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My name's Julia Pryor. I did the Executive Master of Arts in 2012
and I'm now the General Counsel, Head of Risk and Compliance
and Company Secretary at Vision Super. I did my internship at Australian Super
and I did that because
I wanted to get into the superannuation industry and I realized that
the internship was a perfect opportunity to strategically
direct my attention at the industry that I wanted to get into.
For the last fifteen years before I study the EMA
I was a lawyer and I principally worked in the financial services area
so before that obviously I did a Law degree and a Arts degree at Melbourne University
I came out of that and started working as a lawyer in 1997.
Towards the
time when I decided to do the EMA in 2012
I was working part-time in an organization,
I had three young children and I felt that
at that stage of my life my career had stalled a little bit
and I wanted to do something that was both interesting
but will also help me with my future career path and the way that I decided
to do that
was to take a year off completely from work
and to devote myself to full-time study
and the way that I came to decide to do the
EMA itself, was looking at what my options were.
Would I do an MBA? Would I do something completely different?
Would I do something that would
both be enjoyable and a bit of a breather from
full-time work as well as useful for
future career and I decided on the last option and I did look what widely at
what options were out there and decided that the EMA was
the best option to fulfil both those categories.
And for me the AM I was an opportunity to put my head up above the parapet
and to see the world and to understand the way the world
fits together. I'm still learning that and I think that's something that we all
keep learning forever. But for me that was the breathing space I needed
to think about what I wanted to do going forward.