As businesses race to adopt AI, you might worry that the experience and expertise you’ve built up has become a lot less valuable. But you still have more control over your future than you think.
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Some nursing and teaching students will have access to a new $331 a week payment. But medical, physio and psychology students all miss out.
South Africa’s Working for Water programme addresses environmental issues and provides temporary jobs. But it’s not equipping participants for stable employment.
Job hunting can be stressful but the process can be eased by following some simple steps that land you a suitable, properly remunerated gig.
Teaching, nursing, midwifery and social work students may be eligible to receive $319.50 per week while on placements. But experts say more help is needed.
Courses such as nursing, teaching and social work require students to complete full-time, unpaid work experience to graduate. This often means they have to give up paid work.
Australia is behind the EU when it comes to properly remunerating interns despite employers valuing on-the-job experience.
Today’s graduates may average five separate careers and around 17 different employers in their working life. This means an important skill these days is flexibility and the ability to adapt.
In a victory for meritocracy, sandwich placements overwhelmingly go to the brightest students, irrespective of their background.
When a degree is not enough, how can students make themselves more employable?
A new study quantifies unpaid work experience in Australia and shows how some young people miss out.
With the university summer holidays now in full swing, many second-year students will be gearing up to start their first day at work in September instead of heading back to lectures. Sandwich years – a…
Across the world, governments are asking how to close the gap between the world of education and the world of employment. Now a new collection of papers has set out just how important employer interventions…
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