Job Seeking

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 name.I know that were…

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 OverviewStep 1: Call themStep 2: Give them somethingStep 3: Show that you want to know themStep 4: Follow upStep 5: Drop off a paper copyWhat this demonstratesAn exampleClosingResources…

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 applications,…

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 the Department of…

Why SEEK kind of sucks And it's the preferred job board for professional roles. By Jacquie Liversidge Most of us have never had to upload a job to SEEK, so most of us get to avoid the frustration that is one of the preferred online job board for employers.SEEK is a little bit narrow in the parameters that you are allowed to work with. So jobs that might actually permit lots of flexibility in location and hours don’t generally tend to list this…

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 and most important…