AAGE Committee
The AAGE Committee is made up of a number veteran employer members who regularly meet to form the 'engine room' of the AAGE. Representing a cross-section of the broader membership, our dedicated committee members volunteer their experience, wisdom and expertise year on year to ensure the growth and success of the AAGE. You can find more information on joining the AAGE Committee below.
Toni Bailey - Connect on LinkedIn
Senior Learning and Development Advisor, Fulton Hogan
Toni is Fulton Hogan’s Senior Learning and Development Advisor in Australia, based in Sydney. Toni has been active in recruitment across ANZ for the last 10 years, recruiting both technical and non-technical professionals globally within the engineering industry. For the last 5 years Toni has led and been involved in graduate recruitment at Fulton Hogan, focussing on identifying and developing early career entrants. This has resulted in her now leading Fulton Hogan’s Graduate Leadership program across Australia. Toni sees her recruitment and teaching experience going hand in hand to develop young leaders within STEM environments to help build their engineering capability and careers from the ground up.
Joanne Dean - Connect on LinkedIn
HR Manager Graduate Programs, Ashurst
Jo is currently an HR Manager Graduate Programs based in Sydney for global law firm, Ashurst. Responsible for leading and coordinating the national graduate program in Australia with a focus on consistency, efficiency and quality. Jo is passionate about attracting top talent and assisting students transition from university to a career in law.
Over the past 13 years Jo has specialised in graduate recruitment and development prior to Ashurst for a major retailer. Jo also has experience in generalist HR, management of recognition programs and facilitation of talent development programs.
Alex Knight - Connect on LinkedIn
Attraction & Engagement Lead, PwC
Alex has recently joined the team at PwC as Attraction & Engagement Lead. Prior to this, Alex lead the early careers talent strategy in Australasia for Arup - a global Engineering Consultancy - and spent three and a half years in the Graduate Talent Acquisition team at Deloitte, where he was awarded Most Popular Graduate Recruiter at the 2017 AAGE Graduate Recruitment Industry Awards (AGRIAs). Alex has a passion for talent branding and employer value proposition, and ensuring a candidate-centric, yet authentic recruitment process.
Elizabeth Lam - Connect on LinkedIn
Asia Pacific & Japan University Program Manager, Adobe
Elizabeth has worked in the graduate industry for over fifteen years, spending ten years consulting to Federal Government and corporate clients on recruitment and assessment strategy both in graduate and lateral hiring. In recent roles, Elizabeth has been responsible for initiating the design and build of structured graduate development and internship programs, establishing processes and ensuring rigour in attraction, assessment, recruitment and program management. Elizabeth is experienced in assessment methodologies in particular the design and facilitation of assessment centres and has managed many high volume graduate recruitment campaigns. Elizabeth has post graduate qualifications in Human Resource Management, holds Hogan Assessments accreditation and is certified to deliver DDI leadership courses. She is passionate about Graduate and Early Career development.
Rialet le Roux - Connect on LinkedIn
Graduate Program Coordinator, Thiess
Rialet has worked in recruitment and selection as well as general HR roles across various industries in South Africa and Australia over the past 20 years. Since 2011 she has been actively involved in graduate recruitment within the mining industry and joined Thiess in 2017 as Graduate Program Coordinator.
Rialet is responsible for the management of their talent pipeline programs which include the Scholarship Program, Vacation & Graduate Programs. She loves working with graduates, supporting them on their learning and development journeys to ensure they get the most out of their program.
Michelle Moss - Connect on LinkedIn
Senior Talent Partner, Department of Treasury (WA)
Michelle Moss is the Senior Talent Partner at the Department of Treasury, Western Australia and manages the attraction, recruitment and development of Treasury’s student and graduate programs. She has held roles in both private and public sector in Australia, Hong Kong and London and previously lead the Careers and Leadership Centre at Edith Cowan University, Western Australia. Michelle has a Bachelor of Business (Marketing and Public Relations) and a Masters of Human Resource Management and is passionate about seeing graduates reach their potential. She also has a strong interest in strengthening partnerships between industry and universities.
James Nardella - Connect on LinkedIn
Assistant Director, Australian Taxation Office
James is AHRI certified HR practitioner with eleven years’ experience in the Human Resources (HR) profession. In the past 21 years, he has worked with the ATO, James has held a diverse range of HR focussed and leadership positions including being the Docklands Site Leader, People Support Team Business Partner, HR Manager for the Australian Charities and Not-for-Profit Commission and also undertook a 12-month secondment the Australian HR Institute.
James is currently an Assistant Director in the ATO Entry Level Programs and is responsible for leading a small team to recruit up to 400 graduates each year. As an experienced manager, he has a strong commitment to developing and nurturing staff to achieve their full potential. Outside of work, James is the Chair of his Owners Corporation, loves running, cycling, working out in the gym and cooking up a storm for his friends.
Cholena Orr - Connect on LinkedIn
Product Owner - Talent and Culture, ANZ
As a Product Owner in ANZ’s Talent and Culture function, Cholena is responsible for ANZ’s Early Talent Strategy, Career Transition Support and Diversity and Inclusion Recruitment across the enterprise. She is passionate about creating opportunities for people so that they can lead happy and productive lives. She has HR experience across the employee lifecycle, from recruitment through to offboarding. Cholena currently lives in Melbourne on Wurundjeri country. She joined the committee in 2021.
Amishree Raivadera (Mish) - Connect on LinkedIn
Talent Acquisition Business Partner, BDO
Amishree leads student recruitment for BDO Brisbane, Melbourne and Sydney, with a focus on implementing efficiencies to attract high quality and diverse students into the undergraduate, vacation and graduate programs. Prior to recruitment, Amishree began her professional career as a Vacationer then Graduate Auditor in the BDO Brisbane team. With her first-hand experience, Amishree joined the People & Culture team with inside knowledge of how the business works and what is needed to look after professional services clients.
Drawing on her own experiences, Amishree is passionate about creating an authentic and enjoyable environment for students to kick start their careers in professional services. This lead to Amishree’s appointment as the President of the UQ Accounting Discipline Advisory Board to assist in building more rounded students through the accounting curriculum. Amishree’s love of connecting with the next generation of professionals and helping guide their career path lead to her being nominated as one of AAGE Top Graduate Recruiters for 2021.
Madeline West - Connect on LinkedIn
Early Careers Lead, Arup
Madeline recently joined Arup as the Early Careers Lead for Australasia and is looking forward to transforming Arup’s graduate recruitment strategy to align with the changing needs of the business. Madeline’s prior experience is in Graduate recruitment at AECOM and Technology Intern recruitment at National Australia Bank.
Madeline has a passion for diversity and inclusion with a strong belief that graduates have the potential to positively influence the existing culture within an organisation. So far in her career Madeline has implemented various strategies to make recruitment processes fairer and more accessible for all candidates with a focus on attracting diverse talent.
Interested in joining the AAGE Committee?
The expectations of a committee member are as follows:
- Attend monthly AAGE Committee meetings via teleconference (approximately one hour per month).
- Bring fresh, creative ideas to the table and provide input on all issues raised by the Committee.
- Advocate the AAGE and support recruiting new members. Attend local events and host events from time to time (e.g. providing venue, presenting or MC-ing).
- Be involved on a sub-committee or a major project during the year.
- Be prepared and available to be interviewed from time to time for various media.
- Attend AAGE Annual Conference and provide input, such as hosting workshop sessions or presenting.
- Work towards further developing the AAGE and its mission to improve graduate outcomes through networking.
Anyone who wishes to nominate for a position on this year's committee may do so at the Annual General Meeting or at any other time via info@aage.com.au. Nominations must be made using the AAGE Committee Nomination Form.