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ThinkBig Careers
Follow Your Purpose & Passion
An energetic, positive and inspirational career and leadership coach, with extensive HR experience, helping you connect to your dream job or accelerate your impact in your current role.
Your Coach - Geoff Martin
I have changed my career several times from Banker, to HR Leader, to Facilitator and Career Coach, across Finance, Insurance, Recruitment, Outplacement and Return To Work Services. As a result, I know first hand how careers can be varied and fulfilling, and have coached many people to find their passion and potential at work. As per the Australian average, I too have been retrenched twice, and each time it has been the trigger for my career to flourish.
How I can help you
Life has been an amazing career journey. In 1990, fluent in Japanese and armed with a Bachelor of Arts in Asian Studies, with a sub major in general Economics History, I started my life as a banker and progressed to a Corporate Relationship Manager servicing multinationals. From lending, I moved into leadership and operational roles before being drawn into HR in 2001 in the same organisation. After 18 years at Australia's oldest bank, with three amazing career experiences, a redundancy was actually good for me, to experience other industries and operations. I entered a senior HR role at a major Australian Global Insurer before discovering the joy of Career Coaching and Facilitation with one of the World's largest Career Transition Coaching organisation, and worked with many clients and companies, including onsite at Qantas. Most recently I was attracted to an HR Director role at a publicly listed company for five years, where we transformed to four times the size and revenue, until we ourselves were taken over in a friendly manner, and my job was done, with much satisfaction.
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With my vast executive HR, leadership coaching and career transition experience, and having attended or overseen thousands of job interviews, I meet many great people who struggle to sell themselves for role opportunities. It's not only our technical skills that we have to offer, but judgement, values and passion that makes each of us unique. My commitment to you is to provide you with some simple tools, help you find your brand and unique value add, and how to use your vast network as well to match your greatness to a purposeful role.
Having suffered a severe brain injury in 2018, I was forced to start nurturing my brain which led to improved wellbeing, performance, and transformation of my leadership style. I am now a certified practitioner of the i4 Neuro-Leadership framework so I can help others unlock that same transformation I discovered by balancing brain health, to be healthier, a better human, and a leader with positive impact.
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Don't limit your prospects and capability - Think Big and Thrive.
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Read further to find out about some of the specialised coaching I provide, so you can be the person you want to be in a purposeful, and well matched role.
Networking Skills
Networking introductions and referrals account for the majority of quality hires. I'm often known as an amazing networker, and sure enough, my last 3 roles in the past decade have all originated from the network. Let me share some key strategies, and my own tips so that you minimise wasted time and energy, and a frustrated ego. Networking is not "LinkedIn". That's an important place to start and I can help you with that, but there's so much more.
Your Unique CV That Brands You
Your CV is your brand and you have only 9 seconds to gain the attention of the recruiter. Let me give you some tips to really show your uniqueness and value to your next employer, and then provide feedback on your document so you start the process ahead of the pack. It also sets you up nicely for preparing for that interview you now have a greater chance of getting.
Interview Ready and Confidence
In my previous roles as HR Director, my team and I sourced 1,400 new hires in five years. I know what recruiters and hiring managers look for in a highly contested market. Let me prepare you for interviews and run through simulations, so that you shine out as a person on top of the list to help reduce the manager's anxiety and finally bring hope to make their life easier. I will prepare you with the magic question to skilfully work out what are their core needs early on in the interview.
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