How many of us can say that we’ve shared a luxury yacht with Beyonce and Jay-Z? Looking after the royal hip hop couple while working as a stewardess is just one of the incredible stories Elly Hewitt, Managing Director of Alt/Shift, shared with us over lunch for this...
Rohan Irvine, UX Researcher at REA Group, General Assembly Instructor and Founder of UX Gatherings, says yes. Aware many of his colleagues are working in isolation, Rohan Irvine is teaming up industry groups Ladies That UX, Prototypes & Popcorn, The UX Design...
What’s your current role? I’m the Head of Social Media at Mango Communications. When I started here three years ago, there was one person and a freelancer and now it’s a team in it’s own right. How do you manage client expectations around social? Very carefully, and...
First things first, what is BrandHook? We are a brand insight agency fueled by thought leadership. Our job is to understand the consumer and customer and bring them to life for our clients. This helps us to deliver a strategic recommendation and response to the...
As someone who has worked in almost every top agency in Australia, Executive Producer Ange Lin knows a thing or two about negotiating salaries and contracts. In her early 20’s, she was about to ask for a pay rise. She went in shaking, about to cry when her boss said...
Isle of Lime is a Melbourne based PR agency that promote products and services they are genuinely interested in, with a focus on design and lifestyle. The team also have a soft spot for good cause community programs. Why did you start Isle of Lime? As you work your...
Teresa Truda is a female powerhouse and a real embodiment of the term ‘self-starter’. From a life in digital production (that we at Agency Iceberg were instrumental in), to starting her own eCommerce business to co-founding an investor backed app called Chozun in...
It’s not every day that you meet a former professional tennis player. Nikki Buckley was an Australian ranked junior tennis player, competing in international tournaments for years until making the decision to move into the arts in her early 20’s. These days, Nikki is...
Staying late and showing ‘face’ is a really common theme with a lot of job seekers we talk to. In fact, it’s one of the reasons they look for new jobs; it’s because they feel like the culture thrives on people looking busy instead of actually being efficient. One of...
Brit Gemma Hudson was a scientist before making the switch to PR. “I loved talking far too much to be limited to microscopes”, she says. It was while backpacking in Australia she started to meet what she describes as “people like me”. Now the National General Manager...
Ange Lin refers to herself as a professional delegator; but we prefer to call her a philosopher. “I’m more of a doer than a talker”, Ange explains over brunch in Fitzroy, a little inquisitive as to why we’re meeting to discuss her career. A massive understatement....
Fee Townshend remembers the time she was shoulder tapped to lead PR Edge. ‘Did she know anyone?’ her boss asked her. She instantly thought of a handful of stand out women she knew in her network. ‘I meant you,’ he eventually told her. ‘Did you want the job?’ Eight...