ALUMNI CAREERS @ MELBOURNE
Welcome to Alumni Careers @ Melbourne, a new
regular feature of GradNet that provides you with
interesting articles that are relevant to your
ongoing career development. Each edition will
focus on different issues identified as being
of concern to graduates as they move through various
stages of transition, employment and career change.
This edition's article is Effective
Applications - Cover Letters and Resumes.
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Graduate Profile
REBECCA
MCINTOSH: Walking 20km around a seal colony, removing
entanglements from massive sea lions, counting new-born
seal pups, and removing teeth from the skulls of dead sea
lions - it's all in a day's work for Rebecca McIntosh
(Bachelor of Science), Zoologist, Researcher and PhD Candidate.
Read more.
University News
THAI
UNI VISITS FOR PD TRAINING: More than 50 staff from
Mahasarakham University, Thailand, visited the University
of Melbourne recently for a five-day professional development
program devised and run for them by the University's
Centre for the Study of Higher Education (CSHE). Read
more.
MULTI-MILLION DOLLAR INDONESIAN CONTRACT GOES TO MU
PRIVATE: Melbourne University Private's School of
International Development has won a multi-million dollar
contract to conduct a major legal reform project in
Indonesia. Read
more.
APPROACHES
TO T&L IN ASIA REVIEWED: The University of Melbourne
has adopted an Indigenous Employment Strategy designed
to make the University an employer of choice for Indigenous
Australians. Read
more.
INTELLECTUAL
PROPERTY AND THE FREE TRADE AGREEMENT:The group
of negotiators involved in signing off on the Intellectual
Property provision in the Australia-United States Free
Trade Agreement will speak at a seminar at the University
of Melbourne on June 18. Read
more.
University Fund 2004 Annual Appeal
At this time of the year, the Chancellor Ms Fay Marles
AM invites alumni and supporters to contribute to the
University's areas of greatest need by giving to the
University Fund annual appeal. Donations made to the University Fund allow the University
to provide additional and practical support for our
students; add to library resources; contribute to research;
or to assist faculties with priority needs. Thank you
to those of you who have supported the annual giving
program in the past.
If you wish to support the University from abroad,
you may be interested in the option of making a gift
to The Friends of the University of Melbourne Charitable
Trust in the UK, or The University of Melbourne USA Foundation. A gift to either the Trust, or the Foundation, for
the benefit of the University of Melbourne may enable
you to obtain taxation benefits in the relevant country
The Chancellor's invitation
to support the 2004 annual appeal and a donation
response form are now available.
For further information email
or telephone +61 3 8344 0905.
Alumni Abroad
BANGKOK
Reception with the Chancellor Ms Fay Marles AM and Mr
Don Marles OAM, Wednesday June 30, 6.30 - 8.30pm, Asoke
Room, Sheraton Grande Sukhumvit Hotel, 250 Sukhumvit Road,
Bangkok. Further information and RSVP to Gavin
Brown, Manager Melbourne University Private - Thailand
Office, telephone +66 2 653 0511. Invitations will be
posted to all Melbourne alumni with a current address
in Thailand. Further details will soon be available on
the alumni
website.
KUALA LUMPUR
Annual dinner, Saturday July 3, from 7.30pm, hosted by
the President of the University of Melbourne Alumni in
Malaysia (Kuala Lumpur & Selangor), Dato' Peter Tan, and
the Alumni Committee. The Chancellor Ms Fay Marles AM
and Mr Don Marles OAM will be in attendance as guests
of honour. Venue: Dewan Tun Dr Ismail, Putra World Trade
Centre (PWTC), Kuala Lumpur. Dress code: business attire.
Cost: RM 90.00 per person. Invitations will be posted
to all Melbourne alumni with a current address in Malaysia.
RSVP by June 18: email Ms
Katherine Vong, PKT Cost Management Services (M) Sdn
Bhd.
LAW ALUMNI NETWORK
Register
online to network with other alumni and find out about
news and events.
AUSTRALIAN UNIVERSITY INTERNATIONAL ALUMNI CONVENTION
[AUIAC] 2004
This year's convention will be held in Hong Kong, December
1-3, 2004. All Melbourne alumni are warmly invited to
attend. The University will send representatives and is
planning to arrange a special function for Melbourne alumni
to coincide with the convention. More
information.
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