Prosple Australia/GradAustralia Profiles

Celebrate the small wins: staying positive and focussing on the little things improves your mood and keeps you motivated.

Every rotation came with a sense of surprise and anticipation. I could have a good guess at what was in store for me, but with a new team and sometimes even a new location, I was faced with new experiences and more opportunities to learn.

I wanted to work for NSW Treasury because I saw that it offered a massively broad range of interesting and relevant work.

It’s really rewarding knowing the things you are working on will be used to shape the future education systems of Australia.

I work in a team that monitors and analyses regional and overall labour market trends and their implications for different job seeker cohorts.

Don’t pigeon hole yourself into a particular practice area of law. There are so many options as a lawyer, so keep an open-mind and challenge yourself.

There is a tension between conceptual purity and pragmatic implementation of statistics that must be negotiated and interpreted by the analyst, which I find both challenging and interesting.

At university you’re surrounded by many opportunities and influential, intellectual people to learn from. Use these resources and gain as much experience as you can.