Angus Jenkins
I was researching recruitment processes as part of my commerce degree when I was hired by the finance department at Mobil Oil in New Zealand. Receiving an offer out of thousands of graduate applicants was too rare to turn down and I began to steer my career through customer service towards HR, ending up in a training role. From my early perceptions, I saw some firms managing people terribly and thought that they weren’t fully utilising their most obvious resource. Inspirational leaders and technically gifted managers often didn’t know how to get the most out of their people, and I identified a need to bridge that gap.
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