About - Even It Up!
Looking for a job is a tricky business, especially in this economic climate. Generally, there are all sorts of barriers and obstacles a jobseeker has to overcome in order to even be offered a job! From our research, it seems that many employers and recruitment companies just don't treat jobseekers either fairly or respectfully. This blog questions the recruitment practices that permeate many organisations, and is a companion to the Even It Up! website.The Even It Up! website provides jobseeker experiences to other jobseekers. It gives The Lowdown on recruitment, selection and interview practices of recruting organisations, from the best to the worst. For more information please visit http://www.evenitup.com.au
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No questions asked
8:04pm Monday 22 February 2010 - Even It Up! Stephen Conroy proves that at the top end of town, things are very different. No answering selection criteria, panel interview, or psychological profiling for this role. No hoop jumping in any way, shape or form! The thing about this appointment is that it was publicised as being a rather dodgy process, [...] | View Full Article Email Article |
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What is Seek playing at?
7:14pm Thursday 08 October 2009 - Even It Up! Seek are clearly launching some sort of campaign… we clicked on the link in the ad, but were redirected to a “cliffhanger” page. However, we do find it interesting – and a tad hypocritical – that given the focus on scam, fake and bogus job ads (and Seek’s protestations that they do everything in their [...] | View Full Article Email Article |
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It’s about the people, stupid!
5:29pm Saturday 26 September 2009 - Even It Up! Even It Up! gets quite a bit of criticism from recruiters. Surely not, we hear our supporters say; how can this be? The criticism comes from two main areas 1) we aren’t recruiters and 2) we’re too negative. Before we address these criticisms, how about we get back to basics? How about we think about the [...] | View Full Article Email Article |
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Gen Y: will work for free!
7:44pm Thursday 24 September 2009 - Even It Up! The founder of Even It Up! (Diane Lee) teaches part-time at Tafe. She has noticed a disturbing trend among Generation Y: they are working for free. Example #1 – Jonah* Jonah had found a job in a restaurant. The owner wanted him to work for a “trial period” for a week before making a decision as to [...] | View Full Article Email Article |
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Jobs for the boys
9:49am Friday 18 September 2009 - Even It Up! More proof that it’s about who you know, particularly if you move in certain circles! Even It Up! wonders if, before Kim Beazley and Brendan Nelson were appointed to their news jobs, they had to: apply through a recruitment company convince the consultant they were the best person for the job answer copious amounts of selection criteria tailor their CV [...] | View Full Article Email Article |
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Open letter to Minister Emerson from ICT Contractor
11:09am Tuesday 15 September 2009 - Even It Up! Minister Emerson, As you are aware your government has implemented measures to acknowledge, strengthen and protect the rights of independent contractors in this country. This has obviously been prompted by the changing nature of the workplace environment with 20% of that being comprised of independent contractors. This is a large section of the voting public. The [...] | View Full Article Email Article |
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Ability: A New Form of Job Discrimination?
6:02pm Wednesday 09 September 2009 - Even It Up! The post Even It Up! wrote the other day about our experience with Edge Recruitment and their feedback on our application has been niggling at us. It’s not that they were defensive about their processes (who wouldn’t be under the circumstances?) or they accused us of chasing work as consultants (isn’t that how work is [...] | View Full Article Email Article |
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Recruitment companies need not apply!
6:00pm Tuesday 08 September 2009 - Even It Up! Even It Up! loves this ad that Parsons Brinckerhoff recently posted on Seek, an excerpt of which is below. Hot tip: read the sentences in capitals! Posted in Recruitment, recruitment companies Tagged: job ads | View Full Article Email Article |
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Edged out by “instinct”
12:26pm Tuesday 08 September 2009 - Even It Up! At Even It Up! we like applying for roles just to interrogate the process that direct employers and recruitment companies use. We are a bit like Mystery Jobseekers. The latest one we applied for was a part-time Communications Assistant with Edge Recruitment. The role was advertised on Seek in early August, and we applied for it [...] | View Full Article Email Article |
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Recruitment: show me the money!
10:22am Thursday 27 August 2009 - Even It Up! Even It Up! received a this job ad from a supporter. It seems that Hydrogen Group is looking for recruitment consultant. While we don’t want tar all recruiters with the same brush, it is clear that helping people is not even on the radar with this particular organisation… it’s all about the cash! On the bright [...] | View Full Article Email Article |
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