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Getting A Mentor Is A Ripper Career Move. Here’s 6 Ways To Do It.
Our relationship has all the things great ones are made of. Two way communication. Honesty. Trust. Respect. A mutual appreciation for photos of dogs acting like humans. I have indeed hit the jackpot....
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How I Learned High School Grades Don’t Determine Your Whole Life
While we’re in high school we all come across common myths surrounding careers and our futures, and it can really do your head in! Teachers, parents, siblings and friends all tell you different things....
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Work And Education Are Changing Fast. Here Are 3 Things You Can Do To Avoid...
I mean, if you’d told my teenage self that I’d be able to order take out through my phone and have a stranger go pick it up and drop it off at my doorstep WITHOUT EVER HAVING TO TALK TO ANOTHER HUMAN,...
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Is A Robot Going To Steal My Job?
The program Future Proof did a deep dive on the prediction that more than five million Australian jobs will disappear in the next 15 years. You can watch the episode here. Didn’t catch it? Don’t...
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How To Ensure Your Career Has A Serious Social Impact
In our lifetime, we’re going to be spending a lot of our time at work. Just being super inspired at work. You may be thinking about how you can make this time matter, and considering jobs where you can...
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Why Life After School Isn’t What You Expect
High school wasn’t all that bad. Some of my favourite memories involved playing soccer at lunchtimes, learning about plays like Death of a Salesman in class and getting involved in extra stuff like...
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5 Questions To Ask Yourself Before Starting Your Job Hunt
Regardless of if you’ve just wrapped up uni, put a bow on high school or just feel like it’s your time to check out what this elusive “job market” is all about, here are a few things to consider before...
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HSC Set To Include Interest Rates, Loan Repayments, Savings Plans And More!
Remember sitting maths class trying to determine the volume of a weird looking cube thinking “when the Orlando Bloomin’ heck am I going to use this in real life?” Wonder no more! The only equation...
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What Even Is the Digital Economy and Why Does It Need Women?
When I hear the words ‘DIGITAL ECONOMY’ I automatically think of the very very large number of online platforms available for us to use for business developments, collaboration, networking, task...
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Stop Asking Me What I Want To Be When I Grow Up!
‘What do you want to be when you grow up?’ The question comes long before they’re expected to graduate with a well-formed game plan for the rest of their lives. Potentially they’ve only been shown a...
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If You’re Young and Work In Hospitality, You Need To Read This.
Pay Say it loud for the people in the back… “UNDERPAYMENT” IS THEFT. Whether your boss is shaving a few dollars off your base rate, your penalty rates go “missing”, or your boss has creative “rules”...
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Employers Want Digital Skills. Here’s How To Get Them.
Whether it’s short or long term employment you’re looking for, there are always ways to boost your resume and give that extra sparkle that will make your future employer stop and say – “Holy...
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What The Blazes Should I Study So I Can Get A Job In The Future?
There’s been quite a bit of chat of late about what the future of work will look like and which jobs will be around. So here at FYA we decided to cut to the chase so young people like you can prep for...
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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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Advice I Wish I Could Give My Younger Self About Networking
Sometimes it’s at formal networking events, or while you’re interning or volunteering. Sometimes it’s while you’re working in a cafe meeting customers in jobs you might eventually want to have, and...
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How To Smash It At A Networking Event As A Nervous Newbie
If you’re anything like me, when you hear the words “networking event” you can start sweating like Shaq at the foul line. The fact is networking has a lot of negative connotations for me and many...
View ArticleQuiz: Can We Guess Your Ideal Job Cluster Based On Your Life Choices?
You see, there’s been quite a bit of chat of late about what the future of work is going to look like and which jobs will be around. To get a better idea of what kinds of options there are, FYA (that...
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New Year, No School. Now What?
The new year invites friends and family to ask every young person’s favourite question – “so, what are you going to do now?” The truth is, there’s more out there than university or graduate jobs and it...
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9 Ways To Be The Absolute Worst Freelancer
Turns out, it’s only going to happen more as the new world of work will mean most of our future jobs will be invented by us. It sounds super fun, and often it is, but in my experience having done quite...
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What You Study Doesn’t Define Your Career. Here’s Why.
If that seems like it might be further study, well now you’ve got even more decisions – where are you going to go uni? What are you going to study? What subjects will you take? For some lucky ducks...
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