First Year Development Day 2015

Your Future Starts Here

Are you a first year Business or Commerce student? Get involved in this exciting opportunity to kick-start your future! With the graduate space becoming increasingly competitive, Chartered Accountants has responded with the First Year Development Day. Event Details When: Tuesday 15 October Time: 10:30am-3:30pm (registration from 10:00am) Location: Level 1, Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand

33 Erskine Street, Sydney NSW 2000 Cost: Free, lunch and afternoon tea will be provided You will have the opportunity to listen to insightful presentations on business etiquette, how to dress for success and about the overall recruitment process. The day also involves a number of rotational workshops designed to increase employability to give students an edge in the recruitment process for future vacation and graduate positions. These workshops will include:

Writing winning resumes and cover letters

How to perform well in an interview

Practice assessment centres For more information and to register visit charteredaccountants.com/FYD15NSW. Spaces are limited so registration is essential! Make sure you register today for the chance to meet potential employers and gain first-hand information from recruiters to enhance your chances in securing a future vacation or graduate role!

In this publication, we will be provide

you with the best tips to get through

the tough, daunting recruitment

process to get that get that job.

First we will analyse the two

documents that will likely constitute

as your initial contact; the cover letter

and resume. Next, we will progress

towards the interview, which will

provide you with the opportunity to

show your potential employer why

you are the one.

There will also be additional content

further inside the digest that will assist

you.

On a side note, ECFS would also like to

thank those that attended our events

over the first half of the semester.

Make sure you check out the coverage

of those events on our website or

various social media.

Looking ahead, please anticipate the

Mid-Semester Drinks in a few weeks

and our workshop to assist you with

your studies as we progress towards

the end of the semester.

Further information will be provided

on a later date.

We hope you make use of this

publication and as you’d expect,

there will always be room for

improvement. Your feedback will be

more than welcome for future

editions to better cater to what you

need; after all, this is YOUR society.

Moreover, our sponsor, Chartered

Accountants, will be holding an

event on the 15th of October 2015 to

assist first year students to grasp a

potential career in accounting

through the development of

practical skills and knowledge to

improve employability and provide

an insight of the recruitment

process.

Finisia, will also be delivering an

event to provide you with an

opportunity to hear first-hand from

NSW-based impact investing leaders

as they explore Australia’s role in

building a global market of impact

investing.

To find out more about those

events, please refer to the flyers on

the previous pages.

Alexander Chung Publications Executive

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Success isn’t owned, it’s leased, and rent is due every day. – JJ Watt

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Dictionary is the only place that success comes before work. – Vince Lombardi

- Vince Lombardi

uccess isn’t owned, it’s leased, and rent is due every day. – JJ Watt

INTRODUCTION

WHY YOU?

WHY THE COMPANY?

CONCLUSION

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Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm. – Winston Churchill

What can you do to boost your chances of employment?

The Interview

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What do MQU students have to say?

Submitting resumes seems so old fashioned, when you

can literally just give them a hyperlink to your

LinkedIn account. What’s even worse are those

interview processes where they require you to type out

every single detail about yourself into text boxes, and

then at the very end submit your resume.

Jason Y. B .AppFin/B.Law

Group interviews are the hunger games of the business

world.

L isa L . B.MktgMedia

If you’re not getting testing in the graduate programs,

it’s because your application format, or the way you

have written your resume is lack luster, plus the cover

letter failed to impress.

J im H. B .Com

I don’t generally find normal sit down interviews

particularly hard, you just have to give reasons as to

why you should be hired, that fit into the interviewer’s

criteria. The hard bit is figuring out what that criterion

actually is.

Dave S . B .Com

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HARKIRAN KAUR

Human Resources Director

ECFS

Q&A

HARKIRAN KAUR

Human Resources Director

ECFS

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John Smith TEL: 0412 345 678

EMAIL: JOHN.SMITH@STUDENTS.MQ.EDU.AU AU.LINKEDIN.COM/IN/WHATSGOOD

OBJECTIVE

As a commerce student, I intend to expand my professional knowledge through this

cadetship position. My existing academic knowledge and my prior experience as a junior

accounts assistant will prove useful in fulfilling this position.

EMPLOYMENT

[Company name] [Location] Junior accounts clerk [date] – [date]

Key Responsibilities:

Drafted and prepared client correspondence

Communicated with clients over the phone and face-to-face

Managed the firm’s finances

Achievements:

Exceeding the expectations of clients

EDUCATION

[Bachelor of Commerce]

Macquarie University 2014 – current

Active member of the Economics, Commerce and Finance Society (ECFS)

Expected Completion late 2016

ADDITIONAL SKILLS

Computer skills

o Photoshop

o Microsoft Office

o MYOB

HOBBIES

Riding mountain goats

Video games

REFERENCES

Vito Corleone Manager

[company name & details]

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