Photo by Markus Winkler on Unsplash

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…

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…

Alarming fall in printing apprentices

By Print21 A dramatic decline in printing apprenticeships in Victoria is a threat to the future of the industry, according to Chris Gander of leading printing recruitment firm JDA. The National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER) says in the 12 months to March 2016, the number of printing apprentices in training in Victoria was…

Are you ready for 2016?

Despite what we read in the Trade Media (sometimes we are our own worst enemy when it comes to promoting Print), here at JDA we have been very busy, and great employees are still hard to find. The disappointing trend, is so many of our good operational employees are looking outside our industry. Here are…

Time to Walk or Stay?

Are you Ready? In the process of de-cluttering, I came across an industry directory from 2008. Upon flicking through this, it was interesting to observe that five years on, a large percentage of the Employee’s named as Contacts, (key managers) in the Directory are no longer associated with the same Companies. So what does this…