What career accomplishment
are you most proud of?
Before I can say what I am proud of, I have to
acknowledge what I am grateful for. My mother was
a single mum who often worked three jobs to provide
for her children. She afforded me the privilege of a first-
class high school education that paved the way to my
acceptance at USQ. I was the only one of my siblings who
studied at university — not because I was the smartest, far
from it. I was the youngest, and this meant I had privileges
that my elder siblings did not. I am forever grateful to my
mother and my siblings for the support and care I was
surrounded with growing up. My mother taught me the
value of hard work and to respect the value of money.
From these humble beginnings, the fact that I am now
working in New York, and responsible for the team who
find the best people on the planet to make the world more
open and connected for the 1.8 billion people who use
Facebook every month, blows my mind. Landing the job as
Head of Global Recruitment for Facebook was absolutely
the proudest moment of my career.
Where do you see yourself five
years from now?
Each year, I write a vision for the year ahead. (I don’t tend
to plan too far in advance of a year!) I write this vision
in January as if it's the 31st of December that year and
I'm looking back, describing what I've achieved. I write
about my contribution to family, my physical, emotional
and mental health, community and work. Across each of
these dimensions of my life I would hope that I am doing
better than the year before, and that I am more focused,
more balanced and more grateful.
What’s it like working for
Facebook?
• We are a committed group of people working together
to connect the world. The people at Facebook are
smart, ambitious, and driven by the belief that a
connected world is a better world.
• We work differently. We’re applying the same level of
innovation that we use to create products to build a
culture and a company that can redefine the way work
gets done.
• We solve problems with global scale and complexity.
The scale and complexity of Facebook’s system is
unprecedented. People can work on problems at
Facebook that they can’t work on anywhere else. Our
work touches the lives of more than 1.8 billion people.
Quick 5 with Miranda:
1. What are you most impressed by in a job
interview?
Candor, confidence and preparation.
2. What are you least impressed by in a job
interview?
Name-dropping and arrogance.
3. What can students be doing now to help their
careers later?
Valuing the relationships that they’ve developed as
students. These relationships will form their future
networks and can be lifelong if they are treasured as a
student.
4. What stops people from progressing to the
interview process? Do you have any advice for
these people?
Your strengths are the things you do that when you
are doing them you lose track of time, because you
are fully absorbed and ‘in your zone’. Knowing your
strengths, validating them with the people closest to
you, and being able to articulate them will be a distinct
advantage in any interview.
5. What stands out to you on a résumé?
Someone whose activities demonstrate a need to
juggle competing priorities and effectively manage
their time — a slice of real life rather than a
manufactured one, for example, part-time work, study,
extracurricular activities or community work.