Smart Start Marketing Solutions

This is a guide for parents and participants to help them make decisions about living in an inclusive community on South Stradbroke Island.

I'm passionate about helping people get jobs, especially those who have spent many years caring for a loved one and then face the overwhelming task of getting back into the workforce. Often, the way you write a job application has changed and attending interviews is always as popular as a root canal. I wrote a series of articles on tips for getting back into the workforce.

I've drawn from my 20 years' experience in helping people get jobs to put them on the right path to prepare for a winning interview.

It's very satisfying to help someone ghostwrite their first book. Leaha Mattinson decided to write a book to help others facing a life-changing diagnosis. She not only lives her life well, she is inspirational in her approach. I had the pleasure of assisting Leaha to achieve her goals of being a best-selling author and motivational speaker.

This is what Leaha said about my work: “Hire Dawn. Professional - Can-Do Attitude - Excellent Results! What an absolute pleasure to work with Dawn! She is a truly dedicated and heart-centered professional writer, editor and coach with my best interest and the projects' best outcome in her vision at all times. She drove the project to completion and provided a sounding board for many ideas and was able to synthesize these 'musings' into a wonderful compilation that is at the publishers as I write this note. I am looking forward to working with her on future projects.”

I worked closely with the Careerone editor, Kate Southam, in answering career questions and writing articles of interest to jobseekers. Kate kindly write the foreword to my book, Get That Government Job.

Worked with property developers and property investors to develop eye-catching brochures and sales kits that were successful lead generation tools.

Getting a job is becoming more and more challenging. Not only do you need the desired skills, experience and qualifications, you also need to format and write your application to get past ‘robot scanners’ that are searching for ’key words’ in your application. No ‘key words’ – no interview! More than 90% of recruiters and employers in the UK and USA, and 80% in Australia and New Zealand now use applicant tracking systems (ATS) to manage the huge volume of applications they receive for any nominated position. A corporate role attracts hundreds of applicants, but only five or six people will be interviewed. Ouch! A lot of really great applicants miss out because they don’t know how to write their applications for this new job market. Help is at hand! This easy-to-use guide shows you how to get your application into the ‘yes’ pile.

You’ll learn how to quickly update your tired old resume and cover letter using professionally formatted TEMPLATES (just replace the text with your own information).

We’ll also provide QUICK GUIDES and CHEAT SHEETS to help you build your brand on LinkedIn and other social media and provide tips for networking to keep you extremely competitive in this dynamic employment market.

Although the guide was designed specifically for Australian and New Zealand career changers, it is also extremely valuable for job seekers in the UK or USA where more than 90% of organisations use these ATS systems.

The guide also provides templates for cover letters and selection criteria statements (key capability statements) so you’re covered for both private sector and government jobs. FREE TEMPLATES QUICK GUIDES CHEAT SHEETS Dawn Richards has spent the past twenty years as a career coach and professional resume writer, helping job seekers get the jobs of their dreams. She is the author of best-selling career books: Selection Criteria Toolkit, Get That Government Job and From Fired to Hired.

If you’re a ‘Baby Boomer’, born between 1946 and 1964, you probably walked straight into your first job and haven’t needed to apply for one since... until now!

You’re probably reading this book because you’ve been zapped by the Three R-R-Rs - Retrenchment, Redundancy and Restructuring. You’re not alone!

The global financial crisis is causing many businesses to downsize as they try to stay afloat in uncertain times. This has fuelled rising unemployment with mature-age workers usually the first to lose their jobs.

According to employment statistics, you will very likely be retrenched two or three times during your working life. This is the new ‘norm’ for the workforce, so you need to develop suitable strategies to move into new areas of employment.

Take heart from knowing that countless other mature-age people have faced the same career challenges that you’re currently facing … and they have succeeded in getting into fantastic, satisfying new careers.

You can too!

This little book covers all you need to know – from the moment the axe falls when you are told you no longer have a job – to what to wear and what to say to WOW the employer at the interview.

They say you can’t teach an old dog new tricks – I strongly disagree!

As a Career Coach, I’ve written applications for thousands of mature-age job applicants and helped them to get satisfying new jobs – often better than the ones they lost.

Every one of these people felt the same as you do right now – Gobsmacked! Helpless! Fearful! Very few knew where to start looking for a job. Most didn’t even have a résumé and had never heard of selection criteria for government jobs.

Like them, your success depends on your willingness and ability to accept change, stay positive, update your skills and learn new ‘tricks’ such as writing a job application and attending an interview. You can do it!

Good luck with your journey…..

Memoir of an extraordinary Ursuline nun, Sister Josephine, who changed the world through her love of music.

Get That Government Job has helped thousands of people to navigate the tricky paths to winning a new job. It contains templates, cheat sheets and checklists to simplify the process.

From-fired-to-hired provides 11 easy steps to help Baby Boomers get back into the workforce after redundancy.

Selection Criteria Toolkit shines a light on the gobbledegook about getting a government job using clear simple English.

I supply ghostwriting services for a wide range of businesses in health, finance, fitness, education, employment, property investment, real estate, careers, community services and private clients.

This neuromarketing ebook provides easy and effective strategies for promoting a fitness management business to its clients.

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