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Considering a career change for the new year? Here are 4 factors to consider before making the move.

Starting a new career as the new year commences can provide a fantastic opportunity for fresh beginnings, both personally and professionally. There are many reasons why you might be considering a career change. Joblist’s Midlife Career Crisis Survey identifies that 47% of people change jobs seeking better pay, whilst 37% aim for better work-life balance. Whatever your motivations, changing...

Ego – Is not a Dirty Word

If you asked the average person to describe a consultant in 20 words, you’d probably find that ego-driven or some derivative of ego is in those 20 words.  To be frank, as a consultant myself, this used to annoy me, mainly because it’s painfully accurate, but also because the word ego has a lot of negative connotations around it – it’s practically one step off calling someone a w***** As I’ve...

Why Working From Home Is The Future

I’ll be the first to say it; I hate working from home. Without taking a poll I would say that I am probably in the minority. Many of the candidates and clients I work with very much enjoy working from home. The Event That Shall Not Be Named has taught us that we can be flexible, even in companies where it seems unlikely. I recruit for local government roles and around 75% of the candidates...

A Wellbeing Guide for Job Seekers

Looking for a job is mentally exhausting. Having just made it through a year-long recruitment process to land my first job out of uni, I can finally sleep easy knowing I have a position lined up for next year. However, the process wasn’t easy; in fact, at times it was borderline hellish. While there may be a rare few among us who enjoy the (demoralizing) process of refining CVs, psychometric...

Feeling like there isn’t a light at the end of the tunnel?

With everything going on including the continuous extension of the Victorian lockdown, many of us are feeling there is no end in sight. Now I’m not a mental health specialist by any means, but I find myself having conversations daily with candidates and clients who are feeling this lull in their lives/careers and thought I would give my ‘two cents’ on the topic. We are facing an era of...

Are We Biased?

Harmony Day started in Australia in 1999, chosen to take place on the United Nations’ International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination day it marks the day in 1960 when South African Police massacred 69 people protesting apartheid and black segregation policies.  When put in these terms Harmony Day demands us to take a genuine look at our sectors, companies, and ourselves...

Council Salaries – how does yours rate/compare?

As recruiters, we talk about salaries. A lot. They are crucial – after all, they are the reason most of us work. In the local government sector, something we encounter all too often is regional councils feeling intimidated by equivalent salaries offered by their metropolitan counterparts for similar roles....

Networking as an Introvert

  So as a recruiter, it’s assumed that we are all extroverted and loud, without a shy bone in our bodies… Do I wish that were the case! I am what you would call an introverted extrovert meaning that when it comes to networking events I can sometimes send myself off into a bit of a tailspin because I may not be able to control the situation or the conversation at all times. Not in a...

5 tips that will guarantee your CV to get noticed

  As a recruiter, I assess people’s suitability for a role by reading their CVs, and we read a lot of them on a daily basis. CVs are such an important currency in the recruitment industry and for your job search process. Consequently, we get asked a lot by people: ‘What makes a good CV?’ or ‘How do I write my CV so I can be more employable?’ The best way to answer this is by slightly...