Name: Katie
Logie-Smith
Role: Recruiter
How long have you been
doing it?
Longer than I care to
admit! I started in 1998
How
did you get started in it?
Like so
many other recruiters I came back from a “working holiday” in the UK and literally
fell into it. I was so lucky – I joined PKL Personnel (support staff
recruitment) and was fourth on board. We built it from scratch and it was so
much fun.
I ended
up leading a team of permanent recruiters before I moved overseas with Michael
Page to NYC.
Best
thing about your job?
The
excitement of the chase. Finding the right person for the job and winning that
placement over competitors in the market.
Worst
thing about your job?
I’m naturally
a positive person so while there are things I don’t love, such as trawling
databases, there isn’t really any part of it that I find intensely
off-putting…..yet ….. except maybe, can I cite Tony’s running shoes under his
desk?
Something
most people don’t know about you?
I worked
for Cantor Fitzgerald after the Sept 11 attacks in NYC. They were amazing
people who had suffered so much loss it defied description. It felt
wonderful to be giving something back to them just by being there to help out
as they tried to rebuild their systems, their team, their morale and their
“reason for being”.
If
you could be a super hero, what powers would you like to have?
I’ve
always wanted the ability to transport myself in the blink of an eye or a
wiggle of a nose to other places. I miss my friends and family so much as we
are all spread out over the world. In the last 10 years I’ve lived in New
York, Sydney, Melbourne, Chicago and Amsterdam.
If you could trade
places with any other person for a week, real or fictional. with whom would it
be?
Hmm, it’s a toss up
between Samantha from Bewitched or the amazing Beyonce Knowles.
If you had unlimited
money for one week, how would you spend it?
Fix some problems in the
world from transport issues, poverty to the environment…..would a week be long
enough???
And after I fixed the
world on day one I’d take myself on a holiday somewhere, buy a house without a
mortgage and a nice car, and pay school fees, get a new wardrobe, and, and,
and… you might want to get comfortable here…
Let's
say you could travel back in time and talk to yourself from ten years ago. What
would you tell yourself?
Relax!
Don’t take yourself so seriously (In fact I constantly tell myself this now!!)