My name is Shivon and I work as a senior policy officer at the Department of Premiering Cabinet. First got into working in policy when I was a project manager at an offer profit. I since then moved over to government and worked as a project manager doing policy work as part of being a project manager. And I have now been working as a policy professional and that being myself focused for the past four years. Three traits that I think make a good policy officer are being a good communicator, having common sense and also being able to both dig down into the detail but to be able to rise up and see issues in their broader context. So my role is to be the policy lead for a vast array of complex policy issues and projects. So as part of that my responsibility is to prepare briefs and make recommendations to the Premier and the DPC executive on how to progress on certain issues and complex policy problems. So two days are never the same in my role. One day I could be briefing the Deputy Secretary on a contentious issues that's coming to cabinet for consideration. And another day I could be preparing a brief for the Premier in advance of her attending a meeting with a stakeholder or presenting in Parliament. Working in policy is a great role for someone who likes a lot of variety and who like solving complex problems using research, collaboration and critical analysis skills. My favourite part about working in policy is the variety of issues that I work on and the fact that they're issues that I'm really interested in and that I feel in my role I have the ability to influence these issues that I actually care about.