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Coping with Exam Stress: Advice from a Previous Exercise in Trial and Error
I will admit straight up that I was slightly neurotic about ATARs and aimed significantly higher than I needed to based on my first preference. I got into my preferred degree very comfortably and could...
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Straight outta High School: Everything you need to know about lowering the...
Why should we lower the voting age? Mr Shorten claims that lowering the voting age would help combat the “apathy and cynicism” of young people towards politics. While we wholeheartedly disagree that...
View ArticleThe uncomfortable truths facing us Indigenous young people today
If I told you that we are much less likely than non-Indigenous Australians to complete Year 11 and 12 would that shock you? How about if I said that we’re falling behind in maths, technology, science...
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Jobs of the future will be different: the Enterprise Skills you’ll need to...
When we say it’s going to look different, what does that actually mean? It means lots of things, but basically, everything’s going to be way more automated and a lot more flexible (or unstable,...
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Why this new $5 computer is incredibly important
This is the Raspberry Pi Zero. Despite only being 6 and a half centimeters long, it’s a fully functional computer. Complete with USB ports, HDMI output and half a gig of ram. Which doesn’t sound like...
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The Seven Stages of Waiting for Your Year 12 Results
Walking out of your last exam “Come at me life, I just finished year 12” Realising you still have ages to wait until scores actually come out “I have to wait HOW LONG?!” The night before scores...
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Our Top 5 Tips For Starting A Social Enterprise
A social enterprise is kind of like a non-profit or charity, but with one key difference. Rather than collecting money from sponsors and donations, a social enterprise takes the same approach to making...
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How I Survived My First Day As An Intern
I don’t know about you, but I still have this vague preconception that offices are filled with over the top formality, scary superiors, tiny cubicles and Mad-Men style white walls. This image quickly...
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Didn’t Get The Uni / TAFE Offer You’re After? Don’t Panic!
First round offers are just the first step in long process that all Universities and Tertiary institutions go through to sort out who can complete their courses. There are so many other options to get...
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Ten things to expect in your first week at a new job
Being on time is preferable to being too early, especially on your first day Being on time is great, but being too early on your first day is annoying for the people who are giving up their time to...
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Sydney University Crunches The Numbers, Makes Maths Compulsory For A Ton Of...
If maths isn’t your thing, and you were hoping to coast into Sydney Uni without mastering your derivatives and memorizing that pesky quadratic equation, you’re in strife (although not really until 2019...
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The 10 Best Questions To Ask At A Job Interview
Ok. You know the bit at the end of the job interview where the interviewers ask if you have any questions and your heart races a little and that awkward bit of silence happens before you’re like “ah...
View ArticleReasons You Should Give Engineering A Second Thought (I’m Talking To You,...
So, what do people think engineers do? What kind of people become engineers? There’s many branches of engineering. Speak to a few engineers and you might be surprised by the diversity in responses. One...
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How Volunteering Can Help You Get A Job
As a recruiter, those are the three things I look for in a potential candidate: Does this person want to work here for the right reasons? I don’t just want somebody who is looking for a job – I want...
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The Demand For Enterprise Skills Is On The Rise | The New Basics Report
Today we turn our attention to the demand from industry and have released our latest report in this series, The New Basics: Big data reveals the skills young people need for the New Work Order. The New...
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Here Are The Skills You Will Need To Succeed And Earn Big Buckaroos
The great news is, you probably already have a lot of them, you just might not realise it. The report, titled New Basics, is the latest in our New Work Order series that looks at the critical skills we...
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Huge Cash Is Up For Grabs For You To Change The World
Crowdfunding platforms have helped launch hundreds of innovations from young entrepreneurs – allowing them to get the start-up capital funds and turn their idea into action. Platforms such as Pozible,...
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How Our Education System Is Letting Indigenous Australians Down
In recent International testing by PISA when it comes to problem solving, Indigenous students were more likely to be low performers, with 62% of Indigenous students recording low proficiency. On...
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5 Things You Need To Know Before Accepting A Cash-In-Hand Job
Whatever your reasons, here are five things you need to know before you decide to accept a cash-in-hand job: 1. There’s a massive difference between being paid in cash, and being paid “cash-in-hand.”...
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Everything You Need to Know About Last Night’s Budget
Some would argue that the first two listed are significantly more thrilling than the third, but, dear friends, I beg to differ. This Federal Budget has some pretty real implications for young people so...
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