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How To Nail The Key Selection Criteria In Your Job Application
Firstly, how do you say you’ve collaborated with internal and external stakeholders and make it sound like something the hiring manager actually wants to read? And secondly, can’t we just talk about...
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Why Aren’t There More Women In Tech?
STEM industries (that is Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths) are expanding so rapidly, to the extent where 75% of future jobs will involve varying degrees of STEM skills and capabilities. The...
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How Joining LinkedIn Made Me Feel Terrible About My Accomplishments
It was at some point in the university holidays where my level of boredom had reached a point where creating a LinkedIn profile seemed an exciting prospect. Before then, I dibbled and dabbled in this...
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Robots Are Becoming Our Colleagues And We Should Realise How Great This Is
You’ve probably heard it more than a few billion times: technology is moving at such a rapid rate that these robo-foes will soon be snatching jobs from every industry, although some more than others....
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This Website Could Tell You Which Career Path To Take
I have no idea what I want to do with my career, and I feel like I’m not the only one. Paddle is basically a careers counsellor for today’s young people. It learns about you, figures out which aspects...
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What If We Don’t Have One True Calling?
So what do you actually want to be when you grow up? Maybe you already have your answer. Kudos to you! But for me, and perhaps many of you too, this question still causes some serious anxiety. It’s the...
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How To Quit: A Beginner’s Guide To Saying Goodbye With Grace
There’s heaps of info out there on how to actually get a job, but checking out of your first “real” job can seem daunting and totally foreign. Didn’t it take blood, sweat and tears, to get you hired in...
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What It’s Like To Be On A Board As A Young Person
But what does being on a board actually involve, and how do you get on one in the first place? The kind of board we’re talking about (nope, not a long plank of wood) is something that most charities,...
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Let’s Talk About Planning Your Life At 16
24 hours. That’s how many hours there are in a day, right? Wrong. Minus the recommended 8 hours of sleep, 7 hours of school, 2 hours of sport, 1 hour of music practice, 2 hours of homework, and 1 hour...
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We Need To Talk About The University Budget Cuts
The announcement comes ahead of next Tuesday’s federal budget. The changes will see the threshold for paying back HECS reduced so students will be forced to start paying their debt back when they earn...
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How’d You Get The Job: Sam Danby, Digital Coordinator
First up is the man behind the memes and arguably Shia LaBeouf’s biggest cheerleader, Sam Danby — FYA’s Digital Coordinator. Just a guy thinkin’ about the internet. What’s your title, what does it mean...
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Here’s What 3 Professionals Learnt By Failing In Their Careers
It represents everything we don’t want to be — whether in our personal lives or professional careers, failure is generally something that most people think of with a fair amount of disdain. Plus it...
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How’d You Get The Job: Annie Buckeridge, $20 Boss Program Manager
At FYA we love talking about jobs, careers and the skills you need to get from one job to another. We know that a young person today is likely to have 17 jobs across 5 different industries. It’s no...
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How’d You Get The Job: Molly Whelan, General Manager of Programs & Events
At FYA we love talking about jobs, careers and the skills you need to get from one job to another. We know that a young person today is likely to have 17 jobs across 5 different industries. It’s no...
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We Crunched The Numbers To Find Out What Work Will Look Like In 2030
People have been pretty obsessed about which jobs will disappear and which new jobs will be created. It’s something we spend a lot of time thinking about here at FYA. You see, we’ve just released a new...
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Here’s what a career in public relations looks like, 22 years apart. We spoke to people in the same field but a generation apart about what the job was like when they started. The post The PR...
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How’d You Get The Job: Dhakshy Sooriyakumaran, YLab Director
At FYA we love talking about jobs, careers and the skills you need to get from one job to another. We know that a young person today is likely to have 17 jobs across 5 different industries. It’s no...
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How’d You Get The Job: Caroline Farrer, Director of Innovation
At FYA we love talking about jobs, careers and the skills you need to get from one job to another. We know that a young person today is likely to have 17 jobs across 5 different industries. It’s no...
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How To Get An Internship & Use It To Build Your Career
Why should you get one? A lot of entry level jobs no longer exist, or are so incredibly competitive that it’s hard to get a foot in the door without having already made a start elsewhere. A young...
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How’d You Get The Job: Jade Jones-Cubillo, IMPACT Program Coordinator
At FYA we love talking about jobs, careers and the skills you need to get from one job to another. We know that a young person today is likely to have 17 jobs across 5 different industries. It’s no...
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