My Brilliant Career: Find your passion and make a plan
Joe Hamman is the founder and director of Novus Group, which provides media monitoring and analysis
How did you end up working in the media monitoring industry?
It started with my fascination for the stock exchange — I always wanted to be a stockbroker. One of my first jobs was at a company that provided news and market data to stockbrokers. In providing these news services, I discovered the world of media monitoring — where big corporate companies (such as banks, audit firms, legal firms and government entities) want to know what the media is reporting on them, and what their competitors are up to. After working in the media monitoring industry for about nine years I decided it was time to start my own business as I was not happy with the state of the products being offered to clients, and I thought we could do better. I started Novus Group in 2014. Today we have more than 700 customers and we employ close to 100 people...
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