The Seldon Rosser Podcast

Welcome back to our special podcast series, Careering. In this series we speak with experienced leaders about the unexpected detours in their career journey. Speaking candidly about their experiences, our guest will inspire and motivate, offering advice and suggestions for how to re-route your career when it comes off the rails. About our guest, Leesa Rawlings Leesa Rawlings is VP Talent Acquisition, Asia for Manulife. Since 2009, Leesa has worked in Singapore for major brands including Mercer, Google, Diaego and now Manulife. Prior to working in Asia, Leesa started her career in Melbourne, Australia. Leesa shares insights from both a personal and professional perspective as a leader in Talent Acquisition.

In this special episode, Katie Rosser & Graham Seldon answer your questions about finding work and advancing your career in the COVID-19 economy. This includes: Should I stay in my current role due to COVID-19, even though I feel ready to move on? How easy is it to find a senior role in the current job market? I was made redundant during maternity leave, will it affect my prospects of securing a new role? How do I progress my career in a larger firm if my experience is in a smaller firm?

Welcome back to our special podcast series, Careering. In this series we speak with experienced leaders about the unexpected detours in their career journey. Speaking candidly about their experiences, our guest will inspire and motivate, offering advice and suggestions for how to re-route your career when it comes off the rails. About our guest, Dale Bryce Dale Bryce is currently Director - Delivery & Commercial for specialist power & water consultants, Entura. He started his career in public relations, working with Lloyds Register in the UK and later heading up communications for one of Australia's largest law firms, King Wood Mallesons. He then took a seven year stint establishing and leading a global capability marketing team at Sinclair Knight Merz, which became part of the Jacobs Engineering Group - one of the largest engineering firms in the world. Many listeners may also recall that Dale was once the President of APSMA, now ICON. If you look at Dale's career path on LinkedIn, it's certainly impressive and at first glance looks flawless. But closer inspection shows a gap for a few months mid 2014 between leaving Jacobs and starting at Entura. We focus on this period for the podcast, where Dale went from running a global team and a business with 70,000 people to being without a role at all. How did he get his career back on track? This is Dale's story.

Welcome to the first episode of our special Seldon Rosser podcast series called Careering. In this series we speak with experienced leaders about the unexpected detours in their career journey. Speaking candidly about their experiences, our guest will inspire and motivate, offering advice and suggestions for how to re-route your career when it comes off the rails. About our guest, Jayson Williams Jayson Williams is the Asia Head of BD and Marketing for global law firm DLA Piper, based in Hong Kong. He has lived and worked in Hong Kong for six years. The past eight years of his résumé show an impressive career trajectory: BD Manager at a boutique law firm in Melbourne, Senior BD Manager, Corporate for Clifford Chance Head of BD for Hong Kong's oldest law firm, Deacons. It sounds like a flawless career so far. But what many people don't know is before working in BD for law firms, he founded and ran a multi-million dollar business in Australia, managing a workforce of one hundred across many different sectors and industries. He was a self-made man by the age of 35, until it all went horribly wrong. The global financial crisis (and other factors) devastated his business. And within 18 months he had lost or sold on almost everything. How did he get his career back on track? This is his story. Thanks to the City of Melbourne for funding this podcast through a grant.

In this special episode of the Seldon Rosser podcast, Katie Rosser and Graham Seldon discuss the 2020 salary benchmarks, and trends in the salary bands by role and region. To learn more about what your role is worth, check out the 2020 salary benchmark data on https://seldonrosser.com/salary-benchmarks. Of course, these tables present just the data and it's important to understand that salaries differ between roles, regions, sectors, firms and candidates. We invite you to contact us for a confidential discussion about your salary and potential earning opportunities.