Mother and rural work advocate Jo Palmer believes "location is no barrier".
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And her work with connecting rural and remote employees with businesses across the country has seen her named as the 2019 AgriFutures Rural Women's Award national winner.
Mrs Palmer, who is based at The Rock, is passionate about creating employment opportunities for rural and remote Australians and helping them work from wherever they are in the country.
She founded Pointer Remote Roles to provide a pathway for companies, corporations and government agencies to fill positions with the best candidate for the job.
The business is a job-matching platform which aims to help people who "ended up on the land" find employment.
"I had a large number of my girlfriends that had left corporate Australia, married farmers, ended up on the land and couldn't find employment in their area of training," Mrs Palmer said.
"We placed an accounting firm in a small town in NSW that had been advertising for a chartered accountant for over eight months and hadn't had a single application.
"They advertised with us and we put forward three chartered accountants. They engaged somebody and she started then. That was a rural candidate, for a $95,000 job and that money has gone into that town."
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Adding to the $10,000 already awarded to each state finalist from Westpac, Mrs Palmer will receive an additional $10,000 Westpac Bursary to further progress her winning project at the awards night on Wednesday in Canberra.
She plans to use the bursary to create a portal within her platform that will provide a series of resources, training and formal certifications to help "alleviate road blocks that hold many rurally based professionals back from engaging with remote work".
AgriFutures Australia managing director John Harvey said Mrs Palmer "exemplified all that the award represents".
"Her ability to identify societal shifts and use these to drive opportunities for rural, regional and remote Australia demonstrates exceptional leadership," he said.
Kyneton beekeeper Claire More was the runner-up.
"That was a rural candidate, for a $95,000 job and that money has gone into that town.
"Rural businesses have had to hire a jack of all trades and jam a square peg into a round hole.
"Remote work gives them access to the skills they need for specialist job hires."
Adding to the $10,000 already awarded to each state finalist from Westpac, Mrs Palmer will receive an additional $10,000 Westpac Bursary to further progress her winning project at the awards night on Wednesday in Canberra.
She plans to use the bursary to create a portal within her platform that will provide a series of resources, training and formal certifications to help "alleviate road blocks that hold many rurally based professionals back from engaging with remote work".
AgriFutures Australia managing director John Harvey said Mrs Palmer "exemplified all that the award represents".
"Her ability to identify societal shifts and use these to drive opportunities for rural, regional and remote Australia demonstrates exceptional leadership," he said.
Kyneton beekeeper Claire More was the national runner up.