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Siyi Li

Curious about people, business, and what comes next.

理解人， 探索商业， 也始终好奇下一步。

FINANCE · RELATIONSHIPS · BUSINESS · TECHNOLOGY

Explore my journey ↓
02 ABOUT · THREE MOMENTS

Zhejiang born. Guangdong
raised. Shaped by Australia.

生于浙江，长于广东，
也被澳大利亚塑造。

ZHEJIANG where I began
→
GUANGDONG where I grew up
→
SYDNEY where I learned to begin again

I tend to worry before I leap.
I leap anyway.

我也会害怕。
但最后，我还是会选择往前走。

Maybe that’s what courage means to me. 也许，这就是我理解的勇敢。
03 / 03 · FINANCE

A thread I keep following.

一条我一直想继续追下去的线。

Behind people, businesses and major decisions, there is often a financial story. Understanding finance is another way of understanding how the world moves.

人与企业、选择与机会、个人生活与全球变化之间，往往都有一条金融的线。理解金融，也是我理解这个世界如何运转的一种方式。

Thought 001 continues later in the story ↓
Sydney · 2023

The First
Yes.

第一次
“Yes”。

RÉSUMÉ → DOOR → NO RÉSUMÉ → DOOR → NO RÉSUMÉ → DOOR → YES

When I first arrived in Australia, I had no local work experience. I wanted to improve my English, understand the workplace and become part of everyday life there. So I printed résumés and walked into businesses to ask for an opportunity. Some doors said no. Then one said yes. That first role, as a Barista, taught me far more than a job title could hold.

I went in looking for a job.
I came out with something more important — confidence that I could build a life in a place that was once unfamiliar.

刚到澳大利亚时，我没有当地工作经验。我想提高英语、了解当地职场，也真正融入日常生活。所以我把简历打印出来，一家一家走进去询问机会。有些门对我说了“不”，后来终于有一扇门说了“Yes”。那份咖啡师工作带给我的，远远不只是一个职位名称。

那时候，我只是想找到一份工作。
后来才发现，我得到的不只是一份工作，还有一种“我可以在陌生的地方重新开始”的底气。

03 JOURNEY

Every chapter left me with
something.

每一段经历，
都留下了一些东西。

Select a chapter to look closer.

01COURAGE Calypso Cafe & Juice Bar (Matraville) Barista · Sydney, Australia · Jun 2023 – Jan 2024 +

My first local role in Australia. It strengthened my communication, multitasking and adaptability — and taught me that confidence often comes after action, not before it.

我的第一份澳洲本地工作。它让我在真实环境中练习沟通、多任务处理和适应能力，也让我明白：很多时候，信心是在行动之后才慢慢长出来的。

02KNOWLEDGE Raffles Capital Finance Pty Ltd Financial Broker Assistant · Internship · Sydney, Australia · Aug 2023 – Mar 2024 +

Australian lending made finance real. I supported 10+ financing opportunities, coordinated information between clients, brokers and banks, and helped improve processing efficiency.

澳大利亚贷款业务让我第一次真正看到金融如何在现实中运转。我协助推进 10+ 个融资案例，并在客户、经纪人与银行之间协调资料与进度。

03CONNECTION RedRate Exchange Customer Service Coordinator · Sydney, Australia · May 2024 – Mar 2025 +

Working with international customers taught me to listen beyond the question, keep CRM records clear, follow up proactively and give customers clarity even when an answer was not immediate.

服务国际客户让我学会听懂“问题背后的问题”，通过 CRM 保持记录清晰、主动跟进，并在暂时没有最终答案时，也让客户知道事情正在如何推进。

04RESILIENCE JO Traikos Pty Ltd Sales Ambassador · Sydney, Australia · Sep 2024 – Mar 2025 +

Sales taught me to approach, listen, recommend, handle objections and try again. Personalised recommendations and cross-selling contributed to an approximately 10% increase in sales.

销售让我学会主动接触、倾听、推荐、处理异议，然后继续尝试。通过个性化推荐与交叉销售，我推动销售额提升约 10%。

COURAGE · KNOWLEDGE · CONNECTION · RESILIENCE
WHERE IT CAME TOGETHER

WESTPAC

Personal Banking Assistant · Sydney, Australia · Mar 2025 – May 2026

Customer service, financial knowledge, communication, sales awareness and resilience began working together on a larger professional platform.

客户服务、金融知识、沟通、销售意识与韧性，开始在更大的专业平台上真正汇合。

Customers ↓Needs ↓Referrals ↓Lending ↓Sales ↓Business COMMERCIAL CURIOSITY
······························→ NEXT

Sales · Business Development · Finance · Global Markets

The next chapter is still being
written.

下一章，
还在写。

Drawn to places where I can learn deeply, take on meaningful challenges, and grow into greater responsibility.

期待在真正的挑战中持续学习，也逐渐承担更大的责任。

Nothing was wasted.
04 EXPERIMENTS · EXPERIMENT 001
AI-assisted Job Search Workflow · 2026

I didn’t want AI to find me a job.
I wanted it to help me find the right ones.

我不想让 AI 替我找工作。
我想让它帮我更快找到真正值得看的机会。

THE BETTER QUESTION

How do I spend more time on the right jobs?

怎样把更多时间花在真正适合我的职位上？

More opportunities ≠ better decisions.

01LinkedIn Jobs
↓
02Open-source AI Agent
↓
03My Selection CriteriaCareer Direction · Experience Fit · Growth Potential · Skill Development · Role Requirements
↓
04Shortlist
↓
05ME

AI filters. I decide.

I adapted an open-source AI agent into my own job-search workflow.

我把一个开源 AI Agent 调整成了自己的求职筛选工作流。

Teaching an AI what to look for forced me to become clearer about what I was looking for myself.
当我开始教 AI “应该看什么”时，我也被迫更清楚地回答：我自己究竟在找什么？

001 More experiments will appear here as I keep learning. _

05 THOUGHTS

Things I’ve been thinking
about.

最近在想
些什么。

Ideas, changes and questions that caught my attention.

I don’t have all the answers. But I pay attention, ask questions, and form my own views.

我并没有所有答案。但我会留意变化、提出问题，也慢慢形成自己的看法。

THOUGHT 001 · FINANCE

Why Finance?

People → Decisions → Businesses → Markets → World

I used to think finance was mostly about numbers.

The more I studied it — and later experienced it through lending, foreign exchange and banking — the more I realised that the numbers are often just the surface. Behind them are people making decisions.

A family deciding whether it is the right time to buy a home. A traveller thinking about when to exchange currencies. A business deciding where to invest, how to grow, or what risk to take next.

Those individual decisions connect to something much bigger.

Interest rates influence borrowing. Exchange rates connect countries and trade. Capital helps businesses move from ideas to reality. Markets respond to millions of decisions being made at the same time.

That is what keeps finance interesting to me.

It sits somewhere between people and business, individual choices and global change.

And the more I learn about it, the more questions I seem to have.

How do financial decisions change when technology changes? How will people interact with banks in the future? What happens when AI becomes part of the way we understand risk, customers and markets?

I don’t know all of those answers yet.

But that is also why I want to keep learning.

Understanding finance is another way of understanding how the world moves.

以前的我，会觉得金融更多是在和数字打交道。

但随着学习逐渐深入，后来又真正接触贷款、外汇和银行业务，我开始发现，数字往往只是金融最表面的一层。

数字背后，其实是一个又一个人的选择。

一个家庭在考虑现在是不是买房的合适时机，一个旅行者在判断什么时候兑换货币，一家企业在决定把资金投向哪里、如何成长，以及下一步愿意承担怎样的风险。

而这些看似属于个人或企业的选择，又会慢慢连接到一个更大的世界。

利率影响人们如何借贷，汇率连接不同国家的贸易与生活，资本让一些想法真正成为生意，而市场则回应着无数人在同一时间做出的决定。

这也是金融一直吸引我的地方。

它连接着人与商业、个人选择与世界变化。

而且很有意思的是，了解得越多，我反而有了更多问题。

当科技不断改变我们的生活，金融决策会发生什么变化？未来的人们会怎样与银行打交道？当 AI 开始参与我们理解风险、客户和市场的方式，又会带来什么？

这些问题，我现在还没有全部的答案。

但也正因为如此，我还想继续了解下去。

理解金融，也是我理解这个世界如何运转的一种方式。

Questions I don’t have answers to yet.

  1. What will people value when AI can do more of the work?Still thinking...
  2. Can trust be scaled?Still thinking...
  3. What makes someone great at sales?Still thinking...
  4. When does growth become leadership?Still thinking...
  5. How much of business is really about understanding people?Still thinking...
  6. What will banking look like in ten years?Still thinking...

Still thinking. _

06 RÉSUMÉ

The short version.

One journey. Two languages.

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07 · CONTACT

Let’s talk about what’s next.

聊聊下一步。

people · business · technology · curiosity

Email ↗ LinkedIn ↗ Résumé ↗