Fleur HullFleur is a high-energy and results-driven career coach with a passion for personal and organisational growth. She thrives in high-pressure situations and feels most fulfilled when she has played a role in assisting people and organisations to reach teir potential. Throughout her younger years, Fleur's parents ran numerous successful small businesses, and she absorbed the imperatives of operational and people management through many dinnertime conversations as well as part-time work in family business ventures. These businesses ranged from garden centres, a pickle factory, a spice packing business, store protection services, ergonomic furniture sales and office design and fit-out services. After graduating in economics and Japanese, Fleur worked in a Japanese local government office and honed her understanding of Japanese language and culture. The bulk of Fleur's professional experience is in the higher education sector, for the first seven years in communications and student support at a young university, whose enrolments grew nearly three-fold during her four years in charge of course advisory and student recruitment. She presented to and advised thousands of high school and mature-age students about their career and course choices during this time. This ignited Fleur's passion for seeing people find a satisfying and rewarding path through their lives. Fleur then leveraged this experience, as well as the knowledge gained from two master's degrees, to position herself as a senior strategy and change adviser in the education sector. Her management roles gave her inside perspective on the hiring process, and what makes a candidate attractive to an employer. Fleur has personally reviewed thousands of job applications and resumes for more than 100 roles in her career journey, positioning her as a valued adviser to anyone seeking a job. Fleur first seriously considered writing a book when she was living in New Delhi, India, with her young family in 2012. Her parenting and work responsibilities took precedence and Fleur put the book-writing idea on hold. After a major client ended her consulting contract as a result of COVID-19 in March 2020, Fleur and her former colleague, Kym Kraljevic, decided to start a podcast about the impact of the pandemic on employment and the economy. Fleur realised there was a need for a career guidance reference source that reflected the way the world had changed, and the podcast morphed into the Career after COVID-19 paperback and e-book. Read More Read Less