Case studies
Queensland's digital workforce reflects our diversity, with people from all walks of life matching their interests to fulfilling digital careers.
Digital professionals can help connect people and communities, and make services easier to use and to find. There may be more to a digital career than you might think—today’s digital professionals are very different to the IT roles of the past.
Hear from digital and IT professionals working in Queensland about their learning and career pathway, and why they chose a digital career.
Videos
Hear what Queensland digital professionals have to say about digital careers and the importance of learning digital skills.
Amelia St Baker, Digital Strategist: My one piece of advice to a young person who wishes to go into a digital career is just to get started and start exploring because the skills you learn, from pretty much anywhere, are really going to be valuable. And the sooner you start learning, the sooner you can start applying it, and trial and error and you have that catalogue of stuff you've already done.And that's what an employee is really looking for, is evidence that you've done something already.
Yash Dutt, Founder/CEO, YUVA AI: I would recommend a digital career to anybody, any young person because of all the opportunities that you have to be seen to be heard. What that does for you is it creates an infinite amount of opportunities for people to reach out to you, for companies to reach out to you, for you to become a thought leader within your space. And then from there, the world is literally always there.
Georgie Desailly, Writer/Content Producer: My one piece of advice for someone who wants to enter a digital career would be to not be afraid, to not follow the status quo. There are so many ways that you can into the industry and work your way up, and it's not a linear process. So don't be afraid to pursue what you think is right in the moment and then follow your talents.
Matt Steine, Managing Director, Smart Precinct NQ: There's a thing that happened through the nineties and the 2000s when people started talking about the digital economy. Everything is digital today. Whether you were pulling iron ore out of the ground or whether you are harvesting sugarcane. If you are not studying something that's digital, then you're going to be left behind. Whether that's being an engineer, whether that's being a lawyer, whether that's being a nurse or a doctor. Digital has to be a core component of your capability. If you're going to be part of the future economy.
Lynore Close, Security Systems Engineer: When I was in ICT training, and this year-12 student had lost her essay and it was like end of the year. So, she had multiple exams, multiple essays. She needs to submit and her USB died. So, she comes into the ICT little room. She's like, "Can you help me?" bawling her eyes out. So, what I did, plugged her USB into my computer, run this software, bring her essay back that she’s lost and she's been crying all night about and then I give it back to her. And just the relief on her face meant more to me than the millions of dollars of projects I've done. The implementations and security uplifts over the years, just that one little person, helping her in such a significant part of her life is my most favourite memory.
Yash Dutt, Founder/CEO, YUVA AI: One of the best things of having a digital career is that you can work from anywhere. So, all you need is a laptop, an Internet connection, and you can be working on the beach, you can be working overseas, you can be working from home. You have to be well versed in digital. If it's not already digital, it's going to be digital. I think what you're increasingly going to see is, is more overlap in the technical worlds. And then also the human and like social world. Right? And so that is going to be a fundamental skill set that everybody will need to have.