that's a great question. So I started my academic career thinking I was going to be a teacher and did my four years as an educator, studied education, was a teacher for a few years and realized while I loved my students, I didn't really love curriculum and the day to day grind of teaching eso I looked for an opportunity where I'd be ableto have the same impact work with young people, meant or help them develop on. Guy took a job in HR, which is where I just found my passion and I've always loved the aspect of human resource is where you need someone, and you could just see the potential and you help them find an opportunity, and you watch them develop their skills and become better at their job. Developed their professional skills, watch them advance. Um, so that's my story. In terms of incidents and experiences that shared my career, I think a big drive up home it was just the risks I took, leaving a stable job as a teacher to take a job at a you know, startup company where I was employee number two, and it could have been an epic disaster, but turned out okay. The same. You know, we left South Africa and moved to the US about 15 years ago and knew no one. But I took an opportunity with not for profit. And I did stopping off to the tsunami response, um, 15 years ago, and that was again in such a wonderful learning experience and then taking an opportunity with another startup where ended up staying for 10 years and help them grow from 45 people to almost 400 you know, $60 million in revenue. So I feel like it's risks taking good calculated risks, um, knowing when to get out. When, um, you see something isn't working on Ben just taking opportunities that come your way that you didn't think you would get be interested in

I am responsible for everything to do with people and Hobson's meaning. I'm responsible for all recruitment, training, on boarding, career development, performance management as well as exiting stuff when they do leave the business, either on their choice or the businesses. Choice. Um, I'm a strategic partner to the finance team. Head count is the most expensive expense for any business. So working closely with my peers on the finance team and, uh, decisions that I make, it's How do we spend Resource is helping my recruiting team make good hiring decisions, empowering them to be efficient at their jobs, Um, leveraging technology as much as we can so that we can stay lean but still very efficient.um top three priorities. It depends on what's happening, where we are on the year and the month. Right now, my priorities are around a performance management for our business. We've just completed our annual performance review, and we'll be making, um, promotions and salary adjustments in the next couple of months. For Stocker advancing of the business, it is always hiring. One of my priorities will always be hiring the best and the brightest talent for the company and then also planning what 2021 will look like for us is a business covert has certainly changed how we operate physically as well as certain mechanics of the business. So helping our CEO and the rest of our business leaders to think through, How will we keep doing what we're doing in the new year when we're still not sure what that looks like? And then, in terms of weekly hours, probably work about 50 hours a week, on average on. That's just I spent a lot of time in meetings and then working on projects, Um, in the early mornings or later in the evenings when I have some quiet time

so we use HR specific software. The one is an African tracking system, which is the what's attached your careers page. When you apply for a job, it actually goes into an 80 s. And that's the system in which recruiting works on networks with our payroll software. So when someone gets hired, it gets pushed through. So it's HR specific software to manage the life cycle of an employee from the time that they entered the recruiting process to the time they exit. And then personally, I work very heavily in Excel. My job is very data driven, so I spend a lot of time looking at numbers.