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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Anatomy of a fake job ad
12:00pm Saturday 22 August 2009 - Even It Up! Even It Up! was alerted to this job ad via Twitter (by the way, if you wanted to follow us, we are @evenitup). If this isn’t a fake job ad, we’ll eat our hats! Posted on Hippo, a few things should be setting off alarm bells right about now: No experience is necesary in order to be [...] | View Full Article Email Article |
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Update: national enquiry into recruitment
10:54am Friday 21 August 2009 - Even It Up! Further to our post Recruitment: 4 Reasons for a National Enquiry, Even It Up! can let readers know that politicians don’t give two hoots about the plight of jobseekers, other than to spew the usual rhetoric about how important jobs are to the economy etc. We received this response from Maxine McKew: Dear Diane, Maxine has asked me [...] | View Full Article Email Article |
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SARA Awards = big fat joke
12:42pm Thursday 13 August 2009 - Even It Up! Filed under the You’ve Got To Be Kidding! category, Diane Lee received an email yesterday from Entree Recruitment asking her to vote for them in the 2009 SARA Awards. Given that Diane has only had one (less than satisfactory) interaction with this recruitment company, you have to wonder about the genuineness (as well as rigour [...] | View Full Article Email Article |
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Even It Up! responds to RCSA Code of Practice “shoulds”
7:00pm Wednesday 05 August 2009 - Even It Up! Even It Up! wanted to respond Julie Mills (from the RCSA) article in Money Management yesterday (which was responding to their claims of fake job ads), but had trouble with the comments box, so we have published it here. While the RCSA Code is fine in theory, it is the practice (or lack thereof) that [...] | View Full Article Email Article |
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Social media and job hunting: do you make these 4 mistakes?
11:47am Friday 31 July 2009 - Even It Up! In a recent post about the Fair Work Act 2009, Even It Up! talked briefly about social media and the legalities around whether employers can use what they find online to aid the hiring decision. Simply put: they can’t. It is illegal to do so. But as with many things in this world, it’s only [...] | View Full Article Email Article |
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Fair Work Act 2009: a better deal for jobseekers?
6:09pm Sunday 26 July 2009 - Even It Up! There has been quite a bit of dialogue lately from HR professionals, recruiters and journalists regarding the introduction of the Fair Work Act 2009, in particular whether jobseekers are “more protected” by this legislation. Sadly, and despite the rhetoric, this does not seem to the be wholly the case. According to Complispace, it seems that while the [...] | View Full Article Email Article |
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Guest blogger: more from an ICT contractor
5:57pm Wednesday 15 July 2009 - Even It Up! Dear Diane, This (see email below) is probably not a direct reason for avoiding agencies but a very strong motivator. You may be aware of the PSI legislation (a contractor cannot earn 80% or more of their income from one source) and it would seem that the ATO is just going to the large ICT recruitment [...] | View Full Article Email Article |
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Recruitment: 4 reasons for a national enquiry
5:52pm Wednesday 15 July 2009 - Even It Up! Even It Up! was contacted by a recruiter in Sydney who is very keen to see a national enquiry into the state of the industry. At their prompting, we have sent correspondence to a number of key federal politicians to try and open up a discussion (at the vert least) about the industry. Our email [...] | View Full Article Email Article |
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1st annual Even It Up! Jobseeker Experience Survey
1:55pm Friday 10 July 2009 - Even It Up! Even It Up! is dedicated to improving the experience for jobseekers. Part of this mission is to collect evidence that can be taken to direct employers and recruitment companies alike to lobby for an improved overall experience. We currently have two surveys open and we encourage you to have your say on either or both. The first [...] | View Full Article Email Article |
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One day, two recruitment conversations
9:55pm Wednesday 08 July 2009 - Even It Up! Even It Up! had a quite the chatty day about recruitment yesterday (thank you Skype!). One conversation was scheduled, the other was serendipitous. #1 Keith Keller from Career Communique Keith runs an online radio programme that seeks to bring positivity into the world of those looking for work, or those people who are changing career. He heard [...] | View Full Article Email Article |
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