I’ve stressed before that you should never ‘apply to apply’. It wastes your time. It wastes HR’s time. When it’s clear that you’re not a fit, sending in your CV is more likely to permanently shut doors. The company will see your application, not as a genuine...
Most LinkedIn users are just floating in a sea of inactive and ineffective accounts: profiles without pictures. Profiles that haven’t been updated in years. Profiles which only list Microsoft Office as a skill. The site has made networking easier than ever, but that...
For all of last year’s changes, some things are set in stone. Commutes may be largely nonexistent and water coolers might have gathered a thick layer of dust, but we still have many of the same concerns; do our coworkers like us? Did we just send that private message...
It’s finally 2021, which means that, somehow, we’re all sitting on the other side of one hell of a year. Unfortunately, the clocks ticking over into midnight didn’t reopen borders for this year’s vacations. COVID is still here, restrictions still exist, and many of us...
After a year primarily viewed from windows and computer screens, Australians are looking forward to more freedom (I’m knocking on wood as I type this). But while social restrictions are lifting, our offices will probably remain dusty — at least for now. This means...
2020, as a year, has been synonymous with sacrifice. Australians, and Melbournians in particular, have given up family visits, weddings and birthday dinners. Vacations are indefinitely on hold, and so many parents have spent the larger chunk of their year indoors with...
It feels like we’ve spent most of 2020 yearning for a return to the normal. Hardly a day goes by without a conversation where we discuss all the plans we’ve put on pause. It feels like we have spent the year dreaming of an alternate 2020 timeline where our weddings,...
It’s been a strange year in the world of recruitment. Some trends, like the rise in demand for talent with hybrid skill sets, and the drop in salary package offerings were the predictable result of employers having to grapple with a smaller budget as the Australian...
It’s been eight months since we started living in the ‘new normal’ and what started out seeming temporary, has revealed itself to be the dawn of a new era of living, working and thinking. As a Recruiter watching the job market react and adapt to the ‘new normal’, I...
In June, I wrote about the art of maintaining your professionalism during job interviews over Zoom. In the time warp that is 2020, that seems an age ago and over the last month or so a new challenge has emerged: Zoom fatigue. A number of the employers I work with...
If you’re one of the many talented professionals currently looking for work in the digital marketing, PR or advertising industries, you may have noticed that positions are being advertised with salaries that are dramatically lower (sometimes up to $20K less) than what...
For those living in agency land, the end of the financial year traditionally signals the beginning of mid-year reviews when pats on the back, promotions and pay rises are all possibilities. Cut to 2020 when in most agencies, pats on the back are a breach of social...