I'm your host Gary Nowak and today I had so much fun with my wise beyond his years guest Alex Ribeiro
Career Overview
- KFC for over 6 years and started at the age of 14
- Commonwealth Bank for a year
- Grad program @ Telstra for over 4 years with positions in:
- Human Resources delivery partner role
- Transformation and people business consultant
- Senior change & Implementation consultant
- Bachelor degree in Business / commerce from University of Technology Sydney
Highlights
KFC job taught him early about Customer service
Parents:
- Parents were major influencer
- Brought a strong Work ethic
- Immigrated from Portugal
Grad program
- Great australian Telco company
- Assessment process
- Nothing to lose
- Take a lot away
- Learning opportunity
- Try to be yourself
- Treat this like meeting a new house mate
- Show up with your best foot forward
- Other applicants had a lot of pressure on them
- HR being a deliberate career choice
Applying for 3 grad programs vs others applying for 50
Loves building relationships, working in a team, impacting those around him
Over indexing on
- Collaboration
- Listening
- Learning from your peers
Building relationships
- Help me understand your part of the business
- Finite timeline where you can use the "newbie" card
- Giving people the benefit of the doubt
- Most people are happy to connect
- Being comfortable with NOT knowing something, which gives him the opportunity to learn
- Curiosity is key
The pecking order in the Ribeiro Household with kids third and jesus second
Loves getting feedback and coaching, it's getting information to make future decsions
Advice
- Always work hard
- Do what you enjoy, not what others want you to do
Bigger Influencer in his career Mom or Rinaldo (tough call)
Nearly losing $50,000 failing big and failing early (great for his career)
Dealing with people losing their jobs at this stage of his career
Success isn't a set career plan or destination at this point in time
Finally what he would do with $100 and $1000, the guy is a giver
- When the stars aligned within the HR group
Want to be a guest? Email me at gpnowak@gmail.com!