Hear The Stories of Our Indigenous People - Meet priscilla west

I guess my career at Telstra's help me shape the community by transferring other skills that we use within Telstra and out into the community as well so managing stakeholders and things like that. Learning all those skills and transferring them into the community has helped me... be more involved in the projects and the community, which you are in Telstra anyway so they transfer across to each other to help each other out. I feel like an important part of the team with Telstra. People from different parts of the industry, internally all of our different stakeholders, are continuously engaging me to help out with community work so that we get things done for our customers, and that happens on a regular basis from all different stakeholders across the board. So, they make you feel important as well, because you're involved in teamwork to get things done for customers. I've had many roles, many job opportunities. In the 18 years I've been with Telstra, I've had 18 different roles. This is my 18th. A lot of the jobs, I've been thrown into, and just taught myself how to do the role. which has been really exciting because you just learn so much as you go, and a lot of the people you've got around you in Telstra are very supportive, and they just help you out, learning more and more, so you can move onto your next job. Telstra connects in many ways to our Indigenous heritage, one of the things we have the opportunity to do is be selected for leadership programs. Both men and women can do that program, and basically, you learn leadership skills you can use at work and at home in our Indigenous communities. so that we create better communities and healthier communities for everybody. Some of the other stuff we get involved in is many career opportunities, traineeships, making sure our products match up with our communities, and our Indigenous communities and some signage that we have on our Telstra shops as well, that we've got acknowledging the traditional owners of the land that the Telstra shop sits on. To be an employment ambassador for Telstra makes sense to me, I mean, as part of where I sit in my kinship, I'm the eldest in the family, so part of our Indigenous culture is I have responsibilities to be an ambassador for my people. So to be an ambassador for Telstra as well, you're just bringing the two together, and it just makes sense to me to be able to do both in the one hit, and it just feels good to give back to the community, and have Telstra involved in our Indigenous community as well.