JDA PRINT RECRUITMENT
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…
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Photo by You X Ventures on Unsplash Ideas from David Galbraith, Senior Recruitment Consultant at JDA Print Recruitment (VIC). With the Job Keeper payments now in effect, many businesses are considering how best to utilise their staff. Orders may take a while to come back, so why not attack some of those items previously on the…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Hornsby TAFE design students visit to Clarke, Murphy Print by VOICE OF THE INDUSTRY James Cryer History was made today as a group of graphic design students from Sydney’s Hornsby TAFE college were introduced to the wonders of print as they were taken on a guided tour of the Alladin’s cave of delights, aka busy…
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How to find a good sales rep (and do they exist?) While finding the right sales rep can be difficult, some employers inadvertantly scare away good reps by going for the ”low base/high commission” option. This is tempting – but a mistake – as the sales role these days is not one of ”quote and hope”…
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As you all know, everything I do is to help the printing industry. Case in point: I’m sure you’re all avid readers of AFLOAT magazine (circulation 30,946, proudly printed by Sydney’s Spotpress) – which is free, making it especially attractive to those of us lowly-paid print tragics. So, I thought I’d give the circulation a…
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The LIA/Heidelberg Graduates Awards Night – unreported by the trade press! Last week, coinciding with both Printex and the National Print Awards, there was an event of great significance to our industry, but which snuck through to the keepers – un-reported by either of the two ”mainstream” trade publications, but reported here for the first…
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