Community Links for Graduating Students

Community Links for Graduating Students sueellson@newcomersnetwork.com 4 October 2012

Today • Seven Best Settlement Strategies • Three Main Networks • Networking • Mentoring • Budgeting • Questions and Answers My motto – friendly and professional – give YOU valueOnly one person to talk at a time

Seven Best Settlement Strategies • Find a friend • Source local information (council) • Start of continue a hobby or interest • Ask questions • Expect it to be challenging • Develop new routines and rituals • You – your personality and health

Three Networks • Social (friends and family)www.meetup.com • Professional (work and industry)www.myfuture.edu.au • Personal (sport or hobby) www.mav.asn.au (local council) Use technology to maintain these connections (online with LinkedIn and your own database/address book)

Networking • Smile (universal language) • Fun, Food and Free (regular events) • Recreate and maintain networks (inc repatriates) • Women need Women Friends, Men need Men • Talk to people (inc older people or borrow a dog) • Keep up to date with popular technology – Email, Blog/Website, LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, Mobile Phones, Tablets, Computers

Networking Strategies • Arrive first, leave last, target people on their own – ask how you heard about this event (not what do you do) • Seven exchanges before a relationship, test before trust • Add to your database if appropriate (and LinkedIn) • Maintain contact every 90 days to keep alive • Share items of value to them (not to you) • Refer on whenever possible • Follow up, follow up, follow up

Networking Strategies

Mentoring • Top three methods for finding work when you are clear about the goal and work culture – Networking, Referral, Volunteering • Require excellent English – written, spoken, comprehension and presentation skills http://australianetwork.com/businessenglish/ • Research organisations and industry through professional associations and make direct contact • Find up to three mentors – industry, business, personal • Request initial meeting, emails 2-3 per week, phone call once per week for three months, coffee meeting every six weeks • Join your professional association http://myfuture.edu.au • Career Management http://www.blueprint.edu.auhttp://www.worklifegroup.com

Budgeting • Important decisions – seek advice of at least three people (professional advice can be worthwhile – research first, ring three people, evaluate options, choose provider) • Avoid spending money unless ABSOLUTELY necessary – keep a cash reserve, save first, spend the rest. Put the savings in an account you cannot access via an ATM or EFTPOS • Shop after eating and buy non perishable items for when you don’t feel like cooking and buy fresh fruit and vegetables when markets are closing • Check for all the little amounts you are paying, gym memberships not cancelled, bank account fees, select your telephone/utilities carefully • More excellent tips at http://www.moneysmart.gov.auhttp://www.cheapskates.com.au

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Community Links for Graduating Students