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Andrea McDonald.
Director, Employee Engagement
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Genuinely caring about people and the quality of work you deliver leads to great outcomes

Andrea is one of the founding Directors of u&u recruitment partners.  She is passionate about ensuring u&u is a market leader in its field, a trusted partner for clients and candidates and a great place to work for its people.  Overall, her focus is to ensure u&u strives to be ‘its best self’ with candidates, customers and employees.  

Andrea commenced her recruitment career in 2003 with an international recruitment brand where she established their first HR recruitment practice for Queensland.  Over her years with the business she led a range of diverse recruitment practices and was ultimately the National Practice Leader for HR recruitment.  

After u&u joined the Will International group, Andrea moved into a role where she wears two ‘hats’ across both Will International and u&u.  Firstly, at u&u she works closely with the national HR recruitment team to provide support in helping them achieve a best-practice, nationally connected team to provide exceptional service to u&u’s HR clients and candidates.  She also engages her long-standing HR relationships to provide value added services and events to the u&u HR network nationally.   

Secondly, Andrea works with the nine Will International recruitment brands across APAC (ChapmanCG, Ethosbeath Chapman, Quay Appointments, Good Job Creations, OAI, Scientec and Dfp) across a range of projects and initiatives to help the team members and the organisations succeed and thrive.

Andrea has a double degree in Business and Science from Queensland University of Technology and has completed a Post Graduate Diploma in Management through Central Queensland University.

What is your favourite unique travel destination? Waiheke Island off the coast of Auckland.  It has beautiful beaches amongst amazing wineries and great restaurants- all of my favourite things!

If you had to choose your last meal on earth, what would it be? The whole crispy fish from Spirit House on the Sunshine Coast.

What is the best advice you’ve been given? On average it takes ten years to become an overnight success…find what you love and don’t give up.

What would you tell your younger self when finding your first job? Be teachable, be humble, aim to serve, have confidence in your worth, always be the hardest worker in the room and the rest will come.

Group Director – People: Cover-More Travel Insurance

Executive Leader – People & Safety: Queensland Urban Utilities

General Manager – People and Culture: Auto & General

Head of Organisational Development: Auto & General

Head of Culture and Capability: Bank of Queensland

Head of HR Shared Services: UnitingCare Queensland

Head of Talent and People Services: Youi

Head of People and Culture: Lite n’ Easy

Head of People and Performance: Morgans Financial Limited

Get in touch
andrea.mcdonald@uandu.com
Call me on 07 3232 9103
Visit me at the Brisbane offices
Connect with me on LinkedIn