--- title: "Resource Blog" description: "Candidates Resource Blog" url: "https://slco.com.au/information-for-candidates/resource-blog/" date_modified: "2026-08-24T17:58:09+10:00" --- # Candidates Resource Blog --- - [How to Design a Role Before You Hire (Not Just Replace the Person)](https://slco.com.au/design-a-role-before-you-hire/) — By Sean Irvine, Inside Motivation When an employee resigns, many managers reach for the same solution: find the old job advertisement, refresh a few details, and repost it within the week. It feels efficient, but reposting an old ad is a replacement decision. It skips the question that matters more: what does this role actually […] - [Storytelling Job Interview Tips: Can You Nail “The Core 4 Stories?”](https://slco.com.au/storytelling-job-interview-tips-core-4-stories/) — Tell “The Core Four” Stories, AND Tell Them Well If you want to ace your job interview, you need to master “The Core Four” stories. These are the kinds of discussions that will appear in almost every interview. Interviewers always want to know about “The Core Four” so make sure to follow these job interview […] - [Top 6 tips on how to be a great referee for your former employee](https://slco.com.au/top-6-tips-how-to-be-a-great-referee-for-former-employee/) — Candidates should be equipped with a minimum of two referees who can confidently offer commentary and insights regarding the employment history. The referee has the responsibility to substantiate the candidate’s employability. Some referees are better than others. Not all referees are created equal.  If you really want to help your former employee, remember these tips. […] - [#1 Best Career Advice](https://slco.com.au/best-career-advice-manage-career-like-playing-a-chess/) — My best career advice – manage your career like playing a game of chess. To succeed in your career, you need to think ahead and make strategic moves that help you reach your long-term goals. Much like chess, you have a variety of moves available to you on a chessboard – you can move forward, […] - [The Best Architectural Sales Consultants](https://slco.com.au/the-best-architectural-sales-consultants/) — Who are the best architectural sales consultants? Let’s start with the difference between an architectural consultant and a specification sales consultant. An architectural consultant focuses mostly on architects and interior designers. A specification sales consultant will focus on everybody – architects to engineers, interior designers, builders, large construction companies, project managers, estimators and often right […] - [Stop being “Ghosted” by recruiters](https://slco.com.au/stop-being-ghosted-by-recruiters/) — “Ghostbusters!” There is lots of talk about being ghosted by recruiters. Job seekers are wanting to limit ghosting, so I have some quick tips to limit ghosting and get the attention of the recruiter that has the job you want. First, let me explain why ghosting occurs. Recruiters are time-poor. They have multiple jobs on and lots […] - [Where do you want to be in 5 years’ time?](https://slco.com.au/where-do-you-want-to-be-in-5-years-time/) — Why are managers asking this question? It is a standard question that is often asked, but the question is why are you asking it? Anything could happen between now and 5 years time. What is the benefit of asking this question in the first place? Potential employees often answer with “I’ll be in your job” […] - [Sales results speak louder than words](https://slco.com.au/sales-results-speak-louder-than-words/) — I have been quoted on the Seek blog talking about unconscious bias previously. Sales Managers often hire people like themselves. Which makes sense – it is great to work with someone who is likeminded and similar to you. You are pretty confident you have a good culture fit and it is so easy to work […] - [New Year, New job](https://slco.com.au/new-year-new-job/) — The Indeed website is suggesting that up 25% of people in the USA have finding a new job as a priority for 2017 and another 27% were open to the possibility of a new job this year. I suspect those figures are comparable in Australia. As they sing at Christmas “It’s the most wonderful time […]