What is Seek playing at?
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 [...]

It’s about the people, stupid!
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 [...]

It’s about the talent, stupid!
Even It Up! gets quite a bit of criticism from recruiters.  Surely not, we hear our supporter 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 [...]

Gen Y: will work for free!
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 [...]

Jobs for the boys
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 [...]