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Career Success: It’s All Down to Timing
Last week Caitlin Kunkel (@KunkelTron) posted a Twitter thread that populated the trending page for its fifteen minutes of fame. In it, she told the story of how she started her career at 22, looking at graduate schools for writing while she was teaching English in...
Key Ingredient in Maximising Your Productivity
Productivity in the workplace is extremely important. The quantity and quality of our contribution to the organisations we work for, the companies we run, and/or the clients we do business with, are two of the most important factors in establishing career success....
Julia Landauer: Don’t Let Expectations and Stereotypes Hold You Back
It can be easy to fall into a career that everyone expects you to follow, but that doesn’t necessarily make for a fulfilling work life. Opportunity and passion can come from the most unexpected places, and while the pursuit may be difficult, following what makes you...
How Mentorship Can Fuel Your Career Journey
Career journeys: we’ve all heard about our career journeys or pathways, but the reality is we don’t normally realise when we’re actually on one until we spend the time thinking back on how we got to where we are. For me, I’ve come to realise that I wouldn’t be where I...
Stan Lee: How Hard Work and Passion Can Make You a Cultural Icon
Renowned for the contributions he made to the world of comics and his many cameos in the popular Marvel movie franchises in his later years of life, Stan Lee’s passing last week left many around the world reeling.The early daysBorn in December 1922 as Stan Lieber, he...
UX and Your Online Presence: 3 Strategies for Digital Success
User experience (UX) is a multidisciplinary concept that often refers to web, but more expansively can refer to any human focused strategy that shapes pleasurable journeys between product and user.Consider yourself as your main product and your industry as your user....
The Where’s Wally Career Map You Never Knew You Needed
Wally finds himself lost all over the world. His whole life is centred around his passion for travel and adventure, and seeking extremely crowded places to explore (crowded beaches, airports, ski slopes, towns, railway stations, and safari parks… just to name a few!)....
3 Tips to Have Better Branding than a Knock-off Halloween Costume
Look, you’ve probably heard it all before: ‘Personal branding is so important! Set up your LinkedIn profile! Know your strengths!’, and I get it – it can be a lot. The worst part though? It’s all true. If you don’t take the time to really sit down and reflect on how...
Are Employers Really Going to Say Yes to Someone Who is a Self-identified Entrepreneur?
The data shows that 40% of students at UTS want to be their own boss at some point. In the UTS landscape, we are hearing about startups, opportunities to learn entrepreneurship, places where your startup can be fostered and grow – what benefit is there to industry if...
Why the Phrase ‘It’s Who You Know’ is Vital for International Students
‘It’s who you know’, that’s what they say, right? This is particularly true for international students, who can gain a lot from networking with international student graduates who now work in Australia.That's why events like the upcoming It's Who You Know |...
6 Career Lessons Learned from My ‘Lame’ Part-Time Jobs
What do dogs, CDs, and Christmas elves all have in common? You’re right! They are all a form of nostalgic entertainment! For me, however, these words bring up specific memories of my interesting history of part-time jobs.Although you will no longer find ‘Dog Walker’,...
How to Decide if You’re Qualified Enough to Submit a Job Application
You’re scanning LinkedIn, Seek, CareerHub and find your dream job.But wait—they’re looking for someone with 1-3 years’ experience, and there are a few other bullet points in the job description that you’ve never done before. You don’t tick all the boxes. Should you...
What are the Benefits of Interning with a Startup?
By UTS Innovation & Entrepreneurship UnitStudying at university isn’t just about the knowledge you learn in the classroom and making sure you graduate with that valuable piece of paper, it’s also about making sure you’re learning the essential skills for the...
Career Lessons Learned from Crazy Rich Asians
Crazy Rich Asians has become a cultural phenomenon and I for one am jumping aboard this Crazy Rich Asian hype train. For a rom-com, this movie had a surprising amount of takeaway messages. As a ’Crazy non-rich Asian’ myself, I feel like I am 66.6% qualified to...
Is The Future of Work Full-time?
Yes? Carry on then. Nothing to read here. No? Okay, so what? I have no idea. So let’s set people up on how to deal with the ambiguity. It’s a hot topic that makes the rounds. Most articles talk about robots and technology automating a number of...
Back to the Future of Work: Myth-busting Entrepreneurship
Resilience, courage and focus were some of the skills marked for entrepreneurial success by innovative founders, students and teachers at the UTS Postgraduate Expo. “See failures as a learning experience, and have the resilience to keep going after what some people...
5 Tips for University Students to Help Kick-start Your Career in Digital Marketing
Having been born a first-generation Australian with immigrant parents who value good education, I was always pushed to perform the best academically. Against their will for me to study Medicine or Law, I’m currently completing my double bachelor’s degree in Business...
Do You Hate Your Degree? Don’t Worry, You DO Have a Career Ahead of You
Towards the end of my chemistry degree, I got a bit sad. I didn’t think anyone would ever employ me, and I felt like I had no options. I hadn’t done particularly well during my degree, and I didn’t like my degree either. I felt like a future career was a hopeless...
How to Get a Job with Basically No Experience
It’s a time old problem: you need experience to get a job, but you need a job so you can get experience in the first place. And there seems no end to the ridiculous amount of previous work experience employers expect for roles that, in themselves, offer on-the-ground...
How to Make Your Workspace Work for You
Whether you work (or study) from home, or have an assigned desk at work, it’s important to make your workspace your own. Personalising your space can increase productivity, and help prompt ideas during brainstorming sessions – so really, there’s no excuse not to! Here...
Do You Have Career Envy?
It’s that uncomfortable feeling of desiring something that someone else has; a resentful longing, an emotion that we associate with a destructive green-eyed monster. It’s something we’ve learned we shouldn’t admit to. But envy is something we have all felt, and it has...
Startup Your Career: How to Make a Startup Experience Work to Your Advantage
Participating in a startup appears to be the complete opposite of working for a large corporation - but is it? Let’s look at how your experience in a startup can literally start your career. Here are the top 5 startup skills you need to leverage at your next...
Put the ‘Care’ Back in Career in Time for R U OK? Day
R U OK? Day is this Thursday (13 September), and with it comes the reminder that, hey, you need to take care of your mental health – and pay attention to the people in your life when they may be struggling. Your career can be a big stressor, and when times get tough...
5 Resume Tips You Didn’t Know You Needed (Just Like China’s New Flavours of Oreo)
Okay so if you’ve heard about the new flavours of Oreo, then it may be hard to define them as something you would ‘need’ per se. But still, they’re interesting and not what you would probably expect. At the end of August, Oreo announced new flavours being released in...