Swipejobs founder Katrina Leslie

Swipe right: How Katrina Leslie is challenging how the world gets hired

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The Queensland cattle farmer’s daughter behind Swipejobs spent 30 years studying how people get hired. Now she is eyeing a multi-billion dollar IPO.

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Jane Hussey remembers meeting Katrina Leslie in 1994 – two women in their 20s, solid Aussie accents, on the way up. They just clicked, and at that very first meeting, Hussey asked Leslie, then Westpac’s 27-year-old head of human resources, what her big-picture goals were.

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