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7 Questions to Ask Your Future Employer And Yourself Before Accepting Your First Job Offer.
Landing your first ‘real’ job is awfully exciting. That job you’ve been working so hard for, the one where you can apply all that knowledge and information you’ve studied so hard for during your uni years. It’s a real adulting level-up moment.
Amidst all this excitement, don’t get overwhelmed by the need to please or impress your prospective employer and neglect your own needs.
Read our latest blog post by CMO Shinyi Chin detailing questions to ask your prospective employer, and yourself, before accepting that first job.
What I have learnt about starting a new business (CampusLife) in 2022
The global pandemic created many challenges when it comes to business, so why not throw another spanner in the works by starting a new one! Hear from our CEO and Founder Andrew Ford as he discusses the good, bad and ugly things he has encountered on his startup journey.
How to create a Wordpress blog
Did you ever needed to create a blog for a uni assignment? Not sure where to start? Here is a quick how-to video on creating a Wordpress blog. Filmed for RMIT University's Digital Marketing course, but applicable for the general audience too!
ACE-ing uni: How to conquer back-to-uni anxiety
After more than a year of online learning, face-to-face has become a hard reality for some second and final year students. Returning back to campus is an adjustment in itself. In this blog post, Grace Pehar puts forth some solid advice on how to conquer your back-to-uni anxieties, plus the coping mechanisms to help give yourself the best attitude towards starting university in 2022.
Do university students need a resume to get a job? Or is LinkedIn or something else more important?
Once upon a time, the resume was the king of job search. Resume or Curriculum Viète (CV), those few pages of text were the difference between landing your dream job or returning to the queue of job wannabees. But times have changed. Digital has overtaken paper. So the question is, do you even need a resume these days or can we just rely on LinkedIn and other digital media? Andrew Ford explores this topic.
How university students and young graduates can invigorate your company: The benefits of hiring young people
Young graduates and university students are often overlooked by hiring managers. Shinyi Chin discusses her top 3 benefits of why you should give university students and fresh graduates a chance the next time you’re thinking about hiring.
My 'Why' for starting CampusLife
CampusLife is more than a social media app for students to find friends when arriving from overseas. More than an app to gain useful and fair paying employment. More than a way to learn about services in their local community. It is all those things, but the essence is to help lift the belief of all students that they can be more. That they can reach their full potential with an intervention by us if they have no one else. In this blog post, Andrew Ford tells us the story behind why he started CampusLife.