Meahan Callaghan

#ATC2021DIGITAL Upside-down Talent  Afterpay is an unconventional business story (imagine acquiring 17,000 new customers every day for a whole year) so it makes sense that it has an unconventional talent story. Talent is the lifeforce of Afterpay yet we don’t seek the “best” talent in the market, the first 90 days doesn’t start on Day…

James O’Reilly

#ATC2021DIGITAL Taking the blinkers off: How Xero’s Talent Experience function is enabling their hyper growth From Wellington-born accounting software start up to an internationally-recognised small business platform, the rise of Xero has been a local feel-good story. Their Talent Experience (TX) team has played a pivotal role in enabling this growth and laying the foundations…

Jim D’Amico

#ATC2021DIGITAL Are you a TA Storyteller or Story-yeller? Jim’s talent team, like many others knew how to search, asses and hire but it wasn’t until they adopted a creative and strategic communications approach that they dramatically improved their hiring velocity. It’s easy to believe we have the perfect job for someone but when you make…

Lauren Maher

Lauren is a Talent Acquisition Lead for Australian Unity – Australia’s first member-owned and wellbeing company. With a background in Psychology and Commerce, she has coordinated the implementation of effective Talent functions for various international, national and ASX listed organisations. Lauren is passionate about delivering robust Talent strategies and driving positive candidate experiences.

Christine Ross

#ATC2020DIGITAL About Christine Christine Ross is a proud Arrernte-Eastern Arrernte-Kaytetye woman born in Alice Springs, raised in Darwin, moved to Perth 18 years ago and is now the Managing Director of her own consultancy, Christine Ross Consultancy. She works with a variety of Corporate Companies, Govt and Non-Govt, NFP and Aboriginal Organisations with advice to…

Sarah Hall

#ATC2020DIGITAL DAY 2 3pm Humanising Diversity – The Stories Behind the Targets Diversity has certainly become a buzz word in the Talent Acquisition world, with the benefits of a diverse workforce widely recognised by businesses and increasing pressure on TA teams to deliver on ambitious targets. While the use of data to track progress and…

Sarah White

#ATC2020DIGITAL Lion’s “Future Talent” Experiment When critical roles become vacant the pressure is on to attract and hire quickly but going to market takes time. What if there was engaged Talent who had already met with Managers, ready to go? Sarah will share how she worked with People & Culture to leverage internal succession planning…

Josh Farr

Josh Farr graduated with 1st Class Honors in Civil Engineering, as the President of the Civil & Environmental Engineering Society & took a graduate role at one of the most prestigious engineering companies in Australia. The only problem was, he was totally unfulfilled. He took a leap of faith & spent the follow 2-years traveling…

Kunal Gokuldas

I’m the Recruitment Team Lead at Red Energy and currently looking after recruiting within our Contact centre space. I manage an extremely talented bunch of recruiters who work hard everyday to find the best talent in Melbourne for Red. We work at an amazing company – Red Energy, where we look for people who want…