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5 Ways to Impress – Résumé

Photo by Markus Winkler on Unsplash   Welcome to part two of the 5 Ways to Impress Series, covering topics related to your job seeking, revealing beneficial approaches to improving your chances of landing the employment opportunity that you consider the one for you. In today’s article, we look at the humble Résumé, the document that lays bare your entire collection of previous jobs, education, training, achievements and the skills…

An Overview: Jobkeeper and Wage Subsidies

  The recent economic impact of the Covid-19 pandemic has sent Australian employment rates into a downward spiral, with Treasury figures forecasting that the unemployment rate in the June quarter will reach levels Australia has not seen for 25 years.   While this figure is disconcerting, the Australian Government has recently implemented a $130-billion wage…

How Do I Find A Good Apprentice?

Recollections from the Future Print Apprenticeship Advisors, shared by David Galbraith, Senior Recruitment Consultant at JDA Print Recruitment (VIC).   Many people are put off by the thought of finding an apprentice. Everyone seems to have a horror story about their recruitment search, or the apprentice from hell… fortunately they aren’t the norm, but it…

5 Ways To Impress – Cover Letter

Before you even began considering reading this, you were probably thinking to yourself – “Should I even bother sending a cover letter with this application? Will it even be read?”  Yes, cover letters are still a very important resource for Hiring Managers to determine whether you have what it takes to excel in the job. It’s an opportunity to feature who you are, to demonstrate what makes you…

Ball & Doggett to the rescue of print history

Penrith Print Museum finds a safe haven for its overflow of printing exhibits with the industry’s largest paper merchant in Sydney Safe haven: printing history An important milestone in the ever-evolving story of the Penrith Museum of Printing (PMOP) came when paper merchant Ball & Doggett accepted a delivery of old and antique printing equipment for much-needed storage. A…