Recent content by ahallam2

For a commerce/business degree I would steer clear of La Trobe. I have heard its very weak in this area and that RMIT/Deakin/Swinburne are at least on par, if not better. I can say from personal experience that Swinburne has pretty good teaching quality and great campus location (although...

Possibly the worst advice I have read on this board - especially in the weeks since your post. Anybody working in finance on commissions at the moment is/should be absolutely shitting themselves.

Typical marketer - always trying to sell something :rofl:

1. Not quite sure what you're asking here but some positions that are marketing related are Assistant brand manager, brand manager, sales. Medium to long term, you may go into a management role and keep working your way up to higher management positions. 2. Wishy washy just means that it...

I wouldn't worry about it. Recruiters usually, if not almost always, hire AUS permanent residents as opposed to overseas students. If they do hire them, they will pay them shit wages and get them to do menial jobs. Although it is a bit worrying when its Macq bank doing it...

Ok, I'm going to be brutally honest here. Yes, International business is a useless load of crap. It sounds like you learn how to fly around the world and do billion dollar deals. It's not like that at all. (At my uni in international business) they teach you about importing/exporting and...

It would useful if it somehow made formulaic and boring satirical websites funny. :wave:

What are you studying then princess?

Not if you are relatively passionate, have very good social and presentation skills and get some work experience while at uni. I have heard its a difficult profession to get a good grad job. Refer to stazi's experience applying for P&G in the internship thread. Look at what he had to do to get...

At my uni (swinburne), there are heaps of people doing marketing. From the people I have spoken to, I think a lot are doing it for the wrong reasons. It seems like they want to have a 'real job' and go to work in a suit and make decent money. However, after the introductory maths unit of the...

You can just choose to major in economics within a commerce degree if you cbf doing other commerce subjects. You can then do honours in economics. Maybe theres slightly more prestige with a double degree - but meh. I wouldnt do things based on prestige. If you want to major in accounting...

Firstly, I'm in melbourne so this may be irrelevant. I go to Swinburne University (first year) and got a place at a big 4 for vac work. Swinburne is nowhere near as prestigious as Melbourne or Monash and from talking to recruiters - it doesnt matter as much as it used to. With the skills...