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Pride Week: 5 alumni championing diversity and inclusion
From 26-30 October, we’re celebrating Pride Week here at UTS. To celebrate, we’re taking a look at the proud members of the LGBTIQA+ community who have graduated from UTS and gone on to do amazing things with their careers.The queer community at UTS is a vibrant and...
Honing skills for career longevity
Once upon a time the average person honed very specific skills for their career, applied to a single company, was given gainful employment for decades, and then retired with a pension from that same employer. Nowadays, the average amount of time someone spends at a...
Moving with the times
If someone had said to me at the start of this year that I would move back to my home town, work from home full-time, start singing lessons and lose 7 kilos then I would have never believed them! Yet here I am in October having done all of these things and more.One...
Improving your career one TikTok at a time
Since March we’ve all spent a lot more time at home, leading to lots of baking misadventures, skyrocketing screen time, and hours of online shopping. Since then, TikTok — one of the new kids on the block — captured our attention with its addictive dance, lipsync, and...
2020 Student Forum: creating a sense of belonging in an online world
How do you create a sense of belonging in an online world? Rather than come up with ways to help students feel like they belong, we asked students to use design thinking principles to come up with innovative solutions at our annual Student Council Liaison Group’s...
5 ways to make your workplace more LGBTIQA+ inclusive
Look, 2020 has been wild and while many of us having been working from home and finding ourselves with a little more time on our hands there’s one thing we don’t have time for: discrimination. It’s old news (and illegal!) so let’s help our workplaces up their game a...
The importance of “Tuning In” at work
There’s no denying mental health has taken a hit during the COVID-19 pandemic, with feelings of stress, anxiety, and isolation dramatically increasing. Many workplaces have faced tumult over the last few months, with the transition to working from home, increased...
How to keep a healthy lifestyle despite a busy schedule
Do you ever plan for downtime during your week? If you're a typical student, with a full-time class schedule, a part-time job, a social life, and a couple of hobbies, you may be finding yourself in quite a pickle. Unfortunately, the day only lasts 24 hours. And the...
Survive working from home in a share house
Working from home can bring out the best and worst out of us, and if you’re living in a share house while working from home, it can bring out the good, the bad, and the ugly. 70% of people living in share houses are aged 18-35, so it’s likely many uni students are...
How to overcome an instant gratification bias
Patience isn’t my strong suit. It never has been.As an 8 year-old bee in a bottle with big dreams and no time to waste, I thought ‘taking my company public’ meant pulling my lemonade stand from the backyard out to the street.After a short and sour taste of reality...
4 Simple Ways to Advance Your Career
Whether you are looking for an entirely new career or you simply want to move up the ladder in your current company, career advancement can be a challenge. Particularly during the pandemic, finding the motivation to job search or put in extra time at work can be...
Make a difference: be a mentor
There are a tonne of benefits to finding a career mentor - we’re talkin’ building your network, identifying career goals, and having someone in your corner to help encourage you. But what’s in it for the mentor? Turns out… a lot!For some, the benefit of being a mentor...
Top tips to enhance your employment opportunities in NSW public schools
Whether you’re in the early stages of your initial teacher education program or nearing the end, you might be wondering about your future career prospects once you graduate. While it’s true that certain high-demand subject areas may offer higher employment prospects...
Where are they now? Life as a Top100 finalist
As the deadline for GradConnection Top100 applications quickly approaches, we wanted to introduce you to two of UTS’ past Top100 finalists to hear about their experiences with the Future Leaders competition, how it has benefited their careers, and what advice they...
The anatomy of procrastination: what does the latest science say?
Procrastination, that old beast. Why do we avoid or delay tasks, despite being fully aware of the negative consequences?In an academic setting, procrastination is a particularly prevalent behavior, and it's most often attributed to poor time management skills or,...
There’s no escaping video interviews now
Before the global pandemic, video interviews were something you had heard about from a friend, or perhaps done one yourself, but they probably seemed like a foreign concept. What’s the point of doing a video interview when you can just go to their office and meet in...
What does COVID-19 mean for graduates wanting to head into the world of digital marketing?
There’s no denying that 2020 will definitely go down in the history books. It’s thrown so much disruption and change into our lives. The way we used to go about our day-to-day may never be the same. In some respects, this might be a good thing – we’ve had time to...
How to decide between finding a job and starting your own business
If you’re at the tail end of your degree, you might be wondering whether it’s time to start finding a full-time job or whether you should start mapping out the great business idea you’ve had for years. Of course, there’s no one size fits all solution for everyone....
14 funny tweets that sum up suddenly having to wfh
You may be among the vast population of people around the world who were catapulted into working from home earlier this year. A world of video conferencing, Teams chats or remote learning. I am still grappling with the fact that I haven’t sat through my daily commute...
How to make learning a new skill a part of your daily routine
It is safe to say we all have aspirations to learn new skills. We want to progress in our careers, learn new languages, be healthier, or be a better person. Establishing new skills is the pathway to expanding yourself as a person and as a professional. Actually...
4 strategies I used to manage my health crisis so I could continue working
2020 has been a bumpy ride for all of us. This pandemic has presented a web of complex challenges causing disruptions to key facets of our lives – from home, study and work-life, to travel, social and wellness activities, it’s been a crazy rollercoaster. Or some sort...
Tips for working alongside tough coworkers
We’ve all been there. For a long time, we have given our best contributions and long, stressful work days to our employer. We have formed close connections with certain co-workers, and although some of our closest colleagues may move on to other organisations, we also...
How to find an IRL engineering mentor online
For many, the idea of finding a mentor may seem a bit daunting. How do you just find someone who’s willing to spend time talking you through your career aspirations? And isn’t that a kind of, well, awkward conversation to start having with a stranger? For UTS Civil...
WFH: Three ways I have maintained my sense of self
I am here typing this whilst sitting in my bed. I am surrounded by all my creature comforts – I have a warm blanket draped over my knees, a Spotify playlist humming in the background, and the light scent of lavender essential oil floating through the air. This is...