Welcome to the latest episode of Strivin & Thrivin, the career development podcast inspiring you to make some bold changes.

During this week’s episode, we chat to Adele Moynihan, Global Head of Founder Strategies at Antler Australia. Adele tells us what it’s like working with a different calibre of candidates - ones unmotivated by money, job titles or perks, but driven by their want to change the world for the better. It’s one not to miss!

Enjoy our latest episode and be sure to sign up to Strivin & Thrivin for more career insights, mentorships and learning materials!

Welcome to the latest episode of Strivin & Thrivin, the career development podcast inspiring you to make some bold changes.

This week we explore how VR and recruitment can be used to great effect. Stan Rolfe, Training Manager at Training Unlimited shares his own experience, having taken the plunge with VR technology in a recruitment roll-out to great success. He shares invaluable insight into the learnings he’s taken from his experience, the challenges and the setbacks. For those looking to experiment with different recruitment techniques for long-term, successful recruits, this podcast is not to be missed.

Enjoy our latest episode and be sure to sign up to Strivin & Thrivin for more career insights, mentorships and learning materials!

Welcome to the latest episode of Strivin & Thrivin, the career development podcast inspiring you to make some bold changes.

In our latest episode, we catch up with Hope Dawson, Founder of Forme Consultancy to discuss the challenges of running your own HR consultancy. Covering everything from juggling multiple projects and clients, to overcoming mistakes. Hope shares insight into overcoming your fears both personal and professional and learning more about yourself along the way.

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Welcome to the latest episode of Strivin & Thrivin, the career development podcast inspiring you to make some bold changes.

During this week’s episode, we chat to Cloë Stanbridge, Talent Acquisition Lead at The Lab17. We discuss the differences between hiring in house versus agency recruitment, what it's like working for a fast-growing startup and now how Cloë is helping The Lab17 enable tech companies to scale their teams, and accelerate their growth. During our chat, we delve into what it takes to build a successful company culture as you’re mass-hiring and how to instil confidence in your stakeholders.

Enjoy our latest episode and be sure to sign up to Strivin & Thrivin for more career insights, mentorships and learning materials!

Welcome to the latest episode of Strivin & Thrivin, the career development podcast inspiring you to make some bold changes.

This week we chat to Pavi Iyer, Talent Acquisition Leader. Covering everything from imposter syndrome at work to knowing your worth, we address the uncomfortable conversations people still aren’t having in the workplace and how HR professionals are working to combat this.

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We love hearing from passionate, successful HR professionals and this week we spoke to Sarah Blackmore, People and Culture leader.

You’ll soon appreciate Sarah's love and enthusiasm for the industry and her constructive outlook on things as she takes us on a journey back through her career and teaches you how to broaden your horizons to better understand the space you operate in.

During our chat, we hear about Sarah’s job history and her approach to getting on the career ladder, something she feels fell into place later in life. Addressing the ever-prominent issue a huge number of us have faced - or are currently facing- of trying to figure out what you want to do as a career, Sarah tells us her road to starting out wasn’t so smooth and how temping set her off initially.

“Temping for me was like the gateway into being able to try different environments and try different kinds of work and see what stuck.”

Admitting she only found what she truly loved doing in her thirties, we go on to learn of how her previous roles were a learning curve and steered her toward where she is now, yet not still without its setbacks. Like most us of, Sarah had those moments of feeling directionless.

“Not knowing where I wanted to go was mainly because I just didn't know what I was capable of and what could potentially be possible for me.”

Having started in event planning in a completely different role, she has come 360 to work for Eventbase to look after their people.

“I actually think it's the same mindset that made me happy in events that makes me really, really happy in people.”

But how are those in the event industry coping during a global pandemic? She, like many, has had to change and adapt to a new way of working and looking after people at work during this time is increasingly important.

“Our business has been completely turned on its head, which has been incredibly difficult, but also incredibly interesting from a people person’s perspective because it's given me [the] opportunity to do things that maybe I would never have been able to do.”

Throughout our podcast, we cover a number of topics in HR and recruitment and, of course, the importance of mentoring.

“One of my big passions is middle management and middle management coaching because they typically are the guys that are left a little bit behind.”

To hear more insight from Sarah on the challenges smaller businesses face when it comes to tackling issues such as remote working, facilities and larger ongoing issues such as inclusivity, listen to this week’s Strivin & Thrivin podcast. Sharing real stories and real insight every week!

This week on the Strivin & Thrivin podcast we caught up with Michael Delaney, Head of Talent at Humanforce, the shift-based workforce platform. For those considering a career change, Michael shares insight into his successful and unexpected career pivot, or should we say pirouette?

The first 15 years of his career, Micheal spent as a professional ballet dancer, performing everything from Swan Lake to Bananas in Pyjamas. Now, in a completely different field of work, he can still be relied upon to get the dancefloor moving. During our chat, we discuss what it takes to make a complete career change and the people who helped him succeed.

“It's funny, you know, when you talk to someone who really knows what they're doing, it's amazing, the insights that you get - who knew that experts could really help you grow and plan?”

Michael reflects fondly on his first female mentor, during a time when mentors were formally recognised and gets to the crux of what it means to be a good mentor.

“It's not always about telling them what to do. It's about asking them questions and letting them come to the realization that they could maybe look at things in a different way.”

The past year has seen Michael juggle being both a mentee and a mentor. Supporting those who have lost their jobs due to COVID, he has been working for a programme called Jobs for Australia, career coaching and guiding mentees on how to navigate the unknown landscape. Killing two birds with one stone, he also used the platform to land his new role at Humanforce.

During our conversation, we learn the value people can gain both personally and professionally, by having a mentor from someone who has been on both sides of the fence.

“I have a personal mantra in life that every day try and make somebody feel better and mentoring is a great way to make people feel better.”

Listen to Michael’s podcast on Strivin & Thrivin now, where we learn what it takes to be a successful career mentor and how Michael went from one-man show to team player.

This week on the Strivin & Thrivin podcast we chat to Amy Cotterill, Global Talent Acquisition Lead at Xref.

Amy talks about something we’ve all experienced. Trying to be a ‘yes’ person, taking on too much and struggling with an unmanageable workload. There are some of us who have painfully tried to struggle through unmanageable to-do lists, got things wrong, missed things out and even experienced burnout.

“I'm a natural people pleaser... I used this to just say, yeah, okay… and then I'd look at what I have to do and I'd be so overwhelmed.”

During our time with Amy we learn how she now manages her workflow, how mentors have helped her prioritise her workload, stakeholder management and refine her expectations. In doing so, she shares her advice on managing a mentor relationship.

“Be prepared, , know what you want to get out of the session...They can't give you the Holy grail”.

Having a fairly linear career path, Amy started out in recruitment, building a strong network of contacts and an impressive skill set as her roles gradually evolved and expanded. But growth didn’t happen without putting herself out there and pushing the boundaries of what she was comfortable with - something she has encouraged herself to do ever since moving from the UK to Australia eight years ago.

If you’re looking to hear more about self-management and managing not only your own expectations but that of leaders around you, give Amy’s Strivin & Thrivin podcast a listen!

After moving to Sydney 13 years ago, Scottish-born Neil Gunning tells us he learned a lot about “having fire in the belly” and the importance of hustle, while being strategic and resourceful.

Neil started out in recruitment as a teenager learning the beginnings of his craft in various agencies in Scotland.

Today, he works for Frollo, the Australian FinTech company and open banking leader teaching users to be smarter with their money as well as NextGen.net, a technology provider to the mortgage lending industry. But the hustle doesn’t stop there, Neil is also the Director of Tech Life Sydney, an employer branding as a service platform and has his own passion project on the side, Fletch & Bob, a specialty coffee  business and no-doubt the fuel behind his hustle.

In our latest episode of Strivin & Thrivin podcast, we caught up with Neil to talk about his professional experience. Just a few of the topics we cover are:

LEADERSHIP

What Neil has learned from other leaders and what he aspires to be like as a leader.

“If you're in a leadership role, you're there to have an opinion, you're there to bring your experience and bring your lens to whatever context you're working in. And, and if you're not going to back yourself why would anyone else?”

MENTORSHIP

Having two mentors himself, we cover the importance of extracting value from them, what questions you need to be asking and how you should approach your mentor.

“You need to have respect for that person and need to know that you're actually going to be able to learn from them.”

BALANCE

We find out what life experiences, outside of the professional field have taught Neil about himself, about his approach to work and in achieving balance.

Listen to our latest Strivin & Thrivin podcast for invaluable insight into Neil’s successfully diverse career within talent acquisition and beyond.