👋 Hello!

Welcome to the fourth edition of The Early Impact, the newsletter that provides you with news, updates and resources on how to build your career as an emerging professional.

Another busy month with lots of different things going on, so apologies this is a day late for the start of the week, but here’s the content I found throughout May!

Let’s get into it!

📰 News & Updates

The monthly roundup of emerging professional news and updates

• Female graduates beat males on all fronts – except salary (AFR)

• The uni employers like most when hiring graduates (AFR)

• More Australians go above and beyond duty amid job fears (AFR)

• Employers back worker ‘choice’ in right to disconnect battle (AFR)

• Generous perks equals happy workers? Not always. Here’s what employees really want (The Conversation)

• Unstable employment while you’re young can set you up for a wage gap later in life – even if you eventually land full-time work (The Conversation)

• Students with dyslexia face challenges transitioning to the workplace, but with support they can thrive (The Conversation)

📑 Publications

Useful references, documents, and sources

• Hatch Hotlist: Where Gen Z Australians most want to work (Hatch)

• 2024 Work Trend Index Annual Report (Microsoft and Linkedin)

📢 Opportunities

Limited-time career paths, educational scholarships, and professional growth opportunities that can shape your future

• Humanitarian Innovation Hackathon (USYD)

• Devpost [various hackathons here] (Devpost)

• Tech Council’s Virtual Work Experience (Tech Council)

• Data Science Case Competitions (Kaggle)

• Google Gemini API Developer Competition (Google)

• Find your passion. Join a community. Explore new hobbies. (Career Diary)

🗓️ Events

Online and In-Person events for progressing your career

• Build Club [Multiple events listed here] (Build Club)

• QPay: Discover and join university clubs and events [Multiple events listed here] (QPay)

• Sydney AI, Data and Tech Events [Multiple events listed here] (Syd Events)

• Melbourne AI, Data and Tech Events [Multiple events listed here] (Mel Events)

• Career Ready Series - Session 3: Presentation Skills (Microsoft)

🧠 Thought Leadership

Expertise, insight, opinions and experience in careers

• How much fun should you have at work? (AFR)

• Why office worker Courtney became a tradie after watching The Block (AFR)

• Adam Powick failed to make partner twice. Now he runs Deloitte (AFR)

• The humble email sign-off is not what it used to be (AFR)

• What the state of your desk says about your work (AFR)

• Workplace besties: How to build relationships at work while staying professional (The Conversation)

• How to thrive at work if your older boss expects hustle culture (The Conversation)

• 10 Must-Have Skills To Put On Your Resume In 2024 (Forbes)

🛠️ Featured Tool

One great career tool you need

As the university semester begins to come to a close for the holiday period, many students are participating in vacationer or internship programs for the break. Alongside programs such as these, Forage’s virtual work experience programs replicate work at top companies and connect students to the companies themselves. In just hours, students can learn relevant tools and skills necessary to complete tasks that replicate an employee’s work day. Students can choose from 250+ programs, from 125+ employers across 20+ career areas.

Forage is a really great place to get a snack-sized introduction to different jobs and learn about what actually goes on at these companies. Not only do you gain a better understanding of the diverse and exciting career pathways available to you, but you also build the skills and confidence that will set you up for success as you move from the world of study to the world of work.

There are many more programs to choose from, offered by companies such as Accenture, ANZ, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Commonwealth Bank, Deloitte, Goldman Sachs, HSBC, JPMorgan Chase & Co., KPMG, Mastercard, PwC, Red Bull, Telstra, Visa, and many more!

I highly recommend trying out a program or two, whether you’re interested in tech, finance, healthcare, consulting, law, human resources or some other field. There’s something for everyone!

🃏Quick Extra

A bonus from me

My new password is Hello84April-Pepsi-XXXVn2by7Windy🌖madagascarNf4+🐔Au🏋️🏋️🏋️iamloved.

So how did I come up with that password?

Through The Password Game, a fun project created by coder Neal Agarwal. It starts off pretty simple with you coming up with a password. The first 4 rules are your most basic: 5 characters long, a number, uppercase letter, and a symbol. But it only goes downhill from there…

You have to include the next best chess move in algebraic notation (Nf4+), fill in the daily Wordle (Windy), complete a CAPTCHA (n2by7), determine the current moon phase in emoji (🌖), determine your location through GeoGuessr (Madagascar), and many more tasks.

I’m sure you can see why my password is so complicated by now. There’s a total of 35 rules which slowly come up 1 by 1. Unfortunately, I only got up to Rule 24 which was to “include the URL of 34 minute 58 second long Youtube video”. Not because I couldn’t find a video, but because I couldn’t feed a chicken (called Peter) fast enough with 🐛 emojis which ended my game (Rule 23).

…and that’s all for this month’s edition of The Early Impact. Feel free to hit 'reply' and let me know how I did!

Cheers,

Noah

P.S. I post on LinkedIn biweekly about cybersecurity, emerging technology, careers, and learning & development.