Comments on: Job applicants take note

By: Lyn Bennetts

Lyn Bennetts — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 06:34:44 +0000

Thank you! your opinions and advice have given me insight to a topic I have been so unsure of. I have recently completed placement and am required as part of assessment to complete a job application. I’m sure information like yours has given me a little more confidence to do this. (out of workforce 20 years)

By: Natacha

Natacha — Thu, 09 Mar 2006 06:57:14 +0000

Going back to Shane’s comments about students proofing other students resumes…

Universities usually contain a central university-wide set of resources available to students (as opposed to services offered by Schools and/or Faculties).

As a postgrad interactive multimedia student at ECU who is also working full-time and trying to break into industry, I have made ample use of the ECU Careers Advisory Service. Their staff have helped me:
- update, proof and appropriately format my resume
- create cover letters for specific vacanies
- workshop inverview skills
Although I can’t speak about what resources other unis have available for their students, the ECU service is absolutely fantastic. They also offer workshops in specific areas related to job-seeking skills and preparing documentation. They run career weeks, invite employers in talk to students, assist students in finding work experience placements…etc
And they do make themselves as visible as they possibly can…so that ECU students are aware of what services they offer.

I guess the onus is on the specific student as to whether they take that opportunity up and use the resources they have available to them…

It says alot about your potential employee if they did/didn’t take make use of such resources when they are freely available and easily accessible to them.

For your reference, the ECU Careers Advisory Service site is located here:
http://www.ecu.edu.au/SSC/Careers/

NB - although I did my undergrad degree at Murdoch, I didn’t investigate what similar services they have available to students at the time…silly me. Thank goodness we can learn from our mistakes!

By: Miles’ Blog » 39 hints when looking for web industry work - Thoughts and errata from Miles Burke.

Fri, 03 Mar 2006 13:06:03 +0000

[...] Six weeks ago I posted about my recent recruitment experiences for Bam Creative. It caused a bit of a stir, and seemed to be well received by some, and not so good by others (hello to those whose comments I deleted!). This list below expands on that previous post, and includes real life experiences of mine when hiring people over the last fifteen years, along with some good old plain advice. [...]

By: Mr Peabody

Mr Peabody — Tue, 31 Jan 2006 03:52:47 +0000

hy piles,

I neva sissies to maze me how pepole dun bover wiv getin a descent edukation!!! u & mee r a dyeing breed fur shure!!
I fink yer Grape :)

By: Steven

Steven — Mon, 23 Jan 2006 08:46:43 +0000

Will take those suggestions onboard Miles. How are you doing? I hope everyone’s doing great at BAM and I wish you another succeessful year.

By: Mr Ben Dover

Mr Ben Dover — Thu, 19 Jan 2006 06:29:46 +0000

Kate,

I think you will find those who are ‘complaining’ are working in the industry. Everyone is entitled to their own point of view and does’nt have to be a suck.

Cry me a river.

By: Kate Lande

Kate Lande — Wed, 18 Jan 2006 12:03:55 +0000

I reckon those who are complaining or acting silly in the comments are the unemployed. The rest of us have figured out what it takes to land a job.

Excellent article - I will be sure to forward it to my “just finished university” friends.

By: Mr Snappea

Mr Snappea — Wed, 18 Jan 2006 05:27:28 +0000

I agrree with Mistar Peebodi. There har plenty of spelchekers onlyne, the only difikulti is piking the write languidge, az its impotent to insure prosspecdiv reeders undrastand wots ritten. Uzing a thesorus is alsoo wize to insure the correkt meening of the werd is used.

By: Luke

Luke — Wed, 18 Jan 2006 04:24:02 +0000

People are too lazy these days and they expect the world to come to them. It only takes a few hours to search the web for advice on preparing for an application and to research the company, write a cover letter (even using the spell checker… hard work that) and generally putting a bit of effort into your application. Can you blame the universities? Most of them have services to offer this kind of help in place but generally it’s the student’s responsibility to make use of them…

By: Michael G

Michael G — Wed, 18 Jan 2006 03:34:25 +0000

Miles, thank you so much for posting what you think - it’s going to help me when I finish Uni this year in writing my resume - the idea of having mock interviews is great too - you’re right, we haven’t learnt anything like this yet at Uni in Sydney.