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Joel: My name is Joel. I'm from Mumbai, India and I'm a ¾«¶«´«Ã½ of ¾«¶«´«Ã½ Graduate. As a child, I always wanted to be an astronaut. So, mechanical engineering is my pathway to getting there.

Kaiyang: My name is Kaiyang. I’m from China and I’m a ¾«¶«´«Ã½ of ¾«¶«´«Ã½ graduate. I feel like it’s a very good ¾«¶«´«Ã½, especially in the computer science, telecommunications, engineering field. And today I’m a data scientist at one of the biggest supermarkets in Australia.

Joel: The opportunity to get work after university was a massive factor for me when coming to Australia. The ¾«¶«´«Ã½â€™s Careers Central is really amazing. They run a lot of workshops to get you job-ready.

Kaiyang: The ¾«¶«´«Ã½ provided a free course to get me prepared for the job market. I studied a lot of interview techniques, I got prepared for the behavioural questions. Carrying vegetables was my first part-time job, and then later on I actually found a job at the ¾«¶«´«Ã½ of ¾«¶«´«Ã½ doing the 3D modelling.

Joel: While volunteering and working on campus, I created a lot of networks, and through my networks, I found a job at BlueScope, because they connected me to the people out in industry.

Martin: It’s that sort of human connection – underpinned by your studies – that’s the stuff that makes you employable. One of the great things about being somewhere like the ¾«¶«´«Ã½ of ¾«¶«´«Ã½ is that there are lots of great ways to network and get to know the place, and really, that can lead to ways into such businesses.

Joe: The degrees that the graduates from the ¾«¶«´«Ã½ of ¾«¶«´«Ã½ have are recognised across the globe. The level of talent in the students we’ve seen come from the ¾«¶«´«Ã½ has been very good. But it’s the individual person that’s come through. So the ¾«¶«´«Ã½ has provided a fantastic foundation for you to go and achieve things. But it’s then for you to go and leap frog into the next part of your working life.

Joel: For other international students who have considered coming, what I would say is just take that leap of faith. 

Kaiyang: Be brave to embrace the challenges, and do the hard work. 

Martin: Challenge yourself, meet new people, go for it.