Get a Head Start on Your Peers

In today’s ultra competitive recruitment market, employers are looking for more than just a degree.

Think about it for a minute: All those people applying for your dream job will probably have the same degree or something similar. So why should the employer choose you?

Overseas experience will certainly make you stand out from the crowd. It shows you have the maturity and independence to live and study away from home, as well as an international perspective that only comes from travelling.

If you can add to that some good solid work experience credentials and references from professional business contacts, your job application is really starting to look special.

Gain a global perspective by studying overseas

With all the gloomy financial headlines in the newspapers these days, studying overseas might sound like an unaffordable extravagance.

What the newspapers aren’t pointing out is that the fluctuating currency rates have made it much cheaper to study in countries like Australia.

At Bond University - Australia’s leading private university – the exchange rates equate to a substantial reduction in tuition fees for Canadian students, so there’s never been a better opportunity to consider studying abroad.

Around 50% of Bond’s students come from overseas, with a strong contingent from Canada, so you’ll feel right at home.

Living on campus with loads of other international and Aussie students, you’ll also enjoy a great social life while you study for your degree at a world-renowned institution.

Gain practical experience while you’re still at uni

Work experience is a strong component of all Bond’s courses and each Faculty has people who can help you arrange an appropriate internship or work placement.

As a private, not-for-profit institution, Bond has strong ties with the corporate sphere so there is the opportunity to gain hands-on experience with global multi-nationals and major Australian companies with international connections.

Another key point of difference at Bond is that their class sizes are very small and the professors adopt a personalised, mentoring approach so they really get to know their students.

All of the academics have worked in the ‘real world’ as professionals and/or consultants and they happily use their contacts to source work experience opportunities for their best and brightest.

Workplace technologies at your fingertips

Bond University places emphasis on giving students the opportunity to step outside the classroom and practice their skills in real and simulated workplaces. “In every faculty and every discipline, we focus on real-life scenarios with emphasis on graduate placement programs, work experience and internships that give students the opportunity to put their theoretical skills into practice” said a Bond University representative.

The aim of the ‘practical learning’ facilities at Bond University is to replicate real world equipment and tools to give students the expertise to walk out of studies and straight into a career. The state-of-the-art Moot Courts and Legal Skills Centre at Bond are a great example of this. Modelled on input provided by judges, legal practitioners and the Faculty, this 21st century facility is designed to give students simulated real world experience in practicing their legal skills, ensuring that, as graduates, they will be able to walk into any courtroom and feel right at home.

Preparing for the job application process

And when it comes time to step out into the big wide world, you’ll be well prepared for the daunting prospect of interview panels and recruitment processes, thanks to all the job application skills you’ll have gained from Bond’s on-campus Career Development Centre.

Right from your very first day at uni, you’ll have access to their interviewing techniques workshops, resume guidelines and critiques, portfolio presentation, company research and job vacancy web portal.

The Career Development Centre’s industry contacts span the globe and include Bond’s worldwide alumni network of former graduates who now hold prominent positions in leading companies and actively adopt a policy of ‘Bondies employing Bondies’.

See Bond University’s website for more information on the exciting prospect of

studying overseas at Australia’s leading private university.*

* Visit www.bond.edu.au/ambition/fastfacts for more information