This year, Victoria University of Wellington Women in Tech (VUWWIT) ran its first conference, WITcon. VUWWIT club president Aleisha Amohia shares what the students learnt about hosting a large-scale event—from budgets to hashtags. WITcon organiser and VUWWIT president Aleisha Amohia on stage during 2018 WITcon. The tech industry famously lacks diversity. Women and non-binary folk …
Four students from Victoria Business School joined 35 others from across the world for a Social Economic Enterprise Development programme run by the School of Business Management at the Institut Teknologi Bandung in Indonesia. Students from across the world attended the Social Economic Enterprise Development programme, including four students from VBS. Read about the experience …
Professor Linda Trenberth, Vice-Provost (Academic) at Victoria University, sponsored three students from the Victoria Plus Programme to attend the 2018 Aspiring Leaders’ Forum, held at the end of July. Thomas Fuge, one of the three students who attended, shares his experiences. Attendees at this year’s Aspiring Leaders’ Forum outside Parliament House. This year’s Aspiring Leaders’ …
Architecture student Austin D’Souza attended an architecture conference at the Athens Institute for Education and Research in Greece, engaging with architectural experts and experiencing the country’s rich history. Austin experienced the sites of Athens during his visit to Greece in June, including the ancient Parthenon. Greece, with all its history and interesting sites, is a …
Victoria University is celebrating the ten-year anniversary of the Victoria International Leadership Programme (VILP) and the Victoria Plus Programme—both designed to recognise our student leaders and their contribution to our local and global community. Earlier this week, we introduced you to Nashie who shared her experience of being involved in VILP. Today, we’re sharing the …
Victoria University is celebrating the ten-year anniversary of the Victoria International Leadership Programme (VILP) and the Victoria Plus Programme—both designed to recognise our student leaders and their contribution to our local and global community. This week, we’ll introduce you to two students who are completing these leadership programmes and who tell us about what they’ve …
Last week, Konstantina Vasileva—a PhD candidate from the School of Psychology—attended a Research Bazaar (ResBaz) at Victoria University of Wellington, an event designed to build the awareness of digital capability research across the University and Wellington. Read her observations from the two-day event: “Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.”—Zora Neale Hurston …
Last month, successful entrepreneur and Victoria University alumna, Kati Kasza, shared valuable advice to a diverse group of students, entrepreneurs and working professionals as the first fireside chat guest speaker of 2018. Professor Stephen Cummings and Kati Kasza at the fireside chat at Victoria Business School. Fireside chats, hosted by Professor Stephen Cummings, the Director …
There’s no getting away from it—the best jobs most often come from word-of-mouth. By word-of-mouth, I don’t necessarily mean from close friends or family. It can come from colleagues, lecturers, tutors, the corner dairy owner, ministers, shop assistants, friends of friends, people you might meet at a conference, a social event, even someone you meet …
Most New Zealanders live near the sea, so there’s a widely held view that everyone should learn to swim. Yet most New Zealanders live in even closer proximity to data, and relatively few know how to navigate it safely, to harness its power or to enjoy its benefits. That needs to change. You’ve almost certainly …
This is one of the questions often asked by students who visit Careers and Employment service. The answer is: It depends. Sorry, that’s probably not want you want to hear. It’s just that there are a lot of variables to finding work, from your employability to what influences your career decisions. We know some things …
Victoria has some very well run student support programmes, which require high quality student leaders to step up to deliver services and be prepared to work hard to help their peers. The leaders need integrity, excellent communication skills and resilience but perhaps the most important quality is empathy. This reminds me of Simon Sinek’s book …
Here in the Careers team, we call this month “March madness”. There are opportunities for students to meet potential employers every day if they want to, which we know can be overwhelming! The good news is—we’ve done it before. We’re here to answer your questions and guide you through these crazy weeks, so come and …
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