Best Team in The Industry
The EastCoast Human Resource Group is a highly skilled and enthusiastic team with a strong customer focus. We succeed in business by making a meaningful contribution to the success of our clients.
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Chris Whisson
Managing Partner
Chris has been recruiting or managing high performance recruitment teams for the past 30 years. He’s been MD of the EastCoast Human Resource Group since 1994 and over that time, held dual directorships in an emerging Resort Management Group and in IT&C.
“From the outset my vision was to create a best-practice professional services firm providing a comprehensive range of human capital solutions including recruitment and HRM consultancy to a national client base. Since inception we have placed more than 10,000 people in jobs in remote locations, in capital cities around Australia, South East Asia, Nui Guinea, New Zealand and as far away as Bahrain and the Maldives. Today our service offering includes Human Resources, Recruitment, Industrial Relations, Quality Assurance, Training, Workplace Health and Safety as well as Careers Advice and Outplacement.”
After hours, Chris enjoys tennis and boating (especially wakeboarding with his kids), bare boating in the Whitsundays, and collecting Central and Western Red Desert Indigenous art.
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Michalle Faulkner
Partner
Michalle is a Partner of the EastCoast Human Resource Group and a senior Human Resource Management practitioner with more than 20 years experience gained in Building, Construction and Labour Hire industries. In addition to her business and Human Resource Management experience, she holds dual qualifications as a practising Workplace Health and Safety Officer (Construction and Services) and is a qualified Workplace Trainer & Assessor and Internal Auditor of Quality Systems.
As well as providing clients with consulting services, Michalle is responsible for the team’s delivery of specialist workforce solutions to a wide cross section of clients. She is also responsible for EastCoast Human Resource Group’s general business development.
Michalle’s commitment to her profession was recognised in 2008 when she was awarded a Business Woman of the Year Award. A devoted wife and mother of a young family, Michalle still finds the time to volunteer her time as the Professional Development Chair of a large and very active Business Women Network.
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Ian Mulville
Senior Consultant
Ian is a career HR professional, successfully holding executive-level, strategic positions in respected multinational organisations. Ian harnesses that experience to enable organisations to attain and maintain peak performance through linking Human Resources Frameworks with strategic business planning. Ian advises on Attraction and Retention strategies, compensation and benefits (including job analysis), HR Benchmarking and Audits, Change Management, Talent Management, Performance Management, Professional Development Programs and Strategic HR Recruitment.
Ian has worked with organisations in Australia and in the resources sector in Papua New Guinea. Ian also has extensive experience in Europe and the Middle East in sectors as diverse as oil and gas, pharmaceuticals, electronics, retail, heavy engineering and defence, and has also managed projects in Malaysia, Korea and Indonesia.
As part of his continuous professional development, Ian has attained a Master’s Degree in Human Resources, and is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development in the United Kingdom (UK’s highest professional accreditation).
Ian enjoys spending quality time with his young family and whenever he gets the chance, early morning mountain biking, kayaking and fishing.
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Debi Latino
Senior Recruitment Consultant
Debi’s working life is as colourful and varied as the many lands she has worked in. At one stage she was acting Water Sports Director in Upstate New York and then worked as an Assistant Tour Manager for bands touring Europe – bands like Midnight Oils, Rage Against The Machine, Black Crows and the legendary Iggy Pop, to name a few. Debi then managed an Irish pub in Hamburg before opening her very own Breakfast Cafe in the same city. Debi is one of the rare few who sees an opportunity and reaches out, grasping it with both hands. She believes in doing things right the first time and is known for her “scary” attention to detail.
Although a qualified secondary teacher, Debi established her own recruitment agency in 1999 and specialized in the exclusive placement of relief teaching staff for the Education sector. Debi sold her agency prior to joining the EastCoast Human Resource Group in 2007. Five years later Debi has a large client base spanning Medical, Dentistry and Aged Care sectors.
Debi enjoys a keen interest in both food preparation and water sports – when not preparing a dinner party for friends, you can usually find her in the water (or on it) somewhere along our fabulous coastline.
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Kylie Boulter
Senior Recruitment Consultant
Kylie is arguably one of the most experienced Legal recruiters in the industry. Her decade long recruitment career has focused almost entirely on the recruitment of Legal support and professional staff but she has recruited in the UK and established Legal “desk” for a major Australian recruiter. For the past ten years, Kylie has built EastCoast’s own formidable Legal recruitment expertise. Kylie attributes her success to focusing on the task at hand whilst at the same time juggling hundreds of balls in the air at any one time. Kylie believes in the critical need to develop and maintain good relationships with clients and candidates alike.
Kylie has traveled extensively throughout Asia, Europe, Canada, the USA and South America. Whenever she has the opportunity, Kylie spends as much time as possible with her three young children and when time does permit, she also enjoys photography, tennis and swimming.
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Lauren Broadbridge
Senior Recruitment Consultant
Lauren Broadbridge is the Lead Consultant of our Engineering desk and recruits the full range of civil, construction, design, environmental and project engineers for an international and national client base. Her expertise includes multidiscipline engineering and environmental consultancy, environment and project management.
Lauren is a Human Resource Management practitioner with a Degree in Law and a Masters in Human Resource Management to be conferred in 2012. Lauren is a qualified Workplace Trainer and Assessor and she is an active Professional Member of the Australian Human Resource Institute (AHRI).
Lauren enjoys an active life away from work and you will often find her running along the home beach or playing with her two dogs Dexter and Kri Kri. Lauren is also an inveterate social butterfly; when not enjoying the great outdoors you’ll find her socializing with a wide circle of friends.
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Lisa Burgess
Senior Recruitment Consultant
Lisa thought all her dreams had come true when she accepted our offer to join the team and moved to the Sunshine Coast with her young family, something she has always wanted to do. Lisa described her move to paradise “as the beginning of the next chapter of her life”. The icing on the cake for Lisa was knowing she could still recruit for a national client base in the pharmaceutical and medical devices sector, something she really enjoys doing even after all these years.
Lisa has 15 years recruitment experience, initially gained while recruiting roles in general commerce and industry and then for the past seven years, as a specialist recruiter in Healthcare, with particular expertise recruiting management, sales and marketing, medical and regulatory roles.
Lisa is passionate about developing genuine long term partnerships with both candidates and clients alike and she provides an distinct expertise in her area of recruitment speciality. To quote Lisa’s slant on life; “there is no challenge I can’t overcome.”
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Mitch Lawrie
Career Services Director
Mitch is EastCoast’s Director of Career Services and Senior Career Consultant. Mitch has a Master of Education in Career Guidance from QUT, is a Professional Member of the Career Development Association of Australia (CDAA) . He has undertaken postgraduate studies in leadership, human resource management and group dynamics and undergraduate studies in psychology and interpersonal communications
Mitch has a deep interest in what enables individuals to be successful and fulfilled in their careers. He has over 15 years experience in the development and delivery of interactive personal, career and team development programs in a variety of work settings. He has successfully provided career support services to numerous individuals and organizations such as the University of Queensland, Brisbane City Council, Energex and Queensland Rail.
He enjoys helping people find their career paths and be more successful at whatever is important to them. Mitch’s own career path has been diverse. His career experience includes the corporate, government and community sectors in Australia and ten years overseas in a variety of roles such as freelance photojournalist in the USA, leadership lecturer in Russia and international service project coordinator in Asia.
Mitch, who enjoys spending time with his family, considers himself fortunate to have grown up on the Sunshine Coast and still goes surfing every chance he gets.
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Rose Rixon
Director of First Impressions
Years ago, Rose worked throughout Australia as a site administrator with various Theiss joint ventures in the mining sector. Marriage and a young family was all the motivation Rose needed to make the move to the Sunshine Coast in 1998 and that was the beginning of her association with EastCoast. You see, twelve years ago Rose was one of our temps and she was on an assignment with a client when she first met Michalle Faulkner, who is now co-director of the EastCoast Human Resource Group.
For the past decade or so, Rose had worked in recruitment and human resource roles with different labour hire companies, joining up again with Michalle when she was a Director of Men at Work Labour Hire and then followed Michalle when she established Essentials 4 Business, a well known local HRM consultancy.
Apart from a high degree of computer literacy, Rose has tertiary qualifications in business, is proficient in MYOB Accounting with Payroll and various recruitment industry databases. Today Rose is responsible for candidate care and providing administration support to the company’s Directors and our team of Recruiters
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Tracy Drexler
Wagesmart (a Member of the Association for Payroll Specialists)
Tracy is responsible for this increasingly popular low cost payroll service used by small and medium sized businesses on the Sunshine Coast and beyond. There is no typical user profile and Wagesmart clients include resorts, retailers, wholesalers, IT&C firms, the construction industry and firms providing business services.
Tracy is an accounting software certified bookkeeper and Wagesmart is a Member of the Association for Payroll Specialists. Despite Tracy’s relative youth, she has gained considerable experience in general office administration, working for the likes of public practice accountants, a national insolvency specialist and one of the “four pillars” in our much maligned banking system.
When time permits, Tracy spends as much time as she can with her husband and young family of four. They love to mountain-climb together, get out on the lake for a day on the boat and ski biscuit, and heading down to the local strawberry farm to pick strawberries.
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