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I help experienced tech professionals in ANZ get unstuck, choose their next move, and position their experience so the market responds 🟡 Coached 300+ SWEs, PMs & tech leaders 🟡 Principal Tech Recruiter @ Atlassian
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Most experienced tech professionals aren’t underqualified.
They’re operating in a hiring market that rarely explains itself.
You do the work.
You apply.
You interview.
Then things go quiet.
No feedback. Just silence that forces you to guess what to do next.
After 10+ years recruiting tech talent across Australia, NZ, and Europe including inside Atlassian for the past 4 years. I’ve seen this pattern repeat again & again.
The market doesn’t reward effort.
It rewards positioning, timing, and judgment.
That’s where capable people get stuck.
Not because they lack skill, but because they’re making career decisions without the right context.
When that context is missing, people default to guessing:
- applying more instead of repositioning
- waiting longer instead of recalibrating
- accepting “safe” roles that quietly limit future options
Over time, the risk isn’t just a slow job search.
It’s making a move that looks sensible now but narrows what’s possible later.
And after enough mixed signals, another problem creeps in:
people stop trusting their own judgment.
Not because they’ve lost ability, but because every decision starts to feel higher-risk when the feedback loop is broken.
I help experienced software engineers, PMs, data professionals, and tech leaders:
• understand what hiring signals actually mean
• position their experience clearly for the roles they want
• decide what to pursue, what to ignore, and when not to move at all
This isn’t generic advice or imported playbooks from the US.
It’s grounded in how the ANZ hiring market actually works.
Since starting Careersy, I’ve worked more than 300+ tech professionals navigating:
• stalled job searches
• ambiguous interview feedback
• senior role transitions
• offer decisions that look good on paper but feel risky in context
Many Careersy clients start seeing interview traction within the first 30 days, not because of hacks, but because their positioning becomes clearer and easier for the market to read.
Some land new roles.
Some negotiate better outcomes.
Some realise that not moving is the right call.
The common thread isn’t speed.
It’s having enough context to stop second-guessing the next move and enough perspective to trust your judgment again.
That’s why I built Careersy Coaching and the Careersy Community as a place to:
• test decisions before making them
• get principal recruiter perspective
• stop interpreting silence in isolation
If you’re experienced and facing a real career decision lets talk
PS: Careersy is my own venture and not affiliated with Atlassian. All views are my own
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Eli Gündüz reposted thisThe standard advice when a recruiter goes silent is: wait 5 to 7 business days, send a polite follow-up, don't take it personally. I want to push back on that. Ghosting a candidate after a good first call isn't okay. It's not "just how hiring works." It's a profession-wide failure, and as recruiters we should be calling it out instead of explaining it away. If someone's given you 30 minutes of their time and you've told them they're a strong match, the minimum you owe them is a two-line email when the answer changes. A real sentence that lets them close the loop. The growing distrust candidates have in recruiters is earned. We did that. And look, I fall in this too sometimes. I'm typically running 15 to 25 active candidates at any time. Things slip. But here's the difference. When the email comes in, "Eli, do you have any feedback?" I'm calling them the same day. Not next week. That day. Because the delay is my fault, not theirs. Now, the candidate side. Silence after a good call is almost always one of three things: 1) Process silence. The recruiter is waiting on hiring manager feedback or an internal approval. Unfortunately, this can take time. Interviewers and the hiring managers are also extremely busy. But you're still in. They just have nothing new to tell you. 2) Conviction silence. You've been parked as the backup while they test a safer option. You're not out. You're secondary. Your job is to reduce the perceived risk of hiring you, not to ask for updates. 3) Rejection silence. They've decided no and don't want to send the email. This is the one that shouldn't happen and does. You can't tell which one you're in from the outside. So the move is the same: send a small, low-effort signal that makes replying easy. Here's the sequence I give clients. ↳24 hours after the call. One short note. Name one thing from the conversation that reinforced your interest. No questions. No ask. ↳5 to 7 business days later, if no reply. One short email. Not "just checking in." Try: "Happy to clarify anything on the reliability question we discussed. Is a next step decided yet?" Easy to answer in one sentence. ↳10 to 14 days after that, if still nothing. Call their mobile if you have it. Then send the closer. "I'm now in late stages with another process and need to firm up timelines by Friday. Still very interested if this one's live. Either way, appreciate the context." Two emails, then the phone. Then you let it go. That second email is usually the one that works. Speaking from the receiving side, that's the one that makes me pick up the phone. You've made replying cost them nothing. You've protected your own timeline. You haven't chased. Silence is a signal about the process, not about you. Don't rebuild your whole CV because one recruiter went quiet. Run the sequence and move on. And if you're a recruiter reading this, send the email. It takes thirty seconds. The candidate will remember.
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Eli Gündüz shared thisThe standard advice when a recruiter goes silent is: wait 5 to 7 business days, send a polite follow-up, don't take it personally. I want to push back on that. Ghosting a candidate after a good first call isn't okay. It's not "just how hiring works." It's a profession-wide failure, and as recruiters we should be calling it out instead of explaining it away. If someone's given you 30 minutes of their time and you've told them they're a strong match, the minimum you owe them is a two-line email when the answer changes. A real sentence that lets them close the loop. The growing distrust candidates have in recruiters is earned. We did that. And look, I fall in this too sometimes. I'm typically running 15 to 25 active candidates at any time. Things slip. But here's the difference. When the email comes in, "Eli, do you have any feedback?" I'm calling them the same day. Not next week. That day. Because the delay is my fault, not theirs. Now, the candidate side. Silence after a good call is almost always one of three things: 1) Process silence. The recruiter is waiting on hiring manager feedback or an internal approval. Unfortunately, this can take time. Interviewers and the hiring managers are also extremely busy. But you're still in. They just have nothing new to tell you. 2) Conviction silence. You've been parked as the backup while they test a safer option. You're not out. You're secondary. Your job is to reduce the perceived risk of hiring you, not to ask for updates. 3) Rejection silence. They've decided no and don't want to send the email. This is the one that shouldn't happen and does. You can't tell which one you're in from the outside. So the move is the same: send a small, low-effort signal that makes replying easy. Here's the sequence I give clients. ↳24 hours after the call. One short note. Name one thing from the conversation that reinforced your interest. No questions. No ask. ↳5 to 7 business days later, if no reply. One short email. Not "just checking in." Try: "Happy to clarify anything on the reliability question we discussed. Is a next step decided yet?" Easy to answer in one sentence. ↳10 to 14 days after that, if still nothing. Call their mobile if you have it. Then send the closer. "I'm now in late stages with another process and need to firm up timelines by Friday. Still very interested if this one's live. Either way, appreciate the context." Two emails, then the phone. Then you let it go. That second email is usually the one that works. Speaking from the receiving side, that's the one that makes me pick up the phone. You've made replying cost them nothing. You've protected your own timeline. You haven't chased. Silence is a signal about the process, not about you. Don't rebuild your whole CV because one recruiter went quiet. Run the sequence and move on. And if you're a recruiter reading this, send the email. It takes thirty seconds. The candidate will remember.
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Eli Gündüz posted thisHis wife booked the discovery call. He didn't know she had. 23 years in tech. Never been out of work. Until February 2026. Back in Melbourne after a decade overseas. 30+ applications. Zero interviews. Then he said this. "I don't know what the hell is going on anymore." That's the real problem. Not the market. The not knowing. When you haven't looked for a job in ten years, the playbook in your head is old. The market doesn't work that way anymore. Here's what I found when we looked at his setup. - His LinkedIn was invisible. Headline was his last job title and last role company name. About section written a decade ago. A recruiter searching "IT Operations Manager Melbourne" wouldn't find him on page five. -His resume was a Gemini output. Not adapted. Not guided. Reads fine to a human. But the real problem was that there wasn;'t any real strategy or positioning done. AI was just agreeing: "yeah mate, looking good. send it!" -His process: see jobs on Seek and Linkedin, create alerts, tailor with AI, apply, refresh, repeat and wait.... That maybe worked 4 years ago. Every open tech role in ANZ gets hundreds of applicants now. AI made applying free and "easy". So the filter moved. It's not just the application anymore. It's what's behind it. Your LinkedIn. Your network. Whether anyone's heard of you before your CV lands in the pile. The problem was this was the only thing he knew how to do. Apply more. And it was making things worse. Sometimes he got a rejection. Most of the time he got nothing. He was invisible... Try these 4 fixes before another application goes out. 1) LinkedIn that matches what recruiters actually search. Title, skills, location, keywords in the right spots. 2) A resume with strategy. Not AI output. A document that tells a hiring manager, why you have the relevant skills for the role with the correct evidence to back it up. Yes this takes time. An intentional CV beats a copy-paste one every time. 3) Show up inside your target companies before you apply. Comment on the hiring manager's post. Be a name the team has seen before. 4) Connect with people inside your target companies. Not a mass blast. Ten names. Read their work (if they post). Comment first. Then connect. Again be intentional and authentic. That's what changes the response rate. Not just more volume. His wife watched him apply for months. Watched him get quieter every week. Googled around and found Careersy Coaching. She booked the 15 minutes herself. That's usually how it starts. The person in it can't always see it. Someone who loves them sees it first. If that's you right now, reading this for someone else, forward it please.
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Eli Gündüz reposted thisMy client got an offer yesterday. He’s not taking it. At least not yet. There’s a point in every job search where your brain stops asking questions. You’ve prepared, ground through rounds, kept your energy up. Then the offer lands and something switches off. It’s like your guard is slightly down. You’re in the honeymoon. You found the finish line. But the offer isn’t the finish line. It’s a fork. I was on a call yesterday with a client in exactly that moment. Offer in hand. Excited, rightfully. The company had even cut a round short because they liked him. He knew 4 things. - Eight direct reports. - Better title. - Better money. - Rough scope of the position. That was it. He didn’t know if those eight people were high performers or a team someone had already given up on. He didn’t know where that team sat in the organisation or what they were actually there to do. The impact was fuzzy. And he’d almost said yes anyway. So I asked him these questions. What’s your overarching career goal? Where do you actually want to get to? Head of Engineering, he said. Okay. So in the next 12 to 18 months in this role, are you getting closer to that, further away, or staying exactly where you are? He went quiet. Here’s something everyone can do. Pull up three or four Head of Engineering job descriptions (or roles you desire to land in one day). Look at the scope, the requirements, the kind of experience they’re asking for. Then look at what this role will actually give you over the next year. Does it close the gap or not? We realised he didn’t know enough about the role to make a decision. He’s going back to the company this week. Story to be continued… Worth remembering: The offer tells you the number. It doesn’t tell you where you’re going. That’s your job to find out. And the time to do it is during the process, not after you’ve signed.
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Eli Gündüz posted thisMy client got an offer yesterday. He’s not taking it. At least not yet. There’s a point in every job search where your brain stops asking questions. You’ve prepared, ground through rounds, kept your energy up. Then the offer lands and something switches off. It’s like your guard is slightly down. You’re in the honeymoon. You found the finish line. But the offer isn’t the finish line. It’s a fork. I was on a call yesterday with a client in exactly that moment. Offer in hand. Excited, rightfully. The company had even cut a round short because they liked him. He knew 4 things. - Eight direct reports. - Better title. - Better money. - Rough scope of the position. That was it. He didn’t know if those eight people were high performers or a team someone had already given up on. He didn’t know where that team sat in the organisation or what they were actually there to do. The impact was fuzzy. And he’d almost said yes anyway. So I asked him these questions. What’s your overarching career goal? Where do you actually want to get to? Head of Engineering, he said. Okay. So in the next 12 to 18 months in this role, are you getting closer to that, further away, or staying exactly where you are? He went quiet. Here’s something everyone can do. Pull up three or four Head of Engineering job descriptions (or roles you desire to land in one day). Look at the scope, the requirements, the kind of experience they’re asking for. Then look at what this role will actually give you over the next year. Does it close the gap or not? We realised he didn’t know enough about the role to make a decision. He’s going back to the company this week. Story to be continued… Worth remembering: The offer tells you the number. It doesn’t tell you where you’re going. That’s your job to find out. And the time to do it is during the process, not after you’ve signed.
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Eli Gündüz reposted thisMost candidates treat interview questions like trivia. The interviewer asks, they answer, hopefully they sound good. That is not what is happening on the other side of the table. Every common question is a probe for a specific signal. The question is the wrapper. The signal is what gets scored. Signal is the evidence the interviewer is actually looking for underneath the question. Not your words. The thing your words prove about you. When you answer the wrapper instead of the signal, you lose points you did not know were on the board. Three examples. 1) "Tell me about yourself." This sounds like a warm-up. It is not. It is a positioning test. The interviewer is checking whether you can pick the parts of your story that matter for this role and company. Most people list their CV chronologically and sound like every other candidate. The strong answers pick one thread and point it straight at this role. Answer the signal: what you do now, the relevant thread running through your past roles, and why this one is the next step. Three parts. 90 seconds. Done. 2) "Why do you want to work here?" This is not about flattery. It is an effort check. The interviewer is trying to work out if you actually know what this company does and why you would be good here, or if you are spraying applications at anything that moves. Generic answers about culture and mission score zero. They sound like every other candidate. Specific answers about the team, the stage the company is in, or a recent product decision score high. It shows you did the work before you walked in. Answer the signal: one thing you like about this company that is not true of their main competitor. 3) "What is your greatest weakness?" This is the most misunderstood question in tech interviews. It is not a trap. It is a self-awareness test. The interviewer is not trying to catch you out. They are looking for whether you can name one honestly, show you know where it surfaces, and explain what you do about it. Candidates who deflect with fake weaknesses like "I care too much" fail it instantly. Candidates who name a real one and describe their system for managing it pass it instantly. Answer the signal: a real limitation, the context where it shows up, and what you do about it. Every common interview question is an iceberg. The tip is the question itself. The real scoring happens underneath. Most candidates answer the tip. The ones who pass the interview answer what is below the waterline. Once you learn to see what is underneath, the same question stops being cliché and starts being useful. Which one trips you up the most?
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Eli Gündüz posted thisMost candidates treat interview questions like trivia. The interviewer asks, they answer, hopefully they sound good. That is not what is happening on the other side of the table. Every common question is a probe for a specific signal. The question is the wrapper. The signal is what gets scored. Signal is the evidence the interviewer is actually looking for underneath the question. Not your words. The thing your words prove about you. When you answer the wrapper instead of the signal, you lose points you did not know were on the board. Three examples. 1) "Tell me about yourself." This sounds like a warm-up. It is not. It is a positioning test. The interviewer is checking whether you can pick the parts of your story that matter for this role and company. Most people list their CV chronologically and sound like every other candidate. The strong answers pick one thread and point it straight at this role. Answer the signal: what you do now, the relevant thread running through your past roles, and why this one is the next step. Three parts. 90 seconds. Done. 2) "Why do you want to work here?" This is not about flattery. It is an effort check. The interviewer is trying to work out if you actually know what this company does and why you would be good here, or if you are spraying applications at anything that moves. Generic answers about culture and mission score zero. They sound like every other candidate. Specific answers about the team, the stage the company is in, or a recent product decision score high. It shows you did the work before you walked in. Answer the signal: one thing you like about this company that is not true of their main competitor. 3) "What is your greatest weakness?" This is the most misunderstood question in tech interviews. It is not a trap. It is a self-awareness test. The interviewer is not trying to catch you out. They are looking for whether you can name one honestly, show you know where it surfaces, and explain what you do about it. Candidates who deflect with fake weaknesses like "I care too much" fail it instantly. Candidates who name a real one and describe their system for managing it pass it instantly. Answer the signal: a real limitation, the context where it shows up, and what you do about it. Every common interview question is an iceberg. The tip is the question itself. The real scoring happens underneath. Most candidates answer the tip. The ones who pass the interview answer what is below the waterline. Once you learn to see what is underneath, the same question stops being cliché and starts being useful. Which one trips you up the most?
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Eli Gündüz reposted thisImagine you're locked out of your laptop right now. Not at the end of the month. Right now. This afternoon. Email gone. Slack gone. Confluence, Jira, Notion, all of it. The Jiraboard you built that reduced onboarding time by 30%. The 1:1 note where your manager said you were "the most commercially minded engineer on the team." The decision log from the project you led across three time zones. Gone. Not deleted. Just no longer yours to access. With layoffs hitting ANZ tech teams harder than at any point in the last decade, this is not a hypothetical. It is happening to people since beginning of January 2026. Laptops wiped within hours of the announcement. That is just how offboarding works. But I want you to remember something important: the evidence that makes you hireable is stored on systems you do not own. The moment the role ends, so does your access to it. Three weeks into a job search, most people try to reconstruct it from memory. What comes out is "led a team" instead of "shipped a feature to 40k users, reduced churn by 12%, resolved a scope conflict with two PMs in the same sprint." Same person. One is hireable. The other is invisible. The fix takes ten minutes a week or fortnight or month (whatever works for you). Open a Google Doc or Notion page in your personal account. Not your work one. Every Friday, write down five things: what you shipped, any numbers attached, decisions you made, feedback you received, and links to artefacts saved to your personal drive. That is it. Six months in, you have a CV that writes itself. Two years in, you have a career record no offboarding process can touch. One important caveat. Write it the way you would say it in an interview with a competitor in the room. Describe what you built in your own words, at a level you would be comfortable saying out loud. No screenshots of internal dashboards. No confidential figures. No customer data. You are not logging proof of what happened inside the company. You are logging proof of what you are capable of. Those are different things, and the second one does not need any of the first to be powerful. Start this week. Ten minutes. I've written about this in more depth inside the The Careersy Community and to make your life easier, I've put together an AI prompt in the comments that turns your raw weekly notes into CV and interview-ready material.
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Eli Gündüz posted thisImagine you're locked out of your laptop right now. Not at the end of the month. Right now. This afternoon. Email gone. Slack gone. Confluence, Jira, Notion, all of it. The Jiraboard you built that reduced onboarding time by 30%. The 1:1 note where your manager said you were "the most commercially minded engineer on the team." The decision log from the project you led across three time zones. Gone. Not deleted. Just no longer yours to access. With layoffs hitting ANZ tech teams harder than at any point in the last decade, this is not a hypothetical. It is happening to people since beginning of January 2026. Laptops wiped within hours of the announcement. That is just how offboarding works. But I want you to remember something important: the evidence that makes you hireable is stored on systems you do not own. The moment the role ends, so does your access to it. Three weeks into a job search, most people try to reconstruct it from memory. What comes out is "led a team" instead of "shipped a feature to 40k users, reduced churn by 12%, resolved a scope conflict with two PMs in the same sprint." Same person. One is hireable. The other is invisible. The fix takes ten minutes a week or fortnight or month (whatever works for you). Open a Google Doc or Notion page in your personal account. Not your work one. Every Friday, write down five things: what you shipped, any numbers attached, decisions you made, feedback you received, and links to artefacts saved to your personal drive. That is it. Six months in, you have a CV that writes itself. Two years in, you have a career record no offboarding process can touch. One important caveat. Write it the way you would say it in an interview with a competitor in the room. Describe what you built in your own words, at a level you would be comfortable saying out loud. No screenshots of internal dashboards. No confidential figures. No customer data. You are not logging proof of what happened inside the company. You are logging proof of what you are capable of. Those are different things, and the second one does not need any of the first to be powerful. Start this week. Ten minutes. I've written about this in more depth inside the The Careersy Community and to make your life easier, I've put together an AI prompt in the comments that turns your raw weekly notes into CV and interview-ready material.
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Eli Gündüz liked thisEli Gündüz liked thisToday we are celebrating at humaneer 🎉 We just hit a milestone.... Mak has given HR professionals across ANZ... 5 years back. FIVE. YEARS. That is 9,000+ hours. 1,200 working days. Returned to HR professionals who were spending them on admin, documentation and compliance searching. And for businesses wondering what that means - that is over $1,000,000 AUD in HR time freed up to do other things. It is not just 5 years saved. ✅ It is 5 years to support change management. ✅ 5 years to enable leadership and the business. ✅ 5 years to build the strategy and the people programs that actually move organisations forward. We set out three years ago to make HR easier. This is what that looks like when that starts to happen. To the HR professionals trusting Mak with your most consequential work, Thank you . You are the reason we are doing this 🫶 Mak v2.0 is being built right now. We are just getting started Happy blinking Friday 😀 humaneer Kimberly Burns Andrea Kirby
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Eli Gündüz liked thisThe standard advice when a recruiter goes silent is: wait 5 to 7 business days, send a polite follow-up, don't take it personally. I want to push back on that. Ghosting a candidate after a good first call isn't okay. It's not "just how hiring works." It's a profession-wide failure, and as recruiters we should be calling it out instead of explaining it away. If someone's given you 30 minutes of their time and you've told them they're a strong match, the minimum you owe them is a two-line email when the answer changes. A real sentence that lets them close the loop. The growing distrust candidates have in recruiters is earned. We did that. And look, I fall in this too sometimes. I'm typically running 15 to 25 active candidates at any time. Things slip. But here's the difference. When the email comes in, "Eli, do you have any feedback?" I'm calling them the same day. Not next week. That day. Because the delay is my fault, not theirs. Now, the candidate side. Silence after a good call is almost always one of three things: 1) Process silence. The recruiter is waiting on hiring manager feedback or an internal approval. Unfortunately, this can take time. Interviewers and the hiring managers are also extremely busy. But you're still in. They just have nothing new to tell you. 2) Conviction silence. You've been parked as the backup while they test a safer option. You're not out. You're secondary. Your job is to reduce the perceived risk of hiring you, not to ask for updates. 3) Rejection silence. They've decided no and don't want to send the email. This is the one that shouldn't happen and does. You can't tell which one you're in from the outside. So the move is the same: send a small, low-effort signal that makes replying easy. Here's the sequence I give clients. ↳24 hours after the call. One short note. Name one thing from the conversation that reinforced your interest. No questions. No ask. ↳5 to 7 business days later, if no reply. One short email. Not "just checking in." Try: "Happy to clarify anything on the reliability question we discussed. Is a next step decided yet?" Easy to answer in one sentence. ↳10 to 14 days after that, if still nothing. Call their mobile if you have it. Then send the closer. "I'm now in late stages with another process and need to firm up timelines by Friday. Still very interested if this one's live. Either way, appreciate the context." Two emails, then the phone. Then you let it go. That second email is usually the one that works. Speaking from the receiving side, that's the one that makes me pick up the phone. You've made replying cost them nothing. You've protected your own timeline. You haven't chased. Silence is a signal about the process, not about you. Don't rebuild your whole CV because one recruiter went quiet. Run the sequence and move on. And if you're a recruiter reading this, send the email. It takes thirty seconds. The candidate will remember.
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Eli Gündüz reacted on thisEli Gündüz reacted on thisToday, I’m taking on the role as CEO of LinkedIn. I joined LinkedIn in May 2008 as employee #300ish, and it’s easy to say that my time at the company has been one of the most meaningful experiences of my life. It’s shaped me as a person for the better because of our people, our culture, our mission and vision, and the way we come together to take on meaningful challenges and create real impact. All of it. LinkedIn is about economic opportunity, and growing up I remember hearing stories of finding economic opportunity from my own family history, with my grandparents opening up local businesses in Maine and Pennsylvania to create a better life for their young families. The power of economic opportunity and the promise of LinkedIn has never been more important than it is today as the world is transformed by AI and professionals everywhere must transition along with it. I’d like to take a moment to thank Mike Gamson for hiring me and teaching me about building exceptional culture, Ryan Roslansky for his leadership and partnership over the many years of working together (and in advance for the years ahead), and all my fellow LinkedIn employees for the opportunity to learn with and from them. As I step into this role, similar to how I have approached new responsibilities in the past, I’ll start by learning and listening… connecting with our team, members, creators, and customers, each of whom make LinkedIn the platform that helps create economic opportunity.
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Growing Australia's #1 Tech Career Community
The Careersy Community
- Present 10 months
Greater Sydney Area
Building The Careersy Community 🚀
For tech professionals in Australia & New Zealand tired of job search limbo.
→ Staff+ roles with no replies.
→ Referrals that go nowhere.
→ Career growth that feels foggy.
I’ve been there. Skills? Solid.
Responses? Crickets.
Talent alone isn’t enough. You need insider plays, proof-backed strategy, and a real network.
That’s what Careersy delivers.
What changes when you join:
✅ Proven assets – DM scripts, referral…Building The Careersy Community 🚀
For tech professionals in Australia & New Zealand tired of job search limbo.
→ Staff+ roles with no replies.
→ Referrals that go nowhere.
→ Career growth that feels foggy.
I’ve been there. Skills? Solid.
Responses? Crickets.
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Founder & Australia's #1 Tech Career Coach
Careersy Coaching
- Present 5 years 4 months
Greater Sydney Area
I don’t help people get jobs. I help them become impossible to ignore. After 10+ years as a tech recruiter & 100+ positive testimonals, I noticed something strange:
The roles weren’t going to the most qualified candidates.
They were going to the ones who knew how to stand out.
That’s why I started Careersy Coaching.
Since then, I've helped 300+ tech professionals land roles paying $140k–$300k+ across Australia and New Zealand.
And here’s the truth:
Most…I don’t help people get jobs. I help them become impossible to ignore. After 10+ years as a tech recruiter & 100+ positive testimonals, I noticed something strange:
The roles weren’t going to the most qualified candidates.
They were going to the ones who knew how to stand out.
That’s why I started Careersy Coaching.
Since then, I've helped 300+ tech professionals land roles paying $140k–$300k+ across Australia and New Zealand.
And here’s the truth:
Most of them weren’t doing anything “wrong.”
▶︎ They just weren’t getting seen.
▶︎ Their LinkedIn was silent.
▶︎ Their resume read like a job description.
▶︎ And they didn’t know how to sell their story.
So we changed all that.
→ Career clarity to target the right roles
→ Personal branding that positions them as experts
→ Resumes and LinkedIn profiles that attract interviews
→ Interview coaching that builds real confidence
→ Negotiation strategies that secure the top end of the band.
This isn’t about playing the job search game harder.
It’s about playing it smarter, with a brand, a strategy, and real momentum.
If you’re ready to stop being overlooked…
Book an appointment via the link below 👇 or my profile . -
Atlassian
4 years 3 months
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Principal Technical Recruiter & TA AI Enablement
Atlassian
- Present 1 month
Greater Sydney Area
As a Principal (P50) IC in Talent Acquisition, I balance high-level technical recruiting delivery with strategic global leadership. Alongside executing critical engineering hires, I serve as a core member of the TA AI Enablement pod. I am currently co-architecting Atlassian’s enterprise TA Agent & Use Case Library. A centralized database driving the safe, scalable adoption of Rovo AI tools across our worldwide recruiting org. Ultimately, as an internal AI Ambassador, I am helping drive the…
As a Principal (P50) IC in Talent Acquisition, I balance high-level technical recruiting delivery with strategic global leadership. Alongside executing critical engineering hires, I serve as a core member of the TA AI Enablement pod. I am currently co-architecting Atlassian’s enterprise TA Agent & Use Case Library. A centralized database driving the safe, scalable adoption of Rovo AI tools across our worldwide recruiting org. Ultimately, as an internal AI Ambassador, I am helping drive the enterprise-wide change management needed to fundamentally transform how Atlassian recruits, scales, and innovates using AI.
🚀 Global AI Enablement & UI Architecture
System Design & Schema: Designing the canonical catalog schema to categorize AI tools by Workflow Stage, Risk Level, and Task Type.
Experimental UI: Leveraging Rovo Dev to build "vibe-coded," interactive web interfaces, solving discoverability challenges and allowing recruiters to easily access vetted "gold-star" prompts.
MVP Piloting: Driving the initial population of the library with sanitized use cases and leading early-cohort testing to validate search functionality prior to global launch.
📈 Principal TA Leadership & Delivery
Strategic Hiring Delivery (70%): Partnering with engineering leadership to execute complex hiring strategies, ensuring our team's daily efforts directly ladder up to Atlassian's company OKRs.
Change Management: Acting as a steady hand during organizational transitions. I prepare teams for change, document risks, and maintain transparent communication to build resilience and trust.
Mentorship & Team Connectedness: Elevating others by delegating meaningful work and trusting ICs with ownership. I actively mentor peers, coach through complex challenges, and build cross-functional bridges.
Continuous Improvement: Championing a culture of learning by facilitating regular retrospectives and turning feedback into scalable practices across the TA organization. -
Principal Technical Recruiter | 2IC to TA Manager
Atlassian
- 1 year 2 months
Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia (Remote)
Promoted to Principal Recruiter (P50) following a “Greatly Exceeded” rating for FY24/25. As 2IC to the TA Manager, I blend technical hiring expertise with strategic leadership to drive global talent initiatives. I partner with senior leaders to shape Atlassian’s long-term hiring strategy, attracting and retaining the world-class engineering talent that fuels our innovation.
> Strategic Talent & AI Orchestration
The modern talent landscape requires a shift from "hiring for today" to…Promoted to Principal Recruiter (P50) following a “Greatly Exceeded” rating for FY24/25. As 2IC to the TA Manager, I blend technical hiring expertise with strategic leadership to drive global talent initiatives. I partner with senior leaders to shape Atlassian’s long-term hiring strategy, attracting and retaining the world-class engineering talent that fuels our innovation.
> Strategic Talent & AI Orchestration
The modern talent landscape requires a shift from "hiring for today" to building teams that can "think through what’s next. I go beyond traditional recruitment to act as a Strategic Talent Advisor. I use Systems Thinking to see the 'big picture' ensuring our hiring strategy doesn't just fill gaps for today, but builds a workforce capable of evolving alongside AI and new technologies. I'm particularly focused on:
- Advising on how to integrate AI agents into recruitment teams, ensuring smooth "handoffs" between automated tasks and human expertise.
- Using talent metrics data to spot early trends, allowing us to pivot our strategy before hiring bottlenecks impact the business.
- Partnering with the C-suite to lead workforce transformation.
> Specialised Technical Leadership Hiring
I lead search strategies for senior and principal engineering leaders across Australia, New Zealand, and India, including:
- Principal & Senior Principal Software Engineers
- Principal SREs & Infrastructure Leaders
- Senior/Principal Machine Learning & AI Engineers
- Senior Data Scientists
> Leadership & Global Impact
In addition to high-impact hiring, I support the performance of a 10-person recruiting team. As 2IC, I provide coaching, mentorship, and 1:1 leadership to ensure team alignment and delivery. My global strategic work includes:
- Leading global training programs to uplift recruiter and sourcer skill sets.
- Enhancing systems to improve candidate experience and hiring outcomes.
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Senior Technical Recruiter / Sourcer - Software & Data Engineering / Data Science / AI / MLE
Atlassian
- 1 year 8 months
Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia
Recognised with a “greatly exceeding” rating in FY23/24 and promoted to Senior Recruiter for consistently delivering exceptional outcomes. I oversee hiring for Principal (P60) and Senior Principal (P70) Software Engineering roles across ANZ and India, partnering with senior engineering and executive leaders to shape Atlassian’s technical talent strategy.
FY 24 Key Contributions:
- Spearheaded Market Intelligence Self-Service Template: Improved access to actionable insights…Recognised with a “greatly exceeding” rating in FY23/24 and promoted to Senior Recruiter for consistently delivering exceptional outcomes. I oversee hiring for Principal (P60) and Senior Principal (P70) Software Engineering roles across ANZ and India, partnering with senior engineering and executive leaders to shape Atlassian’s technical talent strategy.
FY 24 Key Contributions:
- Spearheaded Market Intelligence Self-Service Template: Improved access to actionable insights, enhancing Global TA’s data-driven sourcing and hiring decisions. Widely adopted for stakeholder meetings, driving strategic impact.
- Exceeded hiring targets: Achieved 35 hires, including 16 P60s and 2 P70s, surpassing a target of 19, significantly contributing to team growth and organizational success.
- Strategic recruitment leadership: Co-led 12 P60 and 1 P70 sessions, applying market intelligence to innovate recruitment strategies. Developed a DEI sourcing approach, resulting in URG candidate interviews and broader adoption across teams.
- Improved operational efficiency: Led the integration of new iCIMS statuses, improving system performance and streamlining talent acquisition processes.
- CRM change project leadership: Co-led global CRM enhancements, resolving key blockers and simplifying the user interface, which improved adoption and operational excellence.
- Diversity & inclusion insights: Conducted URG hiring data analysis, uncovering critical drop-off points, leading to leadership-backed initiatives that boosted URG candidate success rates.
- Change champion and advocate: Spearheaded the gap analysis of a tool that improved clarity and consistency in interview feedback, accelerating the hiring process and enhancing evaluation quality.
- Launched Global P60 Sourcing Hub: Centralized and standardized sourcing strategies for all P60 (Principal Engineer) roles globally, increasing efficiency, consistency, and pipeline quality across teams. -
Tech Recruiter/Sourcer - Software Engineering | Australia & New Zealand
Atlassian
- 1 year 7 months
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
As a Recruiter/Sourcer, I consistently exceed hiring goals and focus on building a diverse, representative engineering team. My work on the APAC DEI Sourcing Hub uplifted our global sourcing capabilities, leading to its replication in the US. I also led the standardization and scale-up of Principal Engineer (P60) sourcing in APAC, which we replicated across other regions as P60 volume increased.
Throughout FY23, I ran multiple learning sessions on sourcing techniques, GitHub sourcing…As a Recruiter/Sourcer, I consistently exceed hiring goals and focus on building a diverse, representative engineering team. My work on the APAC DEI Sourcing Hub uplifted our global sourcing capabilities, leading to its replication in the US. I also led the standardization and scale-up of Principal Engineer (P60) sourcing in APAC, which we replicated across other regions as P60 volume increased.
Throughout FY23, I ran multiple learning sessions on sourcing techniques, GitHub sourcing, better InMails, Confluence pages, emoji search, and X-ray search. I also led a training session on Goodtime during a challenging transition to a new system. Staying current with AI trends in recruiting, I’ve represented Atlassian as a guest speaker.
Greatly exceeds performance rating (5/5) for FY23
Here's a summary of FY23:
Q1: Hire goal was 6, and I made 12 hires (200% target achievement, with 3 underrepresented minorities).
Q2: Hire goal was 8, and I made 13 hires (165% target achievement, with 1 underrepresented minority).
Q3: A slower hiring phase (no targets )
Q4: Made 8 hires (5 P60, achieving 71% of our entire P60 pod goal for the quarter). Currently at 114% of our target, with several more hires pending.
I’ve delivered twelve projects with significant impacts on our teams and continuously strive to strengthen our team’s connectedness and uplift our sourcing and DEII initiatives.
As a Subject Matter Expert for P60 sourcing, I led the creation of our centralized P60 Sourcing Hub, ensuring a smooth handover during my parental leave. I also helped organize and execute an exclusive P60 roundtable event, collaborating with talent branding and sourcing internal representatives.
To address collaboration among Sourcers, I co-created a monthly Sourcing Roundtable event and Confluence page to centralize session recordings. I also launched the "What's Your Background" series, fostering a better understanding of our people and breaking down silos within Atlassian.
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Senior Technical Recruiter - Engineering
Airwallex
- 7 months
Greater Sydney Area
Leading the hiring for all things Engineering related at Airwallex. This includes active sourcing, growing the talent pool, talent marketing, guiding hiring managers to make well-informed decisions and closing candidates.
Airwallex is a highly fast-paced environment with lots of freedom to explore and execute ideas.
Key roles I recruit for: Software Engineers (back end and front end); Site Reliability Engineers, DevOps Engineers, Developer Experience Engineers and Engineering…Leading the hiring for all things Engineering related at Airwallex. This includes active sourcing, growing the talent pool, talent marketing, guiding hiring managers to make well-informed decisions and closing candidates.
Airwallex is a highly fast-paced environment with lots of freedom to explore and execute ideas.
Key roles I recruit for: Software Engineers (back end and front end); Site Reliability Engineers, DevOps Engineers, Developer Experience Engineers and Engineering Leads/Managers.
Key Contributions :
~ Proactively sourced and hired 3 Software Engineers and 2 SRE/DevOps engineers.
~ Created an Engineering Interview Process Handbook from scratch. This is now being used globally and in different role families.
~ Created a Candidate Handbook with the support of our marketing team to help educate candidates about Airwallex, benefits and interview process. This document has 10 pages.
~Revamped parts of the recruitment Confluence page and improved the onboarding experience for new starters. We had little to no structure around the whole recruitment process, so I proactively created different consolidated sources of information in one place and published them for others to use.
~ I put a high emphasis on candidate experience and provide my hiring managers with important information about the candidate (market) and what they need to focus on during each interview to make a positive impact on the candidate. Equally, I make sure to provide quality feedback and updates to the candidates.
~Implemented monthly recruitment team lunches to have quality time with my team in Sydney. We saw in our data that we lost about 30 % of software engineers due to the time it takes to complete the take-home challenge. Hence why we implemented the live coding interview as a substitute.
~ I message on average 60 - 80 engineers per week on LinkedIn Recruiter using my hiring managers or personal LinkedIn profile. My response rate is about 27% to 34 %. -
Senior Talent Partner / Tech Recruiter (Engineering)
Mantel Group
- 2 years
Sydney, Australia
#1 Best places to work in Australia ❤️
Lead the hiring for Kasna - GCP premier partner and CMD Solutions - AWS premier partner.
Tech stack: AWS, GCP, Java, Python, Node.Js, Go, Airflow, Terraform, CICD, DevOps, Agile, Kubernetes, EKS, GKE etc.
Key Contributions
• Actively sourced and hired 82 engineers since joining Mantel Group ( ~ 4 hires per month on
average)
• Achieved 115% of my headcount target for FY19/20 and 120% for FY 20/21.
• Delivered pre-screening…#1 Best places to work in Australia ❤️
Lead the hiring for Kasna - GCP premier partner and CMD Solutions - AWS premier partner.
Tech stack: AWS, GCP, Java, Python, Node.Js, Go, Airflow, Terraform, CICD, DevOps, Agile, Kubernetes, EKS, GKE etc.
Key Contributions
• Actively sourced and hired 82 engineers since joining Mantel Group ( ~ 4 hires per month on
average)
• Achieved 115% of my headcount target for FY19/20 and 120% for FY 20/21.
• Delivered pre-screening resulting with 2 out of 5 candidates progressing to the next interview stage
• Achieved about 20 % gender diversity hires for 2020/21 in a male dominated industry.
• Created the fastest interviewing processes in the company from phone screen to offer in just
under 2 weeks.
• Organised 10 social events for our office : the breakfast club, regular Friday night drinks, a
magician show and quiz night during Covid, 2019 Christmas party (as part of the team)
• Organised and ran two sourcing events in our Sydney office. Firstly, “Bring a Friend” where
engineers would invite friends to meet and greet our team. We had over 50 attendees which led to
2 quality hires. Secondly, GCP, Anthos and Kubernetes meet up with over 30 attendees which led
to 1 quality hire and numerous new connections.
Duties
• Reporting directly to the CEO and CTO and managed the end-to-end
recruitment lifecycle from vacancy management, sourcing, screening and selection to offer
management and negotiation with an average between 15 to 20 open roles.
• Supporting hiring managers in defining their needs and specifying requirements.
• Coaching, challenging and advising hiring managers using recruitment and market data to inform
and influence local and key hiring decisions.
• Managing the offer management process and benchmarking offers against internal and market
salaries.
• Attending careers and trade events (eg: Google Summit and Kubernetes forum)
• Organiser of ‘bring a friend’ and meetups in our office in Sydney as well as digital events -
Principal Recruiter - Data Science, Analytics & (Big) Data Engineering
TOM People
- 1 year 5 months
Greater Sydney Area
T+O+M Executive is Australia’s leading specialist financial services recruitment firm. Based in Sydney, we connect leading Australian and global blue-chip companies with outstanding talent.
Duties
• I specialised in end to end tech recruitment of Data Science, Data Analytics and Data Engineering specialist in Sydney.
• Oversaw and initiated the creation of digital ads, designs, and digital marketing campaigns through social media (LinkedIn, Instagram etc.) to attract talent and…T+O+M Executive is Australia’s leading specialist financial services recruitment firm. Based in Sydney, we connect leading Australian and global blue-chip companies with outstanding talent.
Duties
• I specialised in end to end tech recruitment of Data Science, Data Analytics and Data Engineering specialist in Sydney.
• Oversaw and initiated the creation of digital ads, designs, and digital marketing campaigns through social media (LinkedIn, Instagram etc.) to attract talent and grow my personal brand.
• Relationship based recruitment processes: Met weekly up to 4 executive managers and 5 candidates face to face.
• Partnered, influenced and managed cross-functional stakeholders (i.e. hiring managers, Head of’s, HR etc.) throughout the recruitment process.
• Never gave up on hard-to-fill roles. I continuously communicated with the hiring manager and provided regular updates on the current talent pools and the market.
• Advised the hiring manager around flexibility and offerd alternative solutions to fill the role.
• Attend tech meetups on regular basis (i.e. Data Science, Alteryx etc.)
• Organised Data for Breakfast meet up in Sydney for senior executives and candidates in the data engineering community.
• Recruited for various well-known Australian companies: Prospa, Woolworths Group, Woolies X, Macquarie, Suncorp, FirstStateSuper, Domain etc.
Key Contributions
• Created a personal brand that clients trusted through commitment, expectation management, keeping promises and making it fun for everyone involved.
• Created 2 data meet ups for candidates & clients (30+ attendees from various brands i.e. Westpac, AMP, Macquarie, CBA, Tyro, QBE etc.).
• Created #EliRecruits hashtag on LinkedIn for wider reach, stronger employer /personal branding and better engagement with my network. I post twice a day ranging from articles to active roles.
• 15 permanent and 2 contract placements in less than 12 months.
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Travelling Overseas
Exploring
- 4 months
Traveled for 4 months across Southeast Asia. I had the joy of exploring Thailand, Vietnam, Singapore, Indonesia, Hongkong and Japan. It was an amazing and life-changing experience.
I relocated to Australia at the end of this trip to be with my Australian partner (now fiancé). -
Recruiting Team Lead
Vibe Group ®
- 1 year 10 months
Amsterdam, The Netherlands & Düsseldorf, Germany
Leading BI, Analytics and Data recruitment agency in the Netherlands.
Duties
• Reported directly to the founder of Vibe Group
• Was a specialised tech recruiter in Data Science, Data Analytics and Data Engineering in the
Netherlands and in Germany.
• I was integral in the setting up the first German office for permanent staffing from scratch.
• Sourced, hired, trained and mentored 3 team members.
• Organised meet ups on relevant data topics to attract and network among…Leading BI, Analytics and Data recruitment agency in the Netherlands.
Duties
• Reported directly to the founder of Vibe Group
• Was a specialised tech recruiter in Data Science, Data Analytics and Data Engineering in the
Netherlands and in Germany.
• I was integral in the setting up the first German office for permanent staffing from scratch.
• Sourced, hired, trained and mentored 3 team members.
• Organised meet ups on relevant data topics to attract and network among niche skillsets.
• Built a trusted advisory position and relationships with the numerous hiring managers within a new
market.
Key Contributions
• Spearheaded the launch of Vibe Group into the German market.
• Awarded the top biller award for exceptional performance in 2017.
• Set up and recruited a successful team of 3 consultants from scratch, who are still with the business.
• Successfully delivered end to end solutions from sourcing to on boarding and training (weekly basis, incl. documents) for new team members.
• Created 5 data meet ups for candidates & clients.
• 16 placements within 12 months in a new market without a brand .
• Tools used: Bullhorn (CRM), ATS, LinkedIN, LinkedIN Recruiter.
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Recruitment Specialist / Tech Recruiter
RED - The Global SAP Solutions Provider
- 2 years 1 month
Cologne Area, Germany
RED is the world’s leading specialist SAP resourcing company. With 15 years of experience, 9 global offices, 200+ employees and a network of over 500,000 SAP professionals, you can trust RED will deliver.
Duties
• Was a specialised tech recruiter in SAP (finance, sales, marketing, distribution, IT and operations), Engineering and ERP in Germany.
• Identification and qualification of client requirement, key account development and regular client meetings.
• Worked across various…RED is the world’s leading specialist SAP resourcing company. With 15 years of experience, 9 global offices, 200+ employees and a network of over 500,000 SAP professionals, you can trust RED will deliver.
Duties
• Was a specialised tech recruiter in SAP (finance, sales, marketing, distribution, IT and operations), Engineering and ERP in Germany.
• Identification and qualification of client requirement, key account development and regular client meetings.
• Worked across various domains and industries.
• Met with 4 hiring managers and 5 candidates on a weekly basis.
• Liaised with existing and new clients.
• Key stakeholders were HR- Managers, Senior Managers and Head of IT/Data
• Responsible for the end to end recruitment lifecycle.
Key Contributions
• Awarded the Rookie and Top Biller award for outstanding performance.
• Made 11 permanent placements in my first year of recruitment.
• Tools used: Bullhorn (CRM), LinkedIn and LinkedIn Recruiter, Indeed.
Website: www.redsapsolutions.com
Education
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Hogeschool INHOLLAND
Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) International Business, Management & Human Resources Distinction
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Yeditepe University
Erasmus Exchange Human Resources Management/Personnel Administration, General High Distinction
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Activities and Societies: Entrepreneur Club
Skills
- Global Talent Acquisition
- AI Subagents
- Tech Career Skills
- Tech Career Coach
- Tech Community
- Community Organizing
- Community Building
- Community
- Tech
- tech
- community
- Community Development
- Generative AI for Learning and Development
- AI for Career Development
- Large Language Models (LLM)
- AI Literacy
- Artificial Intelligence (AI)
- LinkedIn Recruiter
- Career coaching
- Resume Writing
- Interview Skills Training
- Leadership Development
- Resume Review
- Linkedin review
- Software Engineering
- Leadership recruitment
- Talent partner
- Diversity, Equality, and Inclusion (DEI)
- Career Counseling
- Interviewing
- Resumes
- Technical Recruitment
- Career Development
- Engineering
- Software Development
- Sourcing
- Career Opportunities
- Technical Recruiting
- Process Improvement
- Hiring
- Interviewing
- Career Development Coaching
- Project Management
- Sales
- Recruiting
- CRM
- Account Management
- Marketing Strategy
- Leadership
- Consulting
- Marketing Communications
- Communication
- Business Development
- Social Media
- Direct Sales
- Marketing
- Team Leadership
- SAP HR
- New Business Development
- Management
- Promotions
- Business-Intelligence
- Data Warehousing
- Personalbeschaffung
- Projektmanagement
- Vertrieb
- Account-Management
- Unternehmensführung
- Teamführung
- Business Intelligence
- Coaching
Honors & Awards
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Top Biller 2017
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- 16 placements within 12 months in newly created market as a lead consultant with an overall value of € 360 k
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Top Biller 2015
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- 11 placements with a total value of € 250k within and attended to 2 lunch clubs (min. €35k to qualify)
- Highest valued deal within the history of the organisation € 45k
Languages
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English
Full professional proficiency
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German
Native or bilingual proficiency
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Dutch
Professional working proficiency
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Turkish
Professional working proficiency
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Ben Duncombe
Talent Hub • 31K followers
Coming up this week on Talent Hub Talk, I am joined by James Keaney and the episode will be available from tomorrow. Interested in hearing what has been happening in the ANZ Salesforce market? Catch up on our last episode by following the link in the comment section 👇 Talent Hub Global #Salesforce #TalentHub #Podcast
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Theresa Marie Haddock
Oracle • 1K followers
AI isn’t just changing HR processes, it’s redefining the role of HR leaders and how they shape the future of work. In a conversation with LinkedIn News Australia, Oracle's Yvette Cameron shares how AI can: ✅ Give leaders a real-time view of workforce skills today and the ones they’ll need tomorrow ✅ Empower more agile, connected, and human-centered workplaces ✅ Turn vision into action with a think big, start small, move fast approach For CHROs, it’s a reminder that the human element of HR is more important than ever and AI is becoming a powerful ally in making better, faster, more informed decisions. 🎥 Watch the interview here: https://lnkd.in/g7TMd_Ab
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Cameron Robinson
Solve by Talent • 4K followers
Software development is defying a national trend. Job ad numbers are declining all over the place. Overall, they've declined in seven out of the past eight months across Australia and New Zealand. But demand for software developers rose last month and is higher in November 2025 than it was in November 2024. We've seen this. Client demand for our services is high. Our TA Partners are busy. SaaS companies are getting investment. And clients like Canva are going hard expanding their GenAI capabilities, among other product developments. Looking forward to a big and busy 2026 in the tech hiring space...
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Aimee Thompson
Launch Group • 16K followers
What are Melbourne’s SME tech teams doing differently to scale smarter?🔥 I’ve been working with growing tech companies, from Fintech and Healthtech to SaaS, Energy, and beyond and the patterns are clear: ✅ Lean teams using scalable tech stacks ✅ Smart hiring strategies that balance cost and capability ✅ A real push toward inclusive, diverse engineering cultures To help founders, CTOs, and Heads of Engineering benchmark their teams, I’ve created a Curated Talent Insights Report, packed with anonymised data on tech stacks, team structures, and gender diversity goals across Melbourne’s SME tech scene. If you're building a dev team and want to see what your peers are doing, drop me a message. I’ll send the report and shout you a coffee ☕ #melbournetechnology #smegrowth #scalingteams #talentinsights #startups #engineeringleadership #inclusivehiring
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Andy Riabokin
Recruitment Process… • 11K followers
🤹♀️ Supporting multiple clients and pipelines? Honeit Workspaces were made for RPOs, embedded teams, and fractional recruiters who need to scale without sacrificing quality. ⚡ Branded submissions ⚡ Structured interview insights ⚡ One-click client toggling ⚡ Metrics that actually matter One platform. Every conversation. Built for recruiters --> not meetings. #RPO #RecruiterTech #TalentDelivery #InterviewIntelligence #Honeit
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Dan O'Donnell
Bluefin Resources • 27K followers
Entry-level hiring across APAC is recovering, but not evenly. LinkedIn’s latest data shows: 👉🏻Australia, India and Singapore are above pre-COVID levels for entry-level roles (+3pp, +7pp, +4pp). 👉🏻Degree-holders are falling behind. In Australia, graduate hiring is 4pp below average. In India it is 39pp lower. In Singapore it is 2pp higher, but still trails the overall cohort. In Australia, this reflects: 👉🏻Strong vocational and apprenticeship pathways already embedded in the labour market. 👉🏻Growth in sectors like retail, logistics and hospitality that rely less on degrees. 👉🏻A muted recovery in degree-dependent sectors such as finance and professional services. 🤔 For business leaders, the question is simple. Are degree requirements helping or hindering access to early career talent? Skills-first approaches are no longer optional, they are shaping the supply of tomorrow’s workforce. How are you balancing formal qualifications with skills in your hiring strategy?
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Brian Bernard
Christian Ministry • 2K followers
The Absolute IT Job Market & Salary Report 2026 is here. Packed with insights from across New Zealand’s tech sector, this report explores key hiring trends, salary benchmarks, and what employers and candidates can expect in the year ahead. Whether you’re planning your next career move or shaping your hiring strategy, this report provides the data and insights to help you stay ahead in a rapidly evolving IT market. Reach out for a digital or physical copy today! #ITJobs #TechCareers #SalaryGuide #NZTech #HiringTrends #AbsoluteIT
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Neha Batth
DFP Recruitment • 1K followers
Brisbane is becoming one of the most competitive hiring markets in Australia. Between infrastructure builds, digital transformation projects, and a surge in public sector demand, the talent market here is shifting fast, especially in the lead-up to 2032. What’s changing most? 1. More roles needing hybrid skill sets (tech + people, not just one or the other). 2. Higher expectations from candidates around stability, flexibility, and meaningful work. 3. Hiring managers moving toward skills-first, not job-title-first. Brisbane used to be a “steady” market. Now it’s a strategic one. And the organisations that adapt early will win the best people. Curious to hear from my Brisbane network: What’s the biggest talent challenge you’re seeing right now? #Brisbane #Recruitment #QueenslandJobs #Hiring #FutureOfWork #Leadership #QLD
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Saeed Kasmani, Ph.D.
IBM • 8K followers
Measure How Much Your Team Feels Supported 🛡️ 📊 * In the “2025 Workforce Trends Report: Workplace Wellbeing Index,” over 25% of employees said they are currently experiencing burnout. * Only 1 in 4 employees strongly agree that their organization cares about their well-being. There’s been a drop in this perception over the past year. 💡 Wellness isn’t just a benefit—it’s a barometer of how people feel at work. When employees don’t believe their workplace cares, performance, trust, and loyalty suffer. Leaders who actively show care and measure wellness aren’t just being kind—they’re safeguarding productivity, retention, and team morale. ❓ What’s one action you can take today to show your team you truly care—and start measuring that care? * Could you run a quick anonymous pulse survey asking: “Do you feel supported in your well-being?” * Maybe share a story of an organizational policy that’s helped someone, to show real care? * Or commit to one small change based on past feedback, then tell the team you did it to close the feedback loop? 📚 🔗 https://lnkd.in/gGbF-67w 🔗 https://lnkd.in/gYD_4cAr 🔗 https://lnkd.in/gm8MqT6g #EmployeeWellbeing #LeadershipSupport #TeamCare #BurnoutPrevention
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Coburg Banks
21K followers
Is your ‘flexible’ hiring process causing more harm than good? 🤔 While flexibility sounds great, a lack of structure can lead to missed opportunities, frustrated teams, and confused candidates—especially in engineering recruitment, where precision is key. 🚧 In our latest blog, we explore the hidden costs of an unstructured hiring process and share how a clear, structured approach can transform your recruitment success. Don’t let chaos hold you back—find out how to build a process that delivers results! ✅ #Recruitment #EngineeringJobs #HiringProcess
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Snigdha Ojha (She/Her/Hers)
Twilio • 13K followers
The AI landscape in Australia is heating up with conversational AI. This isn't your average chatbot. By using advanced language models, it understands customer needs and responds naturally, handling complex interactions and building genuine connections. Think seamless ticket rescheduling or efficient product returns – all powered by AI. Companies like ING and Cedar are already demonstrating the power of ethical conversational AI, enhancing customer experience and optimisng resources. The key? Decent data foundations. Accurate and consolidated data fuels AI models that can truly understand and respond effectively. Building trust also relies on trusted infrastructure. Understanding where your data goes is paramount. Conversational AI offers a fantastic opportunity for marketers to showcase the "good" in AI – faster responses, smarter connections, and ultimately, stronger customer trust.
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The Agency Blueprint
10K followers
What if you could run a lean, highly profitable recruitment agency without needing a large team or traditional overhead? The AI Talent Partner Model is changing the game and it’s designed for those who want to work smarter, scale faster, and generate consistent income. Here’s how it works 👇 💰 Install Fee: Charge $5k–$10k per client to set up their AI-powered recruitment system (Clay.ai + outreach automation). 📅 Monthly Retainers: Bring in $2k–$4k per client each month for ongoing candidate sourcing, AI optimization, and support. 🎯 Performance-Based Fees: Earn $5k per successful hire while offering better pricing than traditional recruiters. Why this model works: ✅ Low overhead ✅ Predictable recurring income ✅ Scalable to $500k–$1M+ with just 10–20 clients This isn’t just theory. This is the new blueprint for agency growth. Remote Assistants www.theagencyblueprint.com
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