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LinkMe: So, Geoff, why is a career important?
Geoff: Because it keeps recruiters in work, every time you change your job, the recruiters... No, sorry, I'll get serious.
Now I think, a career, I have always had a view ever since Andrew [Banks] and I worked together that career is a critically important thing in people's lives, so I've always felt as a recruiter that we do things in the community that can help people better their lives.
So, I know sounds a bit corny, but, I see our soldiers as equally important as a doctor that looks after someone's health; we look after someone's corporate health and their own personal well being and satisfaction.
If someone's got a good career, and they're excited by it, they're motivated by it, they feel like they're growing, they really feel good in life. And in their, what I call a 'life cycle driver', if career is the middle of the circle, it affects your health, it affects where you live, it affects the sort of car you drive, it affects the sort of holidays you go on, it affects how you manage and help your family, it affects everything that you do in life.
So, it's a key component. It's 5 days out of 7 that you're at work, so it's a critical part of your life and all the people who are there, are usually, are most of them, your best friends.
So, it's a core part of what you do. So you need to make sure that you love what you do, you're motivated everyday when you get out bed and you want go to that place of work, and you feel like keep growing in that environment. Because that's what builds your self esteem and we all want to feel good about ourselves in life, we want to look in that mirror, and look at that person, looking back at you, and think 'I'm proud of you; you're doing a really good job' and if you don't feel like that everyday, you need to be looking to do something else because you deserve to have a job like that.
