Karen Hassall
Office Manager, Business Manager
& Company SecretaryKaren was 12 years old when her parents started this company, so she was raised with the company integrated into our daily lives. Her father had travelled all over the world hunting, fishing and exploring since she was very young, so it came as no surprise, when he decided that he would like to bring international sportsmen and women to Australia to hunt and fish. It is a common dream to turn your hobby into your job.
Karen left school at 17 and attended business college to become a professional secretary. She worked for several businesses throughout the Newcastle region, gaining experience in various areas of office administration. During this time she often helped Bob and Kay with the business part-time until 1997, when she joined the company full-time as the office/business manager. Her passion is marketing. She enjoys giving our clients what they want, and loves to exceed their expectations, giving them the holiday of their dreams.
She travels to USA each year with Bob on his promotional tours and run the day to day business of the company from our home in Newcastle with the assistance of secretaries Paula McLennan and Sharon Brown.
Between them, they manage to run the office 90% of the time (when Bob and Kay are either in the field guiding, or on promotional tours). They liaise with the clients and staff, and organise hunting throughout Australia, New Zealand and New Caledonia. Organising the hunts, getting all of the various gun permits, making trophy shipping tags for each clients trophies and ensuring that all of the booking information is distributed to all of the guides in all of our camps, can sometimes be a challenge. However, we always manage to get these things done in a timely manner.
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