TFI - Elaine Morrison
What is your name? Elaine Morrison
What do you do for a living in 10 words? I help people find a career within the maritime industry
Where do you currently reside? Inverkip
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Describe yourself in 3 words?
Loyal, caring and chatty
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Tell us what your typical day at work looks like?
I’m still the newbie and learning new things everyday about the recruitment world. I enjoy the variety of tasks I get to do such as sourcing new candidates and business leads, helping candidates with interview prep and finding their new career.
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What would you want to tell your 20-year-old self-knowing what you know now?
I instantly thought of telling myself to travel more but I think I’ve made up for this in the last few years.
Stop worrying about the small stuff, life is too short. Stop overthinking and be yourself.
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What would you class as your biggest achievement so far?
I would have to say completing 3 months of farm work in the outback of Australia. This was totally outside my comfort zone as I went on my own but gained the loveliest fiends and this was that helped me get through the mentally an physically draining work.
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What was your favourite programme as a child?
Fresh Prince of Bell Air
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Who did you idolise when growing up?
My mum for working hard and always being positive and a good role model for my sisters and I.
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What memories do you have of your first ever job?
My first ever job was working for a telecommunications company as a customer service advisor. I enjoyed working in a nice team with incentives for selling phones it was fun environment.
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If you could invite anyone (dead or alive) for dinner who would you invite and why?
David Attenborough because I think he is inspirational and would have good chat. He would also be able to open my eyes to all the things we could do to help the environment.
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Tell us something about yourself that not many people would know?
I appeared on the BBC kids gameshow “50/50” with my class when I was in primary 7. I still haven’t watched this back as I missed the live show on TV because I was on holiday.