Pillentum Blog

While the world is on the verge of a talent crisis, business leaders seem to be unaware of the challenges ahead and concentrate on technology...

Australia’s’ been having issues with the labour market for a while now. To force firms to increase wages we need the unemployment rate to go...

Traditionally analysts would look at how many job advertisements are listed to report vacancies in the work force, but increasingly job measures and vacancies aren’t...

The traditional full-time career as we know it, is becoming obsolete. For the first time in recorded history, less than half of Australian workers are...

How To Write a Career Plan “Failing to plan, is planning to fail” Alan Lakein. Creating a career plan is the first step to success....

How to Write a Cover Letter – Do’s and Don’ts I’ve seen a lot of cover letters throughout my career – the good and the...

As someone who has used LinkedIn since 2007, I’ve learnt the value of using it. Having a great LinkedIn profile can help enormously when you’re...

Considering a new job?  I received a resume from an engineer (whom I’ll call Ali) a few days ago. His story is like many people who come to...

I met up with a boss from a previous company that I worked with a number of years ago. He has moved on to bigger...

If you’ve been having some challenges looking for work or getting to the interview stage then please read on as I share the experiences of...

Recruiters Ignore Older Workers There has been a lot of news in the press lately about the difficulty that older workers are facing when it...

Although around 20,000 Australian mining jobs are said to fade by end of 2018 according to one of the country’s leading research firms, there is...