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Read more about the article Senior Executive Service (SES) Pitch Writing
Australian Public Service / Selection Criteria

Senior Executive Service (SES) Pitch Writing

SES Pitch Writing The definitive guide to transforming your pitch from executive level bands to senior executive bands. By Jacquie Liversidge Navigate to: Overview The difference between Executive Level 2 (EL2) and Senior Executive Service Band 1 (SESB1) is a big one. If you’re at the EL2 level presently, and you are looking to make the leap, then we probably don’t need to explain how to write a pitch that focuses on your actions and your output, because you will be quite practiced in…

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August 9, 2023
Read more about the article APS6 Selection Criteria and Pitch Writing
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APS6 Selection Criteria and Pitch Writing

APS6 selection criteria and pitch writing Compare APS6 to both APS5 and EL1 and write a distinctly APS6 targeted application. By Jacquie Liversidge Navigate to: Overview The difference between Australian Public Service Band 6 (APS6), Executive Level 1 (EL1), and Executive Level 2 (EL2) employees in the Australian Public Service, if you’re not already in the government system, can be confusing to understand. These three levels of employment have distinct responsibilities and requirements and are underpinned by the Australian Public Service capability framework. The ILS…

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January 17, 2023
Read more about the article The Formula for Winning Interviews
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The Formula for Winning Interviews

The Formula to Win Job Interviews Stop tediously scripting and preparing, and learn the underpinning formula organisations use without them even knowing it. By Jacquie Liversidge Navigate to: Overview If you search online for ‘types of interview questions’, you’ll find resources that point you to ‘the 8 different types of interview questions’, the ‘4 different types of interview questions’, the ‘5…’ and so on.Make no mistake, there are only four.From these four types, there are an endless amount of questions you could be ask…

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September 15, 2022
Read more about the article The Job Market for 2023
Career Advice / Job Seeking

The Job Market for 2023

The Job Market for 2023 By Jacquie Liversidge If you read this piece we wrote last year, and you actioned anything from this piece in your career decision making, you would have done quite well. Dismayingly accurate, we foretold of incredible labour shortages across key industries which transformed what was from 2020 until 2021 an incredibly challenging and volatile job market. And here I am today with some bad news for you. You have a matter of months to make the best of this job market, and…

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July 17, 2022
Read more about the article Job Hunting in Omicron
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Job Hunting in Omicron

Job hunting during Omicron Navigating destabilised job market uncertainty. By Callie Buchwald In the last month, COVID-19’s omicron strain has swept across Australia, having an extraordinarily destabilising effect. After the first two quarters of the 2021/2022 Financial Year saw an increase in job vacancies, the job economy is now predicted to continue a downward trend over the next six weeks. Confusion about job availability and stress regarding employment stability only adds to the overall atmosphere of uncertainty and fear. There is nothing worse…

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January 7, 2022
Read more about the article Why Resumes Are So Hard To Write
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Why Resumes Are So Hard To Write

Why resumes are so hard to write And why they won't be getting any easier. By Jacquie Liversidge The major challenge faced by job hunters presently is not a scarcity of jobs. In fact, the job market at the present time is not experiencing any shortage of jobs. But it does feel that way. Applicants are applying and not hearing back, and employers are complaining of a skills shortage and low numbers of quality applications for roles across the gamut of industries. The primary…

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September 30, 2021
Read more about the article The Job Market for 2022
Career Advice / Job Seeking

The Job Market for 2022

The Job Market for 2022 Follow the trends. By Jacquie Liversidge Get a quote from us In 2020, we watched as new clients joined our ranks the like of which we would not have seen otherwise. Qantas leaders with 20+ years’ experience. Pilots. Self-employed publicans and resort managers. Trades. We watched as chefs and front of house personnel fled the industry, we helped nurses move from hospitals to COVID-centres and we worked with clients to get transitionary roles with the Australian Taxation Office,…

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September 18, 2021
Read more about the article Creating a Career Plan
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Creating a Career Plan

Creating a career plan Why now is the perfect time to develop a plan! By Sophie Whitfield Having a career plan is something we all aspire to have, but maybe not necessarily know how to do or have the time to do. Throughout our schooling lives we are constantly asked what we want to do as a career, and we are expected to have an answer. But what if we don’t? I didn’t – I still remember the confused faces every time I…

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March 21, 2021
Read more about the article Applying Ikigai To Your Career
Career Advice / Job Seeking

Applying Ikigai To Your Career

Applying Ikigai To Your Career Strike the perfect balance. By Sophie Whitfield Ikigai as a concept Applying Ikigai to your life What do you love? What are you good at? What can you be paid for? What does the world need? Revitalise your career Making that change How many times in the morning have you hit the snooze button when your alarm goes off? Surely, we are all guilty of it – right? But what is the reason? Are you not passionate or…

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October 26, 2020
Read more about the article How to Interview Well
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How to Interview Well

How to Interview Well Executive, manager, graduate. It's all about value offered. Nail the interview by changing your mindset. By Jacquie Liversidge Find in this article: What is means to interview well What an interview truly is (hint: partnership) The employer perspective Your perspective Change your perspective A good interview response A bad interview response What defines 'good' in an interview An interview for a role is not merely the employer deciding if they want to hire you over someone else. An interview…

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October 14, 2020
Read more about the article Your Foreign Sounding Name
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Your Foreign Sounding Name

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…

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June 12, 2020
Read more about the article Discrimination in Hiring Practices
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Discrimination in Hiring Practices

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…

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May 27, 2020
Read more about the article Applying for Australian Government Jobs – State by State
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Applying for Australian Government Jobs – State by State

Applying for Australian state government jobs Tas Gov, VPS, NSW Gov, WA Gov, ACT Gov, QLD Gov, SA Gov and how they differ. By Jacquie Liversidge Applying for Australian Government Jobs - State by State In this article, we'll detail the requirements for each state. Read ahead to your state with the links below if you prefer. Tasmania Victoria  New South Wales Australian Capital Territory Queensland Northern Territory Western Australia South Australia By this point, I’m sure you’re familiar with the STAR approach…

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May 22, 2020
Read more about the article Change Fatigue and COVID-19
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Change Fatigue and COVID-19

Change fatigue and COVID-19 Why you're sick of the news. By Jacquie Liversidge You’ve stopped watching the news. But to begin with, you were really invested in the federal government updates. And then you weren’t. You’ve stopped checking the coronavirus numbers. You have no idea what you can actually do with today’s restrictions, and you might not care. There’s plenty to do around the house, and it’s going to be left undone. You haven’t done anything for weeks and you need a holiday…

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May 18, 2020
Read more about the article The Coronavirus and your Confidence
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The Coronavirus and your Confidence

Coronavirus and your confidence In a world where wages equal worth. COVID JOBS By Jacquie Liversidge From a government mandated distance, I just spoke to the woman serving me at the grocery store who explained that she was new to the role at Coles. Congratulations, I said, with real enthusiasm. She explained that she had been looking for a job for months. She got a job in our regional municipality. A job selected for praise by our highest ministers in the last week.…

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April 11, 2020
Read more about the article Failing at Engaging Your Audience
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Failing at Engaging Your Audience

Failing at engagement Reunions, networking, relationships. We've all been there. Here's how to avoid it. By Jacquie Liversidge I sit here in this moment reflecting on the overwhelming failure of a 10 year reunion to engage its audience. An audience who all have something in common. In terms of audience engagement for an event, this event should be reasonably straight forward on the surface level to unify its attendees. Who out there dreads networking events? Hands up. My hand is up so far…

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October 26, 2019
Read more about the article Demonstrating your worth: Selling yourself in your resume
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Demonstrating your worth: Selling yourself in your resume

How to sell yourself in your resume By demonstrating your worth. By Jacquie Liversidge How to really sell yourself in your resume Getting a job is just about putting together a resume that just sells yourself, right? Skills and all that? Not quite. Absolutely fundamental to getting work anywhere is demonstrating your worth to the organisation. Let’s break that down. The business you are applying to is likely just that—a business. Unless it’s a government tribunal or administrative service, the place you are…

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October 17, 2019
Read more about the article How To Get a Job – 5 things you can do to stand out
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How To Get a Job – 5 things you can do to stand out

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…

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August 19, 2019
Read more about the article Selection criteria is disappearing. Is STAR dead?
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Selection criteria is disappearing. Is STAR dead?

Selection Criteria is Disappearing Is STAR (Situation, Task, Approach, Result) dead? And what does that mean for applications now? By Jacquie Liversidge Is selection criteria, and STAR, dead? Over the course of time, selection criteria has changed a great deal. Originally, selection criteria was only used for government and university roles, and generally used to required a whopping one full page per response. Moving with the punches of changing digital job submission trends, an ongoing emphasis on equality in hiring practices and challenges…

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May 24, 2019
Read more about the article Questions to ask before an interview
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Questions to ask before an interview

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…

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April 11, 2019
Read more about the article Employment Services VS Recruitment Agencies
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Employment Services VS Recruitment Agencies

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…

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March 20, 2019
Read more about the article RESUMES: Dealing with a blow to your confidence
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RESUMES: Dealing with a blow to your confidence

Dealing with a blow to your confidence. We've all been there. By Jacquie Liversidge Aside from all of the other external factors that applicants for roles can be affected by, the biggest factor, one which may or may not relate to external factors, is your confidence in applying for roles. Your level of confidence completely dictates how your application will read to employers, because it dictates the way you frame your skills, the skills you feel that you can list, the achievements you can…

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February 22, 2019
Read more about the article Things your LinkedIn writer should consider
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Things your LinkedIn writer should consider

Things your LinkedIn writer should consider And stay away if they don't. By Jacquie Liversidge Getting your LinkedIn worked on is a bit of a different process to getting your resume worked on. Why the approach is different: Audience:  Your LinkedIn is likely public, and accessible to anyone at any time. So unlike your resume, you don't choose who gets to see it and when they see it. Your writer should be asking you what the purpose of your LinkedIn is, what you…

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January 23, 2019
Read more about the article When You Don’t Know What to Put in your Resume
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When You Don’t Know What to Put in your Resume

When you don't know what to put in your resume. We've all been there. By Jacquie Liversidge At some point, every single person that has put together a resume has been faced with the same internal question: What Do I Even Say? When you’re staring at the barrel of an empty experience section, some really great questions to start asking yourself are: What is the most important part of my role? This will help to start get the ball rolling. Is supporting your…

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January 16, 2019
Read more about the article Two-Page Cover Letter Addressing the Statement of Duties
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Two-Page Cover Letter Addressing the Statement of Duties

Two-page cover letter addressing the statement of duties/selection criteria The format which has all but wholly replaced traditional selection criteria. By Jacquie Liversidge Navigate to:   How to write a 2-page cover letter that addresses government requirements More and more, there are content length limitations placed on selection criteria responses, and the majority of the time, these are two pages, or roughly 1500 words. This has been implemented by the Commonwealth and most state governments in response to enormous selection criteria responses being…

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January 12, 2019
Read more about the article Is LinkedIn any good for getting a job?
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Is LinkedIn any good for getting a job?

Is LinkedIn any good for getting a job? That thing that we all hate-- it might actually be a good thing. By Jacquie Liversidge Short answer—it depends.Long and winding answer—yes; all opportunities to bolster your online appearance in the inevitable google search by your prospective employer are very welcome indeed.What LinkedIn offers:Most people I speak to hate LinkedIn. It's a pain.But the great thing about LinkedIn from the perspective of employers is the consistency. Employers don’t need to pore over a range of different…

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January 5, 2019
Read more about the article Is Hiring a Resume Writer Cheating?
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Is Hiring a Resume Writer Cheating?

Is hiring a resume writer cheating? Won't the employer notice, or be unhappy? By Jacquie Liversidge Oh, heavens—no. Most politicians have their books ghost-written by copywriters. Most businesses pay marketing professionals to get their products sold. … Think that PM Scott Morrison writes his own speeches? (He doesn’t. Also, someone please fire his speech writer.) When a business makes a decision to hire you on the basis of a resume that has been professionally worked on, they’re also hiring an important decision you…

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January 3, 2019
Read more about the article Why your career doesn’t matter unless…
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Why your career doesn’t matter unless…

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…

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January 1, 2019
Read more about the article Using an online resume generator
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Using an online resume generator

Using an online resume generator The good, the bad and the ugly. We tried it so you don't have to. By Jacquie Liversidge There are now hundreds of websites that offer free or cheap visually stunning resume builders and templates which promise to make your resume stand out from the crowd. We went through an online resume generator called Canva, and wrote down some of our thoughts into seven main criticisms: Printing Industry targeted Page Length Future Editing Applicant Tracking System (ATS) failure Improper…

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December 28, 2018
Read more about the article How to Choose a Resume Writer
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How to Choose a Resume Writer

Choosing a resume writer. What to look for, what makes a good writer, and getting your money's worth. By Jacquie Liversidge And just like that, BOOM: the internet is jam packed full of resume writers.As resume writers ourselves, we are regularly repairing resumes for our clients who have gone through Airtasker, Fiverr and through cheap online providers.Resume writing has become a massive industry for a couple of important reasons:Most resume writers work from home, so do not need to have an office spaceThere…

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December 15, 2018
Read more about the article Cover letter and resume: How are they different?
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Cover letter and resume: How are they different?

Cover letter and resume: How are they different? It seems straight forward, right? By Jacquie Liversidge Aside from the obvious fact that a covering letter addresses the employer and the resume presents an overview, a key difference that people tend to miss in their approach to cover letters and resumes is a difference that has it’s roots in professional writing. When deciding on the primary purpose for business communications, there are only two options that need to be considered; informing, or influencing. Informing means just that.…

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March 10, 2018
Read more about the article What sections should you have on a resume?
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What sections should you have on a resume?

Choosing the right sections to add to your resume is not as straight forward as it may appear at first glance. Get your message across to employers by including sections specific to your industry by using this approach.

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December 12, 2017