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Quick revision distraction
Exam time! Focus, determination, organisation… how many times have you done that planning schedule? We do need breaks from the revision. There is always the daydreaming about the summer holidays but as...
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Career Calendar
Have you planned your job search key dates, self review reminders or set up some kind of career calendar for 2013? Many students plan their study timetables and look ahead to breaks or travel plans but...
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How to Survive the Back to Work Blues
Sitting at my desk looking out at 26 degrees of sunshine is really quite disheartening, especially when I know there are people enjoying the beach not far away! Just having to put on work clothes...
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Staying positive while job hunting
Whether you are a new graduate looking for that first ‘proper’ job, or a student returning or starting Uni in a new place needing part-time work, you may be getting fed up with the hunt and not getting...
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What can I do with a Major in…?
With the start of Trimester One fast approaching, a lot of students, whether they be first years or final years, are asking themselves this very question. People study for many different reasons but...
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Why it’s important for students to know stuff
As a student you can sometimes live in the bubble of student life, which, while it is great to be in a world of people like you, having fun, and extending your academic knowledge, it can remove you...
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Facing the degree dilemma
Is your motivation to earn a degree based on your intrinsic desire to achieve; what your parents want; or perhaps simply to land a decent job or start a dream career? So, do you actually need a degree?...
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Mature student? Is it worth it?
Is it worth your time and money going back to University or starting a degree for the first time when you’re not 18? I’m sure everyone will have a different answer to that question but I believe it all...
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Get up and go. Do you have the resilience and drive to develop yourself?
Okay, so my blog this week might be a bit of a rant. Hey, we are all entitled to that every so often! It was sparked off at our staff meeting where we were discussing the enormous efforts we have to go...
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Congrats graduates – Career advice from a Billionaire
This week is graduation week for Victoria University and there are so many positive stories as these men and women go off onto the next stages of their lives. Many of them will stay in touch and even...
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Stop Procrastinating – Just Do It!
This blog was due last week. I can’t avoid it any more. It has reached the point on my To Do list where it is all alone and nothing can come before it. I’ve tried to make the stark words ‘do blog!’...
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It’s ok to take a break
It’s the semester break and I for one am very happy about this. I have 3 long weeks before my next paper starts and while I’m still working full time I eagerly anticipate being able to start those...
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Making good use of the time you have?
The Time You Have (In Jelly Beans) “In a poignant new video, online performance artist Ze Frank physically illustrates how most people spend the majority of their life using jelly beans to delineate...
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Career search – keep motivated and be prepared
In finding an ideal graduate job in an uncertain and changing world, keeping motivated is the most important thing you can do to build career success. Don’t worry too much if your first job doesn’t...
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Pause… for good reasons
PAUSE …has always been mistreated for delaying processes and withholding successes. However, I have found it to be one of the most powerful tool that fires up speed and volume considerably! Here’s why....
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How to lead effective teams
As students you will be operating in teams of some sort. Whether it is flatmates trying to make decisions around a cleaning roster or an assignment group negotiating who should produce what aspects of...
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Is this really the path you want to follow? For the rest of your life?
Did you put the cap on the toothpaste? … I assume you brush your teeth this morning. So, DID you put the cap on this morning? Or DIDN’T you? Or can you be SURE? ~Grey’s Anatomy, Series 9 2013 is...
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Leadership skills for young NZers – watch this!
Sam Johnson, Young New Zealander of the Year 2012, is very much in demand. Speaker engagements, presentations, TV shows…he’s met the Dalai Lama, Hillary Clinton, and danced with Camilla. Not bad for a...
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Great quotes to inspire you to greatness!
We all have good intentions at the start of a new year, with various form of new year’s resolution in circulation. However, how many of those have you achieved over the years? All 80% 50% 10% None! If...
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New Year, New You?
I always find the start of January an interesting time as suddenly it’s all about starting over, starting fresh, out with the old in with the new, etc. I get why we do this, the start of a new year...
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