Getting Involved
Alumni return to Macquarie share their career advice
Macquarie’s Career and Employment Service recently partnered with Alumni Relations to offer the first in a series for final year undergraduate students called Launch your Career. During the series, alumni working in a variety of employment areas will be returning ‘home’ to share their career stories and offer advice to current students to help them move forward professionally – eve...
Building connections to build a career
Today, the average age of teachers is currently over 50, with many considering retirement in the foreseeable future. While that will certainly make way for a new cohort of teachers to take over, as many graduate teachers know, it can be hard to land a permanent position. Macquarie alumnus Tsukasa Ishida has some advice. Tsukasa originally came to Macquarie as an exchange student from his...
Library benefits better than ever
In the most recent 2014 Alumni Preferences Survey, respondents told us that they would love to get more from their relationship with Macquarie. At the top of the list was increased library access, to support both lifelong learning and professional development. In response, Macquarie University library is now offering alumni access to an extra 4300 ebooks and more than 2000 new journal ti...
Meet globetrotting marine scientist Ben Buchan
Ben Buchan graduated from Macquarie in 2014 with a Bachelor of Marine Science, and since then has been travelling the world’s oceans as part of a Rolex Scholarship. “I have an intense love for the oceans,” Ben says. “I want to see them survive and for future generations to be able to experience what I have.” Ben says that his journey, which has so far included diving with shark...
Macquarie calling
In the midst of what seems to be a steady stream of bad news in the media, it is easy to feel overwhelmed. Studies have shown that the best way to manage this feeling is to take action: whether as a volunteer for a cause close to your heart or by helping support organisations with the power to make lasting change. If you’re a Macquarie supporter, then you are already helping to make groun...
Save the date: upcoming alumni events in Beijing, Shanghai and Hong Kong
At Macquarie University alumni functions you never know who’ll be there – your next employer, employee or mentor. You could catch up with old friends you haven’t seen in a while and make new friends as you reminisce about your university experiences. Opportunities surround us all the time. They’re only wasted if we fail to act upon them, so why not come along to the next event in yo...