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How to hire someone: the small business guide
The whole process end to end, in order, with realistic timeframes: from deciding what you actually need through to day 30.
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How to write a job ad that actually gets applications
The anatomy of an ad that pulls candidates — and the eight writing habits that cost you applicants before anyone has read a word about the role.
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What not to do when you're hiring
Fourteen specific, common, expensive mistakes — from the eleven-week vacancy to the reference check nobody does — and what to do instead of each.
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Australian job boards, compared
What SEEK, Indeed, Jora, LinkedIn and the rest actually cost, who they reach, and which one suits the role you're filling — including where the big boards genuinely win.
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What a hire actually costs you
Advertising is the smallest line item. Here's the full picture — owner hours, vacancy cost, ramp-up, and what a mis-hire really costs — with Australian benchmarks.
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Job ad templates you can actually use
Four complete worked examples, plus the reusable skeleton underneath them.
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Should you put the salary in your job ad?
The objections, honestly assessed — and what to publish when you can't publish a number.
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How to screen 80 applications in 90 minutes
A two-minute-per-application method, the signals worth reading for, and the ones that waste your time.
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Interview questions that actually tell you something
Five questions, a scoring method, and the popular questions that predict nothing.
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Where to advertise a job in Australia
Every channel open to an Australian SME, named, with what each costs and where it wins.
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What do you actually have to pay?
Finding the right award, and what the legal floor actually is once loading, penalties and super are counted.
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Casual, part-time or full-time?
What legally separates the four types, what each costs, and the trap of calling someone casual when they are not.
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Advertising a role you might sponsor
What labour market testing demands of the ad itself, and the salary thresholds that decide whether sponsorship is even possible.
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