Trevor Weeding - Head of Operations and HR, TryPOD Australia & Enigma HR

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Trevor argues there is 'no perfect way' to handle redundancies, but human respect still matters.

1. Your Career Podcast with Jane Jackson features Trevor Weeding, whose path moves from media sales to HR and offshore team operations. 2. Trevor Weeding is introduced as Head of Operations and HR for TryPOD Australia and Senior Consultant at Enigma HR, and Jane Jackson frames him as a career-change guest with 35 years in media. 3. The episode asks how Trevor rebuilt his career after leaving accounting, moving through sales, management, recruitment, HR, and business ownership. 4. Trevor says he started brass band music at age 12 and wanted to join the army as an apprentice musician. 5. He remembers wanting to be a 'muso' and describes playing euphonium, which he says sits in the brass band's lower register. 6. He studied accounting in Victoria in the 1970s, then quit halfway through year four because he could not face 'sitting there' doing audit work. 7. A local community newspaper offered him an accounting clerical role, but the accountant redirected him to a cadet sales rep position instead. 8. Trevor says that move launched a 35-year career in newspaper sales, where small-business clients became 'trusted advisor' relationships. 9. He contrasts old-school 'foot in the door' sales training with what he calls the best practice of relationship selling and finding the client's pain points. 10. Trevor describes a setback after being headhunted into a role that lasted only three months, which sent him back down to a junior level. 11. He says that reversal forced him to rebuild his career from scratch and eventually move into management of sales teams and business units. 12. The move from Melbourne to Sydney expanded his responsibilities to health and safety, non-selling staff, and budget control across a newspaper business. 13. Trevor says he later left the media industry to return to Melbourne for his parents, who were both unwell, and his father died before the move was complete. 14. He and his partner then tried living in the Philippines for four months before family reasons brought them back to Australia. 15. At a networking event after returning, Catherine McMillan from Circle Recruitment and HR gave him her card and invited him for coffee. 16. Trevor says that meeting led directly to a business development manager job and his entry into recruitment and HR. 17. He says his own business, Development Pathways, started in December 2019 and had to be rebuilt after COVID-19 disrupted the original plan. 18. Trevor explains that TryPOD Australia provides bespoke offshore team solutions in the Philippines, with clients selecting staff while the business handles operations and payroll. 19. Jane's interview style is direct and practical, and Trevor answers with detailed examples from media, networking, redundancy, and hiring. 20. Listeners who want career change, HR, or redundancy insights will get the most from this episode, while people wanting a short, casual chat may skip it.

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A steady look at reinvention, transferable skills, and the business side of a career reset.

Trevor Weeding's path comes across as a practical reinvention story, shaped by the realities of small business. After a 35-year media career, he made a fresh start in 2014, moved into community-focused work in Sydney's southern suburbs, spent 10 years with ESBEC supporting small…

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