AS CRITERIA FOR LIVABILITY BECOMES MORE INTELLIGENT, IT’S MAX MASON’S BELIEF THAT ADELAIDE WILL KEEP ON CLIMBING THE RANKINGS OF THE WORLD’S MOST LIVABLE CITIES.
We live in a remarkable City which through a number of factors can’t be easily damaged by development (size, traffic, green-spaces, wineries, beaches, transportation, produce, quality of life). As a result, Adelaide will continue to attract an ever-greater number of executive positions; of thought-leaders and those who demand that their quality of life needs to match their salary.
His valuable work through Maximise Relocation Concierge is to ensure that incoming talent is welcomed, that they find the right neighbourhoods, schools, cleaners… everything right down to the right local bakery or even the right cultural avenues for them to discuss donorship and inclusion within our exciting cultural landscape.
The work is split into three “Chapters” – First up is a comprehensive interview process, where your profile is built – Do you require schools, nannys, sports facilities close at hand? What neighbourhood would suit you and how do we go about placing children where they are best served? Second chapter is on arrival to ensure the move itself is as smooth a transition as possible. The final chapter is the most enjoyable one, where we introduce you to the State’s brightest people at our best restaurants and through our unbeatable hospitality. It’s where the State really starts to shine and when experience shows that most clients finally fall deeply in love with their new home.
Max admits that the most important part of the work is often not with the bread-winner, but more commonly with the partner and children. “If the family are happy, then the move generally lasts. If they’re not then an average $300,000 company investment (for an interstate executive move) goes south pretty quickly, as the family make demands to move back to their previous home.’
He set up the concept after arriving in South Australia in 2013 and being shown around the State by someone who understood the brief, showing him places which guaranteed he would fall irrevocably in love with the landscape, the produce, the artisans, restaurateurs, winemakers and lead industry figures.
We have all experienced that Adelaide is the most amazing place to experience if you have someone who holds the right keys to the right doors and have seen too many people of great talent moving to Adelaide only to find them fall silent before disappearing “Home”, as they don’t find it to be as welcoming as they had hoped, or been promised. “The majority of executive moves to South Australia aren’t executed with enough style, and up to 40% of them result in failure. That’s a huge economic impact that’s easily reduced by simply ensuring our welcome is a warm and embracing one”. Nobody else is delivering this service and it’s a vital one for South Australia – In a bigger city it’s less critical to hold someone’s hand on arrival, but Adelaide holds her cards pretty close to her chest for outsiders – a reputation that wrongly endures across Australia.
An integral part of the work is to ensure that incoming talent has what Max calls ‘tendrils’ wrapped around them, through introductions to the lead industry figures across the State’s diverse industrial landscape, ensuring new arrivals feel a part of something here. Chances are, if you’re in this book, Max will want to be introducing you to someone over the coming months and years or will be able to help to successfully settle anyone you know who’s considering making the move to SA.
“An ever-growing community of like-minds is the surest way to achieve potential for Adelaide and wider South Australia – by 2030, we’ll be enjoying the result of a brilliantly connected global community of talent all enjoying the quality of life that South Australia allows; it’s an enviable and readily achievable vision that Maximise Relocation Concierge is bringing to reality one client at a time”.
