With a focus on employability, this unique program will equip you with all the skills you need to get ahead of all the other candidates in a tough market.
It's called Job Smart Edge and it offers you more opportunities than ever before to gain practical skills, authentic industry experience, career coaching from business leaders and networking opportunities across a range of organisations from SMEs and digital startups to market leading consultancies such as Deloitte, KPMG, and PWC.
Job Smart Edge is only available to international students enrolled in the Business School.
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We are committed to providing our students with a truly transformative education. The skills they learn putting knowledge into practice will be critical to succeeding in the rapidly evolving future of work.
Evolved from our award-winning Job Smart program, Job Smart Edge features several new opportunities for participating students:
An authentic digital industry project is built into the Job Smart Edge program. This brings forward the opportunity for students to complete a piece of work for an Australian organisation, earlier than ever before. Students will work on a collaborative project to solve a problem for their industry partner.
A series of pre- and post-project interactive digital workshops, jointly delivered by the Business School's Careers and Employability Office and Work-Integrated Learning Hub, will focus on equipping students with the right skills and tools to navigate through a dampened job market and secure future careers and employment.
Postgraduate international students will have the option to use their Job Smart Edge experience as part of a 6 credit point unit of study. Students who wish to do so should enrol in the elective BUSS6102 as one of their four units of study. Through this unit, you'll complete an employability bootcamp to undertake industry-focused problem-solving work in diverse teams.
Beyond real world employability skills, at the completion of the program, eligible students will also receive:
Job Smart Edge is exclusively available to international students enrolled to study a degree at the Business School.
If you have any questions about participating in Job Smart Edge, please email business.jobsmart@sydney.edu.au.
Postgraduate international students have the option to take Job Smart Edge as part of their degree, or to complete it as an extracurricular program. Students who complete the program as part of their degree will be required to enrol in BUSS6102, a 6 credit point elective unit of study, and will be liable for unit of study fees.
For more information download the Job Smart Edge in-curriculum flyer (pdf, 303KB) or contact business.placements@sydney.edu.au.
Undergraduate international students are able to participate in Job Smart Edge as an extracurricular activity only.
Domestic students interested in programs to develop their employability skills and career readiness should also contact business.placements@sydney.edu.au.
Job Smart Edge opportunities will be offered online, with the goal of preparing students for the new digital way of working.
Job Smart Edge is the reimagined version of Job Smart Phase 1. Participants who complete Job Smart Edge can advance to Job Smart Phase 3 in the following semester.
Registrations are now open for Semester 2, 2021.
Kick-off workshop
CV coaching
Employability skills bootcamp
Digital Industry Project
Consulting for good volunteer project
LinkedIn profile development
Wrap-up workshop
