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5 Skills You Learn In Hospitality That’ll Set You Up For Life

Blake Shipley
December 18, 2018
Alternative Studies, Career Paths, Get Advice, News, Study, University, Vocational (VET), Work
Hospitality jobs are the cream of the crop when it comes to jobs you can get after high school. Everyone knows that bartending at the local haunt is the epitome of a good time, and working at a café or restaura...
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3 Career Pathways That Are Sure To Land You A Job

Blake Shipley
December 16, 2018
Alternative Studies, Career Paths, Future of Jobs, Get Advice, Getting a Job, News, Pathways, Study, Work
There’s no denying that the future of work is changing. As much as we would like to ignore it, it’s this elephant in the room that’s always there, threatening to stomp all over our career prospects. It sucks...
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There’s No ATAR Needed with These Bachelor Degrees

Blake Shipley
December 16, 2018
Alternative Studies, Get Advice, News, Pathways, Study, University
It’s the end of the year and a lot has changed. You’ve gone through all the classes, done all the exams, said goodbye to your friends, cried, laughed, and cried some more. You’ve celebrated finishing school and...
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How To Game The ATAR and Get Into the Course You Want

Blake Shipley
December 13, 2018
Get Advice, News, Pathways, Study, Study Tips, University
So, ATARs are out and there’s plenty of mixed emotions flying around. You’ve already heard us going on about how the ATAR doesn’t mean anything and how you’re worth more than a number and yadda yadda yadda. It’...
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Keen on Producing Sound? Here Are All Your Options

Blake Shipley
December 11, 2018
Alternative Studies, Career Paths, Get Advice, News, Study, University, Work
Loads of us dream about making music and producing sound. Plenty of people do it as a hobby, so the prospect of turning it into a career is naturally a pretty alluring one. But, like with all creative careers, ...
8 Jobs You Didn’t Realise You Could Get With A Design Arts Degree

8 Jobs You Didn’t Realise You Could Get With A Design Arts Degree

Blake Shipley
December 8, 2018
Alternative Studies, Arts and Entertainment, Career Paths, Explore Careers, Get Advice, News, Study, University, Work
If you’re one of those people who can’t wrap their head around Pythagoras theorem, but can spend hours sketching on the blank pages of their exam booklet it might be worth looking at a Bachelor of Design Arts. ...
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Your ATAR Is More Important To Your School Than You

Blake Shipley
December 5, 2018
Career Paths, Get Advice, High School, News, Pathways, Study, The Future, University
Everyone had at least one moment at school where a teacher or headmaster would say something along the lines of “this is the most important thing you’ll learn here.” And not to discredit whatever it was that th...
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High School Is Never Really Over

Blake Shipley
November 30, 2018
High School, Life Advice, Love and Friendship, News, The Future
The other day I ran into an old classmate from high school. It was someone that I have one of those semi-awkward, in between relationships with where you aren’t close enough to hang out, but you are obligated t...
ATAR

Why Getting A High ATAR Isn’t All It’s Cracked Up To Be

Blake Shipley
November 27, 2018
Alternative Studies, Get Advice, News, Study, University
Final exams are wrapping up, which means school leavers everywhere are now stuck in this cruel, collective waiting game. While the newfound freedom of life sans school is incredible, every day spent at the beac...
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Planning On Studying Tech Degree? Here’s An Ace Scholarship For Ya

Blake Shipley
November 23, 2018
Get Advice, News, Study, University
Degrees in technology are cropping up more and more these days, which is no surprise considering the world we’re living in. With new technologies being developed all the time and new jobs being created, we’re g...
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5 Careers You Can Travel The World With

Blake Shipley
November 21, 2018
Alternative Studies, Career Paths, Get Advice, News, Study, Travel, Travel Hacks, Work, Work Life
If you’ve managed to get away from school or your job long enough to explore the world a little bit, then you probably know how amazing travel is. Ask anyone what they would do with themselves if they had no ob...
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I Think I Want To Do An Apprenticeship (But I’m Not Sure Yet)

Blake Shipley
November 15, 2018
Career Paths, Get Advice, News, Study, Vocational (VET), Work
Choosing whether you want to start an apprenticeship or traineeship can take a while to decide. It shouldn’t but it does; it goes against what many of our teachers, parents, and peers have told us we “should” b...
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