James Cook University Careers Directory Profiles

Any candidate with a proactive attitude willing to get the best out of others will go a long way to achieving success in my role.

I love the work environment of the mine, being able to come together with the teams I work with to solve problems and find opportunities, and of course, seeing the problem solved or the opportunity realised.

I went from school to University and studied science and engineering because I was so curious about the world.

Don’t pigeon hole yourself into a particular practice area of law. There are so many options as a lawyer, so keep an open-mind and challenge yourself.

I value CommBank’s approach to practical on-the-job learning. I’ve had the ability to apply the communications and creative problem-solving skills that I learnt at uni, to what I’m working on in the real world.

I generally work in a team, working with more senior lawyers in the group. But I also am very well supported and supervised to take on more responsibility on smaller matters.

There is a tension between conceptual purity and pragmatic implementation of statistics that must be negotiated and interpreted by the analyst, which I find both challenging and interesting.