I enjoyed this media release I received today from employment website, CareerOne.com.au, revealing its list of top 10 interview mistakes made by job hunters. Stating the obvious, the site’s editor Kate Southam said new job hunters must not sabotage their own success. “Job hunting blunders get you remembered for all the wrong reasons,” she said. [...]
Economic crisis hits
I heard a sad story today. It shows the global economic crisis is really beginning to have an impact on Australian life. There has been a lot of bad news lately. BHP Billiton’s decision to close the Ravensthorpe nickel mine, a few months after opening the $2 billion project which employed 1800 people, was one [...]
Hiring journalists from other professions
The Advocate in Burnie has advertised for journalists. Nothing unusual in that, except they have pitched the ad at non-journalists. I find this intriguing and refreshing. I’ve employed some mature people before who weren’t trained journalists and I saw a couple come through earlier in my career with mixed results. Mostly though, they were successful. [...]
The dyslexic postman
The number 5 on our letterbox is fairly prominent. There are only four houses in our court, but for some reason we keep getting letters for number 3 delivered to our box. We think many of our letters are being delivered to number 7, because every so often a bundle of mail is dropped in [...]
The great Australian sickie
In his latest comment Bill Sullivan touched on that great Australian institution, the sick day. While I don’t condone people exploiting the example he mentions (a hangover) I know it happens. In Victoria, employers have virtually conceded the Monday before Melbourne Cup day (the first Tuesday in November) as a holiday because everyone was treating [...]
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