We sat down with Jo on her anniversary to learn more about her, her recruitment journey, career highlights, and what has kept her at Six Degrees for 1.5 decades.
Jo grew up in rural WA, where most of her family still lives, but packed up and shipped herself off to start a new life in Sydney at the age of 23. Always independent, it was a personal challenge that she is proud of.
An incredibly active person, Jo is always busy socialising with friends, travelling, seeking out fun and working hard in a job she loves.
Jo spent the first 10 years of her career working in Marketing, predominantly for Chrysler Jeep before exploring the world of recruitment. She was working with an agency to find her next Marketing role when they suggested a career as a recruitment consultant.
“To be honest, I didn’t research recruitment nearly enough when I took the leap. I knew I wanted out from what I was doing, and I knew I was keen to work with people, but that was about it. I didn’t really realise that recruitment was very much a Sales role, so I struggled to adjust initially. It took a while for everything to come together for me, but after 9 months or so I started to really enjoy it.”
On arrival in Melbourne Jo met Paul Hallam (Founding Director) through a mutual friend, but it was a few years before they connected professionally. In 2008, Paul contacted Jo to speak to her about a role at Six Degrees.
Jo’s journey with Six Degrees has been nothing if not varied. Having worked across both permanent and contracting desks, she spent a long time specialising in traditional marketing, brand and some digital recruitment, followed by a stint in the retail space (category & marketing), before more recently settling into her current role of Manager for the growing Digital practice.
Jo’s team specialises in permanent and contract assignments, covering everything that is experienced-level and executive digital and e-commerce roles, from $70k to $350k in salary, and across a wide range of industries including: Retail, Consumer, Services, Healthcare, FMCG and Education.
Jo is no stranger to starting up or developing teams, having “raised” several now-experienced members of the Six Degrees team who have gone on to achieve great things.
Jo has enjoyed great successes during her time with Six Degrees, including becoming a shareholder in recent years. She has achieved the much-coveted highest biller title and attended 12 Elite trips (reserved only for the highest performing members of the Consulting group), all of which have created fond memories.
Jo is one-half of Six Degrees’ first ever coupling, with her and fiancée Scott Logan (National Contracting Lead), welcoming the first Six Degrees baby in 2017. She has completed 4 Ironman events, 1 full and 3 half-marathons, the 100km Oxfam Trailwalker event, and numerous other physical challenges, the next of which she is in the process of choosing.
Reaching a 15-year anniversary is no small achievement either, but Jo says it’s a combination of the people she works with and the opportunities the business has presented her with that has kept her motivated.
Whether you’re looking for a new Digital role or looking for help in growing your digital or ecommerce team, speak to one of our Digital recruitment specialists today.