Life took an unexpected twist when Chryssie Swarbrick found out she was pregnant while hunting for a job. These days, Chryssie is a freelance content creator, managing workloads and clients around her newborn baby. She chats to us about how she made the leap from a...
If you were given the opportunity to launch your own business doing something you love that required you relocate to China, would you pack your life up and jump on that plane? This Leading Lady did. We sat down with Teresa Truda, Co-Founder and CEO of chozun, to hear...
Dave Calleja and Julia Birks, both Experience Design Leads at Isobar, had us in stitches at a Content Meet Up earlier this year with their sense of humour and passion for all things UX. We cornered them over coffee to ask them: does having someone in your corner at...
Audrey has one hell of a job. As the Marketing Manager at creative studio HM and Managing Editor for fluoro, she divvies up her time between interviewing high profile personalities, developing strategies and managing a team. We talked to her about extracting intimate...
A common question asked by our Talents each day in our office is, “Do I need a LinkedIn profile?” In short, yes! In early 2016, LinkedIn reported a total of 450 million users, with two new users joining every second. Having an up to date LinkedIn profile will make...
Catherine Hills is a UX Lead at REA Group, but a more fitting title might be Modern Day Superwoman. As well as being one of the Leads in the UX division at REA, she’s a Lead Instructor (UXD) at General Assembly, is completing a thesis as part of a Master of Business,...
How much should I ask for? When’s the right time to ask? What if I’ve already accepted an offer and want to change my mind? These are just some of the questions we get asked regularly here at Agency Iceberg. Negotiating a pay rise and communicating your worth...
‘Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes’, sang David Bowie. Was he talking about our leading lady, Harry Wray by chance? Harry is the Director of Operations at CHE Proximity and managing many moving parts is her forte. In fact, navigating change while managing multiple stakeholders is...
Australia’s freelance economy has grown to over 4 million people, meaning nearly one third of our workforce now takes part in freelance work. That’s pretty huge. It’s no surprise then that there’s a growing demand for functional, collaborative and inspiring work...
For someone who based their impression of agency life on a Hollywood heteronormative rom com narrative, it was refreshing to chat to Julia Birks, Lead Experience Designer at digital agency Isobar about her experience in the agency world. As a vivacious and charismatic...
Let’s face it, if you had to name twenty things you enjoy doing, job interviews wouldn't necessarily feature in your top five loves. Under nerve-wracking circumstances, we all say things a little less smoothly than what we practised at home, and can even say things we...
From agency to in house, Melbourne to Ballarat, and herding sheep in the mud on the weekend, to corporate boss lady during the week, this week’s Leading Lady is the ridiculously charismatic Louise Laing, General Manager of Marketing at Visit Ballarat. Louise made time...