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Top Ten Tips for Mastering Your Elevator Pitch
An elevator pitch is a short (usually a minute or less) speech that draws people in and tells them about your work, your goals, and your interests. An elevator pitch is vital if you’re attending any sort of networking or industry event, but it is good to have one...
So Many Pies, So Little Time: How to Cope as the ‘Go-To’ Person in Your Organisation
I remember when I was in high school all of my friends would call me an ‘old soul’. Someone they could talk to when things got tough. Someone they trusted for advice when they couldn’t make a decision. And someone who mysteriously knew where to look to find the most...
Starting Uni? Set Yourself Up For Success!
Starting university can be a scary prospect. Thankfully, Orientation exists. UTS Orientation helps you prepare for uni through a variety of events, workshops and tours. It can also help get you out of that post-HSC, post-high school haze that settles in after your...
Career Profiling: the Basics, the Bizarre and the Bleeding Obvious
There are a number of theories on how and why we like and choose different professions. These choices could stem from many things, including being in the right place at the right time, having connections, what we’ve studied, or even following on a family business....
3 Tips to Get You Interview-Ready This New Year
The New Year is a popular time for people to start making changes in their lives, and a change of career (or career status) is a popular choice. This is similar for employers as well – a lot of companies use the New Year as a time to take stock and start looking at...
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But What Do [insert job title] Actually Do?!
You might be sitting there with no idea what job you want to do, or you might be trying to choose between 2 different career paths. Wherever you are up to, asking questions like those below will definitely help you to find out what a job is really like, or what you...
Failing Your New Year’s Resolutions? You CAN Get Back on Track
So if you’re anything like 92% of the population, chances are you’ve already failed at your New Year’s resolutions. Which is a pretty depressing thought – just over 2 weeks in, and things have already gone downhill. So what made you give up, and how do you get back on...
Can You Land a Job When You Have No Experience?
At UTS:Careers Drop-In, a very common question to be asked is “How can I get a job when I have no experience?” Students often bring in their resume with their objective and education, and say that they have no experience but really need a job. If you are concerned...
Redefining Success: 20 Habits That Could Change Your Life
When we talk about success, it’s easy to simply think of succeeding in one area of your life. Maybe success to you is achieving financial stability, becoming the best in your field, or living in a certain area. But maybe it’s time to start taking a wider view of...
A Story About Resilience and Adaptability from a Former International Student
Picture the scene: gravel road, bus with floors you can see through to the road, passing corrugated rooves on shack-like houses with views of hills, and passing by a river every now and then. This was my journey every day to high school. Since I lived in a valley,...
Some 2017 Career-Inspo
It’s now officially January 2017, and life can go on again. Did you survive your New Year’s Eve? Are your ready to get stuck back in to thinking about your career? Alright, after 2016 it’s understandable if you feel a little worse for wear. Chances are, the thought of...
How to Manage Stress in the Workplace
Article originally posted on HIF Healthy Lifestyle Blog Let’s face it, we all feel stress at work. And if you don’t, you’re probably too busy to notice it! If nothing else, it might be reassuring to know that you’re not alone. According to research published by...
Start 2017 the Right Way: New Year’s Resolutions
Starting a new year is always a daunting prospect (although after 2016, many people might be happy for a bit of a change). Regardless, the start of a new year is usually when we start making some big plans. Whether it’s to go traveling, actually save money, or learn a...
Surviving Work as an Introvert
If you have ever attended a career-related workshop or session, you will be told to network and make yourself stand out from the crowd. If you’re an introvert like me, just the thought of doing these things causes anxiety. It seems like the working world is more...
Start Planning Today: How Proactive People Stay On Top
With 2017 literally days away, it may be time to start thinking about your career. Now before you freak out, you don’t have to do anything huge! Even watching a few videos, reading some articles, or chatting with people in your network can help inspire you to begin...
The Survivor’s Guide to Assessment Centres
If you’ve made it to this stage of the recruitment process, then you’ve written a great resume, completed a lengthy online application and possibly spoken to a real person for a phone interview. The assessment centre is usually the last and most gruelling test to...
Launching A Startup and Tackling Employability: A Chat with Rewardstudents’ Dana Achrafi
Being a parent of two, studying a Masters in Interactive Multimedia, and taking part in (what feels like) almost every extracurricular program available at UTS, may make most people feel more than a little stressed out, but this has been Dana Achrafi’s life for the...
How to Achieve a Great Work and Study Balance
Living the #unistudentlyf is an awkward phase between high school chills and adulting for real. Perhaps some of you have read Bernard Salt’s article where he stresses that millennials should stop eating #smashedavo toast for brunch if they want to afford a house in...
Dealing with Career Setbacks
We’ve all had to deal with setbacks at work. I can remember my first job as an eager employee at a bakery. I had turned up early for my first shift, excited and ready for the day. What unfolded was a series of embarrassing events which included (but were not limited...
Is Freelancing the Way of the Future?
The nine to five slog isn’t what it used to be. Across the world, more people are calling out for flexible work hours as new technologies are introduced, and working remotely becomes a more achievable reality. This means that we’re now seeing the expansive rise of the...
Know Where You Want to Go and DON’T Plan How to Get There
When I ask "If you could be doing anything at all in 5 years’ time, what would it be?” I usually get one of two common responses. Think about your own answer to this question for a moment – do you know answer straight away? If you do – good job! Only a few people come...
4 Common Types of Interview Questions and How to Answer Them
When you’re researching practice questions before an interview, you’ll often come across ‘general’, ‘behavioural ’, ‘motivation’, or ‘accomplishment’ questions. These terms divide common interview questions into distinct categories that, if you know how to use them,...
4 Essentials Every New Intern and Graduate Needs to Know
Article originally posted on LinkedIn Prepare yourself! It’s that time of the year again when the library is crowded, it’s still sunny at 5 pm, and there’s a queue at the nearest convenient store filled with students impatiently waiting for the go-to self-serve coffee...
The Confidence Gap
Some of our talented interns here at UTS Careers recently ran some focus groups so we could find out what students really think about the careers service, internships, CareerHub, the world of work and how prepared they feel to enter it. It didn’t come as much of a...