Podcast 02 – LinkedIn Makeover

Podcast 02 – LinkedIn Makeover

LinkedIn Makeover LinkedIn can lead to great things, but not everyone gets it right. In this member’s only episode, we meet first-year uni student and future successful graduate, Emi, who wants help with her LinkedIn profile. Anna McLeod, Team Leader Business...
Don’t you know who I am?

Don’t you know who I am?

In my regular job as well as with Successful Graduate, I get to meet some really talented high school and university students. It means I get a lot of requests to connect on social media, particularly Facebook. But as I work more and more within graduate employablity,...
Values in action

Values in action

15 years into my career, I’m working very differently from how I was as a new grad. And yet now I can see that my values have informed both ways of working (there just wasn’t a Successful Graduate course to help me articulate them at the start). Let me use myself as...
5 reasons to love your position description

5 reasons to love your position description

Of all the documents associated with being an employee, your position description is perhaps most aptly described as a ‘living document’. Sure, the organisation’s values may be pinned to your cubicle wall the first day you arrive on the job, but your position...
Graduate resilience and rubber bands

Graduate resilience and rubber bands

One of my favourite synonyms for ‘resilience’ is ‘elasticity’. It might not immediately resonate with you, but think of it like this. Resilience isn’t about being tough until you snap like a piece of waxed string. Nor is it about being completely pliable like a piece...