Podcast #002 – Dave Labuschagne on "Doing well by doing good"
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Dave Labuschagne is a sales lead at ExploreAI. Since early 2022 he's run the Placements capability – helping find the ExploreAI Academy students jobs. He does this by engaging corporate partners, helping them on their digital transformation journey by providing data science, data engineering, and data analytics talent.
Dave is a surfer, a safari salesman, and economics-trained. We discuss Dave's journey from studying economics, becoming a game ranger, studying data science, and ultimately working in placements and sales. We delve into the common mistakes graduates make as they enter the job market, how culture in the workplace has been affected by the move to remote working, how rejections in sales teach different approaches to deal with failure, and how Dave optimises for 'Doing well by doing good'.
