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Seremify makes a valid point about doing com/law. Law isn't just learning about the law and the legal system. It is a degree which promotes critical thinking and works your mind. The skills required to study law help those who will move into front office because of how it makes you think better...

I dont know if it's that many. Assume that 1200 apply, Professional Cadetships Australia generally only give no more than 60 interviews and that's been when multiple companies have offered cadetships. I'm sure there are more than 60 exceptional candidates out of 1200 so I'm a bit uncertain on...

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This. I thought finance would be exactly what I wanted to do. I learnt it wasn't and I'm not interested in it so I've changed my focus. Make sure you know what finance entails, talk to people who study finance.

At a bare minimum 96. However, you will generally find that because of the competiveness that benchmark is closer to 97.5. Whilst marks are important for co-op, you also need to have a lot and a lot of extra-curriculars.

As I have already said many times depends on what financial job you are going into. If it is anything other than internal and operations based roles, the leverage it gives you is very limited. Accounting cadets probably get better leverage because of their actual exposure to clients and the...

Yes. Finance has quite a bit of maths. People with good marks in maths are also considered to have higher learning abilities and are better thinkers, even if the maths skills are not necessarily used. Ask any investment banker. A friend of a friend got told in an interview with someone high up...

If you read my post above, finance co-op is your best bet, however its extremely difficult particularly if you have not done 4 unit maths. However, thats not to say UBS would be useless for you. Although many people in investment banks have started out as accounting cadets so dont rule that out...

Yeah once degree is finished. 65 is a credit, 75 is a D, 85 is a HD. Depends, what do you really really want to do? If you are unsure, the UBS cadetship gives you broad exposure to the operations of an investment bank. On the other hand, if you know what you want to do (finance, accounting...

Placements occur at the end of your study (after 3 years). You get 2 or 3 placements of 6 months each. You need to keep a 65 WAM as a co-op scholar so I believe that this is done to ensure that the marks are kept.

No. There are plenty of jobs available to people with an accounting/finance major other than accounting style jobs.

Ask any commerce graduate who didnt do Accounting, Finance or both as majors and I guarantee you their biggest regret will be not doing them. Why? Because majors generally restrict you in job choice. Accounting and finance don't really restrict you at all as seremify said.

Okay 1. I did not accept UBS. The offer is not as good as people make it out to be and it didn't exactly suit what I wanted. 2. Basically the process is Professional Cadetships Australia interview, they shortlist, UBS then usually cuts the shortlist, UBS does one round of interviews to their...

For the UBS cadetship - They usually offer around 4 cadetships all up (2 in each division). Sometimes they may offer more. - The pay is lower than the figure posted in the forum - You work full-time for the first few years and go to uni part time. After a few years (usually at least 2) you go...

I was offered a UBS cadetship last year to start this year. Lets just say that there is a hell of a long way to go in the process and from reading what you have said, you will get quite a few surprises in the process.

Is it absolutely imperative that you do all first year subjects in the first year? Like say if I didnt do FINS1613 in first year could I do it in a subsequent year. I don't plan on doing a major in Finance.

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To start with by the sounds of it you are going into your second year of uni? I doubt you have much chance of getting a cadetship this late, most of them are year 12 leavers and occasionally they will get a person before they start their second year of uni. Added to that you can only do a...

My english teacher said it has been extended from 2009-2012 to 2009-2014 as they await for the national syllabus. There is no point bringing out all new texts and modules if they will only get 2 or so years out of it so they are prolonging it.

Cadetships are very limited in terms of the field they are offered in. They are most popular in business, specifically accounting. It involves turning a three year degree into four. Here, you work full-time and go to uni part-time for two years before you switch, working casually (part-time)...