Are you looking for a leg up in the increasingly competitive job market? UON Careers and Student Development can help you do just that – for free. That’s right – free! So forget about all the paid workshops on how to spruik your resume and create a winning cover letter, you can get all that …
How to bring enterprise and innovation to your degree
‘Enterprise’ and ‘innovation’ may have used to sound like corporate buzzwords, but I’m sure after this month’s ground-breaking Enterprise + Innovation 2018 you’re beginning to think a little bit differently. There seems to be a lingering misconception that enterprise and innovation apply just to business/engineering/science fields, but really their application is limitless. It’s all about …
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The fine (and frustrating) art of referencing
“Referencing is the best, most enjoyable part of any assignment… ” (No One Ever, 2018, p. never-ever). Referencing. Your favourite thing in the world, right? I know – I get it – referencing can be tedious. Taxing. Tiring. It’s either the final challenge at the end of an assignment, or the perfect-productive-procrastination-pastime when actually doing …
Five Reasons to Attend Open Day
Open Day isn’t just for university newcomers and HSC-hustling high schoolers. With Open Day rapidly approaching on Saturday the 25th of August, and with 2018 marking NewSpace’s first ever Open Day, it’s worth coming along and getting a rare glimpse of the very best UON has to offer on display, regardless of whether you’re three …
6 ways you can get ahead with UON Careers and Student Development
Are you looking for a leg up in the increasingly competitive job market? UON Careers and Student Development can help you do just that – for free. That’s right – free! So forget about all the paid workshops on how to spruik your resume and create a winning cover letter, you can get all that …
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Navigating Addiction: Cigarettes & Vaping
Apart from the mix of accents and frostbite-y cold, my ‘culture shock’ while on Exchange in Manchester last year, consisted of the strong smoking-culture amongst its students. It appeared to be a habit everyone inherited out of high school (or college, rather) – something less common in my experience studying in Sydney and Newcastle. The …
In Pursuit of Success: EQ vs GPA
Heart thumping. Mind racing. Hands shaking. You’re facing the beast. With a mighty click of your mouse, the beast emerges from its den. It looms larger than life. Smirking on a cold lifeless screen lies a grade holding testament to your academic efforts. This string of daunting grades seems to be an unforgiving gauge of …
What is Microsoft Teams, and why should you use it?
Most careers are built on collaboration, and in uni world this translates into the oft-dreaded ‘group work’. Any uni student will tell you this: working by yourself in our connected, collaborative day and age is truly rare, and working in groups can sometimes be a pain. Whether it’s working on five different platforms for five …
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4 ways you can give back to your student community
When was the last time you felt the rush of warm and fuzzy feelings you receive after doing something good for someone else? Well, I challenge you to do something great for your UON student community. And if you don’t get that rush of good feelings after 30 days… I was going to offer you …
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Dogs of UON
DOGS! Great, now that I have your attention, let’s get down to the actual point of this article (no – it’s not just to talk about how great dogs are). Everyone loves a furry companion. You may not know it, but there are a few select circumstances where you can actually bring your dog on …
That time I went to counselling: Demystifing Adverse Circumstances
At the end of the second semester of my second year of uni, I was struggling. I had some fairly unpleasant family drama come up in the middle of the semester and, as a result, I was feeling isolated and unmotivated which seriously impacted my work. I had dropped out of one course, had barely …
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Casual Work: Your guide to getting that side-hustle happening
University life is like one big hustle made up of lots of little hustles bundled together. The study hustle, the social life hustle, the health and wellbeing hustle, the oversleeping hustle, Netflix hustle, etcetera. Your working life during university is one of the most important side-hustles there is, and also one of the most difficult …
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How to get the most out of your internship
You’re getting the marks to pass your courses and overall having a great time enjoying your life at university, when it suddenly occurs to you that you’re actually going to need a job soon. A degree might be that magic stamp on your resume which gets your foot in the door, but if you really …