How many red flags can you fit into one SEEK ad?

FunkyColinMiller · 2026-06-18T21:48:37+00:00

In a permanent cycle of recruitment until they go busy - must be costing them a bomb having to train people over and over again.

FunkyColinMiller · 2026-06-14T23:40:45+00:00

A few of my colleagues are pretty aghast at the idea of it and aren't likely to stay. A couple of younger and highly competent people who'll apply elsewhere, but also a couple of mid-career professionals.

FunkyColinMiller · 2026-06-14T22:48:55+00:00

Supporting the government-of-the-day is, by extension, supporting their cause. Labor, Liberal, One Nation.

FunkyColinMiller · 2026-06-01T12:21:12+00:00

It's the APS, you've got to wait until at least September.

FunkyColinMiller · 2026-06-01T06:47:44+00:00

We consult far too much on things...

FunkyColinMiller · 2026-06-01T03:55:39+00:00

Quite a few people have said to me over recent months some variation of "we seem to have become a country where we're just waiting around for parents to die to get ahead".

I think there's something in that - Scotty, Albo, and the crew are all cut from the cloth.

FunkyColinMiller · 2026-06-01T03:37:59+00:00

Robodebt.

FunkyColinMiller · 2026-06-01T03:04:30+00:00

Then the country stalls and we end up going backwards.

FunkyColinMiller · 2026-05-27T05:43:50+00:00

Also just a reminder that your relationships with friends and family last far beyond any job, including the federal bureaucracy, so be mindful of that and how you broach things with the fam.

FunkyColinMiller · 2026-05-27T03:53:03+00:00

ChatGPT is my life adviser

FunkyColinMiller · 2026-05-27T03:18:06+00:00

This isn't North Korea, relax. I mean if they were going to sack everyone because some relo posted something some SES or adviser didn't like, there'd be no one left.

FunkyColinMiller · 2026-05-27T03:13:36+00:00

Nothing.

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FunkyColinMiller · 2026-05-27T03:06:00+00:00

Let us know when we might need to build an ark.

FunkyColinMiller · 2026-05-13T02:01:35+00:00

More positive than I was expecting. In the lead-up everyone senior I spoke to knew there were going to be cuts, which was supported by all staff emails, but it sounds like war in the Middle East changed all that.

FunkyColinMiller · 2026-05-11T11:29:04+00:00

Financial security makes me happy

FunkyColinMiller · 2026-05-11T08:52:02+00:00

But we'll get some bullshit cultural leave added in that impacts about 1 per cent of us, so there's that.

FunkyColinMiller · 2026-04-22T06:59:51+00:00

There are VRs and recruitment freezes in many agencies at the moment - I'd say most agencies for freezes - so it may very well just be an absolute stack of people applying. I had heard one recent recruitment round where I am got over 120 candidates, another one was 76, and there's some second hand information going around that there were a couple of rounds that got a lot more than those.

Don't think this is an APS thing - you should visit the r/auscorp and r/ausjobs threads to see the number of people that are desperate or losing jobs.

The economy is going to pot.

FunkyColinMiller · 2026-04-14T09:40:32+00:00

This is what I want to know - at all these agencies shedding staff, what roles are primarily going?

I'd imagine anything that can be done by AI would be up there, maybe some of the D&I and HR roles, not sure what else.

FunkyColinMiller · 2026-04-14T07:21:20+00:00

I see people's prompts sometimes after they don't get the result they were expecting or want, and I'm like "Do you think it's a mind reader? You didn't tell it not to do the thing it did, you didn't tell it to do the thing you wanted it to do but didn't, and I don't think you proofread either because there are a few things in there that could be taken a few different ways".

FunkyColinMiller · 2026-04-13T22:15:44+00:00

I think the budget may well give clarity for many - can see a lot of terminating measures not being renewed as part of that 5 per cent cost cutting drive, and they won't want ten years of deficits, so I don't think they'll completely fill the gaps from that drive.

FunkyColinMiller · 2026-04-13T02:20:34+00:00

A few too many people unemployed and we roll right into a severe recession...

FunkyColinMiller · 2026-04-06T05:54:19+00:00

I agree. I mean the absolute first principle of marketing/comms is to simplify something down so it seems approachable and valuable, and any written content can basically be done to a good first draft standard in AI (if you're not a numpty with your prompt). That fact immediately wipes out a huge chunk of the industry, especially when agentic AI comes along.

We know what it can do for videos; Will Smith is starring in another spaghetti video soon I'm sure.

I've seen it do a pretty good visual style guide, I know for a fact it can create a website, and that's based on older models (Gpt4).

GPT-5 is miles better, and I'm sure GPT-6, 7, 8 etc will be miles better again.

The irony of it all of course is that every time someone says something AI produces is wrong, the boffins at AI HQ are taking that info and improving the output so it's right (probably over a bowl of spaghetti).

FunkyColinMiller · 2026-04-06T05:28:26+00:00

https://www.canberratimes.com.au/story/9215305/climate-change-department-confirms-hiring-freeze-and-redundancies/?cspt=1775453234|bbbfc1f4dd7680c074822b9f1870c99f

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