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Tom Brunskill

πŸ‘€ Speaker
310 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

Australian Finance Podcast
Are you standing out from the crowd? (virtual work experience & learning in public)

This person is super high intent.

Australian Finance Podcast
Are you standing out from the crowd? (virtual work experience & learning in public)

They're delivering value to the business already.

Australian Finance Podcast
Are you standing out from the crowd? (virtual work experience & learning in public)

They know what we're about.

Australian Finance Podcast
Are you standing out from the crowd? (virtual work experience & learning in public)

And it's a far more powerful signal as to whether

Australian Finance Podcast
Are you standing out from the crowd? (virtual work experience & learning in public)

someone's going to be great in our company than looking at like, did they go to Harvard?

Australian Finance Podcast
Are you standing out from the crowd? (virtual work experience & learning in public)

Have they done their MBA?

Australian Finance Podcast
Are you standing out from the crowd? (virtual work experience & learning in public)

Did they get a high distinction in introduction to Pacific politics in semester one of 2008?

Australian Finance Podcast
Are you standing out from the crowd? (virtual work experience & learning in public)

They're just like poor signals.

Australian Finance Podcast
Are you standing out from the crowd? (virtual work experience & learning in public)

And I would kind of challenge people, like how can you show value to a prospective employer before engaging with them?

Australian Finance Podcast
Are you standing out from the crowd? (virtual work experience & learning in public)

And if you do that in a thoughtful, compelling way, you're going to stand out.

Australian Finance Podcast
Are you standing out from the crowd? (virtual work experience & learning in public)

Yes.

Australian Finance Podcast
Are you standing out from the crowd? (virtual work experience & learning in public)

Well, without being too biased, I would say that that's similar to what we do at Forage.

Australian Finance Podcast
Are you standing out from the crowd? (virtual work experience & learning in public)

And we've got hundreds of thousands of students in Australia alone who kind of engage in our courses of producing like legal agreements, producing video pitches, producing email correspondence, etc.

Australian Finance Podcast
Are you standing out from the crowd? (virtual work experience & learning in public)

producing lines of code, doing a whole range of interesting projects in their own time on our platform and showcasing that work to prospective employers.

Australian Finance Podcast
Are you standing out from the crowd? (virtual work experience & learning in public)

And yeah, it's a fantastic model.

Australian Finance Podcast
Are you standing out from the crowd? (virtual work experience & learning in public)

And we think that that's what the future looks like.

Australian Finance Podcast
Are you standing out from the crowd? (virtual work experience & learning in public)

And that's what hiring decisions will be based on 5, 10 years time.

Australian Finance Podcast
Are you standing out from the crowd? (virtual work experience & learning in public)

And the idea of looking at

Australian Finance Podcast
Are you standing out from the crowd? (virtual work experience & learning in public)

what your WAM is or what university you went to is going to become far less important in time.

Australian Finance Podcast
Are you standing out from the crowd? (virtual work experience & learning in public)

Yes.