters Really Look for in Your Resume Peek behind the scenes of recruitment. By Jacquie Liversidge Navigate to: When you submit your resume for a job application, you are competing not only against other candidates but also against time. Research shows that recruiters often spend less than ten seconds glancing at each resume before making a decision to continue reading or move on. This brief window highlights the importance of presenting a document that quickly communicates your value.Understanding what recruiters truly look…

Your foreign sounding name And how it affects your job hunt. By Jacquie Liversidge Your resume is fantastic. You have made all the right decisions. Perhaps you have engaged us and we have sent you into the job market with the best material we can produce to win jobs. Your work experience is from overseas, but this doesn’t actually matter so much. Or, at least, for me it wouldn’t. I am Australian, I am white and my name is a regularly used Anglo…

Discrimination in Hiring Practices The Religious Discrimination Bill 2019. It's not law, and it's hurting you already. By Jacquie Liversidge It’s finally happened.I’ve been waiting to see the ways in which the Religious Discrimination Bill will affect potential candidates. Not yet enshrined in law, it has not yet passed through both Houses of the Parliament, and already those seeking to discriminate have jumped on its potential with fervour.Today we received a call with an enquiry pertaining to a very unusual clause in a…

How to get a job 5 steps that will help you every time. By Jacquie Liversidge How to get a job in 5 steps (even if your application wasn't very good) For after, or during the submission of your application. Find out how to write your resume and cover letter in these links. What you'll find in here: The Overview Step 1: Call them Step 2: Give them something Step 3: Show that you want to know them Step 4: Follow up Step…

Questions to ask before the interview It's not the responses you get. It's all about the questions you ask. By Jacquie Liversidge As I've written about before, the digital age has ushered in a time of job application havoc-- employers face completely irrelevant and generic applications submitted through the likes of SEEK, Indeed and LinkedIn, which allow candidates to upload their application and apply for many roles, often with no effort involved at all. This has the effect of employers very quickly scanning…

By Jacquie Liversidge Employment Services VS Recruitment Agencies For newcomers to the country, or just newcomers to using a third-party for getting work, navigating which provider to use, what they offer and who they service can be difficult. There is a number of important differences between employment services and recruitment agencies in Australia. Firstly, employment services are privatized government funded contracts which can either be not-for-profit business or for-profit. Jobactive is the primary stream, a responsibility of the Minister of Employment administrative by…

Why your career doesn't matter unless... By Jacquie Liversidge A nihilistic line to open today’s article up on, but, it’s not all bad news. Whether you are an astronaut, an accountant, a customer service representative, an ICT specialist, a long-term volunteer, a mother, a teacher—you all have something in common: Absolutely nothing you have done will benefit your chances in the job market if you don’t spell it out on your resume. At this stage you might be thinking, “sweet, my most recent…