People may not always remember what you say, but they will always remember how you made them feel.
Haylea is a Partner in the u&u Sydney office, leading and managing the Human Resources practice which oversees recruitment of positions across the entire people, culture and workplace health & safety remit. Haylea’s recruitment career commenced in a British multinational recruitment firm covering the human resources market in the Brisbane market. She later went on to launch and establish a national HR practice for an independent Australian recruitment firm from Brisbane QLD, recruiting all level of HR generalist and specialist roles nationally within Australia. She has recruited senior talent for ASX Listed organisations, small to medium enterprises, Not for Profit, Local, State & Federal Government Departments, and has a particular knack for finding talent for industrialised, multi-site and complex organisations.
Haylea’s style is to find the moments of magic in all connections big & small in the ever-busy & changing land of recruitment. She enjoys caring about their lives as humans, as well as providing them expert market intel and of course, connecting them to roles that equate to strategic career moves for the long-term. This approach has enabled her to forge deep and long-term relationships with HR individuals in the Australian HR market.
Haylea is passionate about empowering HR professionals to reach their full potential and representing her clients’ businesses to the market with genuine care, excitement and deep understanding of what they do. Haylea has over 8,500 LinkedIn contacts, brings nine years’ of HR recruitment experience and holds a Bachelor of Business majoring in Human Resources, and a Postgraduate Certificate in Employment & Industrial Relations.
If I had a superpower, it would be: To make my dog live forever, obviously.
What I love most about my city is: Its breathtaking beauty – the fact you can live by the beach and have a City lifestyle won’t ever get old for me!
If you had to choose your last meal on earth, what would it be? Definitely a mountain of my Mum’s spaghetti.
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Large-Scale National Project: 32x Senior HR Business Partners – Woolworths
Head of Talent Development – Brisbane City Council
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People & Culture Director – Mackay City Council
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