Episode #10: International careers don’t just happen overnight, they take time and planning, or do they?

02/18/21 • 41 min

Join Roisin Duffy and Special guest Esther Kuiters on today's episode of the Living Your Career Show.

Do you dream of having an international career? If you do... today's show will provide you practical steps, advice and Esther's personal experience that will help you make that dream a reality.

9:37 How to Maximize Tech for Advancing Your Career
11:02 Can you see what industries are poised for growth?
14:12 Are You still focusing on networking with Senior People to Advance
your Career? You'll have better success if you do this instead
26:16 How Can someone Land an International Position?
33:45 Advice to Career Focused Youth

Esther Kuiters is a board advisor, start-up investor, coach, author, and executive HR leader. Her passion is strategic and technological innovation, linked to business improvement and transformation. Her laser sharp focus zoomed in on people and productive cultures, aligned to commercial business priorities. As Director of Perfect People Workforce Solutions, now located in Brisbane, Esther often burns the midnight oil in servicing companies at home and abroad.

An executive of standing, and adventurer, Esther, with her family in tow, has held senior appointments in Australia, United Kingdom, Europe, United States, China, and the Middle East. A regular keynote speaker and conference panelist, she has co-authored two books on training and safety. To travel, adventure and opportunity, her answer is always yes, yet her sense of self-identity, core values, and ethical stance remain steadfast when contemplating each step in her distinguished career.

Join Roisin Duffy and Special guest Esther Kuiters on today's episode of the Living Your Career Show.

Do you dream of having an international career? If you do... today's show will provide you practical steps, advice and Esther's personal experience that will help you make that dream a reality.

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Episode #9: How to Build and Leverage Relationships on Purpose, to Benefit Your Career with Lindsay Adams

Today on Living Your Career we have a very special guest: Lindsay Adams. Lindsay brings a wealth of knowledge about building business relationships. Consider this: you don’t have to be a great socialite to be well networked, but you do need to know how to communicate to build and leverage relationships on purpose.
#BuildingBusinessRelationships #Networking #Leveragerelationships #LivingYourCareer #RoisinDuffy #LindsayAdams
Here are some of the gold nuggets that Lindsay provides in this episode:
[07:45] 1. Relationship building skills can be learnt and do not need to be an innate part of your DNA.
[10:48] 2. Engage quickly and purposefully to have a greater chance of getting what you need or want from a relationship.
[17:20] 3. Key 4 Model - The value is not in having lots of connections but how they are activated and managed.
[19:40] 4. No great relationship was ever created by one person proving how much they knew.
[34:45] 5. Employ the same principles and practices for cultivating relationships in the cloud as you do when meeting people in person.
Otherwise known as "The Relationships Guy", Lindsay can show you how to target and get a conversation going with perfect strangers, network with job influencers and leverage ‘Relationships on Purpose’ to advance your career.
Lindsay has built 3 successful businesses since leaving his 20-year public service career. He consults and delivers training seminars and workshops to leading organisations, ranging from Suncorp and Rio Tinto to Mirvac and Uniting Care Health. His specialty driving business success through strong, empowering and meaningful relationships.

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Episode #11: All Roads to Effective Career Management Lead to Knowing Your ‘Personal Why’

Join your host Roisin Duffy and special guest Rael Bricker on this episode of Living Your Career and discover the tips to effective career management including the following:

• Motivation: ‘personal why’ and its relationship with effective career management.
• Aspiration: Taking risks, not over-analysing, trusting gut, diving into careers and adjusting course, as necessary.
• Navigation: Confidence and purpose are key to conquering unexpected challenges on the journey.
• Self-belief to stand out from the crowd, while staying away from people who belittle ambition.
• Application: Distinguishing your practice through quality, watching for the points of no gain or effort.
• Enrichment: People get promoted to the point of no return, so keep challenged and growing.
10:15 Best Career Advice You Can Use Now
14:45 Walking the Fine Line Between Confidence and Arrogance
22:42 What You Need to Know about Building Company Culture for Millennials
27:23 What 3 things stand out on an application?
33:40 What You Need to Know About the Profiling Tools Used by Your Prospective Employers
Rael Bricker is a Culture Futurist and Business Excellence International Speaker. He is the first Inspirationalist in Australia with Integrus Global and a mentor on Mentored with Mark Bouris and Mastermind.space. He is the co-host of The Business Excellence Podcast and author of Dive in: Lessons learnt since Business School.
Self-made entrepreneur and business excellence coach, Rael’s 30-year career spans two continents, employment, start-ups and listed companies in underground mining, international education, venture capital and financial services. His global insight into corporate cultures and the future of work is informed by upwards of 80 interviews with companies in 25 countries.
Rael believes that careers, like business, do not have to be complicated. His view, “Sometimes you need to make decisions where everything points to the right way to go. You need to dive in and possibly adjust the course while you are moving.”
Blue Sky Careers is Queensland's premium recruitment provider. With many years operating in the Queensland market, Roisin Duffy and her team are experts in the field.
You can pick up a copy of Rael Bricker's book here:
https://www.amazon.com.au/Dive-Lessons-learnt-Business-School/dp/0648311104/ref=cm_sw_em_r_dp_pz_w_U_fednBbBYHJ9MJ_im