Dhurata Stenaj - Marketing Officer 00:04
So, now we're going to focus on the Master of Human Resource Management Program and I'm going to hand over to Dr. Mihajla Gavin.
Dr. Mihajla Gavin - Senior Lecturer 00:11
Thanks Dhurata. So ill do just a very quick intro, first of all, all of you know what HR is all about, and why we study it generally, and what I think is particularly interesting about HR, and I'm so glad that we have Bianca, and Bel, helping us out today and really to unpick their experiences of what HR is like for them not only as a student, but an industry as well, and some of the things that they've been able to incorporate from their studies into their the industry experience. But really, when I teach the the HR program, my main message is, "HR is something that every single organisation needs to be managing". So, you know, HR, human resources is all about people at the end of the day, and one of my main messages is "managing people is actually really, really complex to do, people aren't just a piece of furniture or your computer". People have emotions, and we have these, you know, rational but also very emotional sides to us, which is very difficult to actually manage at the end of the day, and probably at the same time. That's why a lot of people actually enjoy studying HR, because there is that kind of complexity to it. And what's also really interesting is HR is one of the key, I would say the key ingredients for success in a business at the same time.
Dr. Mihajla Gavin - Senior Lecturer 01:34
So, it's this really interesting combination of being something quite difficult to manage, but something very critical for an organization's success at the same time and as Dhurata said, like, the way that we are managing workers today is very different and that's really been intensified by the COVID-19 environment, where a lot of people are working from home, a lot of people are working remotely. And in addition, that also brings very unique challenges of how do you actually, you know, manage someone in a in a remote working environment. And we've seen, you know, how HR plays such a critical role in that COVID 19 environment. You know, how do you make sure people are still being engaged and motivated, whilst they are, you know, working from home, for example.
Dr. Mihajla Gavin - Senior Lecturer 02:20
So, if we have a look on the next slide, I'll take you through just a couple of different examples of these are some of the offerings that we do have, if you do choose to study a HR program at UTS Business School. So, at your first level, we do have what's called our graduate certificates, and one of them has a specialisation within HRM. That really only takes up about half of the year, but really is a bit of a taste start to introduce you to some of the most fundamental skills and the most fundamental knowledge that you, you will need if you do choose to become a HR practitioner so that's kind of like the, the taster option at that at that level. And then we have what's called our Graduate Diploma in HR that takes about a year. When you develop a bit more of the knowledge, a bit more of the fundamental skills in HR, and really starting to develop your expertise within the field. And then as I said, the HR master's program is really our most popular and that's really where you're developing your expertise. So, we basically pitch the masters to people in industry, who might be current managers, but really want to be extending their knowledge and their practice within HR, and getting some more of those fundamental skills around HR. And being able to level up to a degree where you can actually engage within decision making within organisations and being able to provide more strategic advice to more senior people in your organisation about really important HR decisions as well. There's also the capacity to do an extension of your masters of HR so that then takes two years, full time to actually do so. And then we also have the MBA program as well, which is a little bit different from you know, just purely studying HR, it's a bit more of a broader suite of, of management skills, but you can choose to do a HR specialisation within that.
Dr. Mihajla Gavin - Senior Lecturer 04:23
So, this is a bit of an overview of some of the core subjects and also the elective subjects that you can enrol in within those different HR options that were presented on the previous slide. So, you'll see on this slide we have a few a few subjects which are really, really specialist within the HR field. So, for example, those top ones there, the first for undergrad search, we have diversity and inclusion, we have HRM future of work and industrial relations as well. So, these are really the core fundamental subjects you need to know about if you're choosing to learn a bit more about HR, or also trying to develop that expertise within HR. And then you'll see as you sort of progress through, if you choose to do the grad diploma or choose to do the masters of HR, there's a couple of extra subjects to do on top of that, as well. So really great ones about you know, managing change, for instance, which has mentioned, you know, when this time of turbulence and change, how do you manage workers within a very complex working environment?
Dr. Mihajla Gavin - Senior Lecturer 05:34
Now, one of our newest subjects, which we've just delivered, this particular semester is called "Business and Social Impact". I'm actually teaching that subject at the, the undergrad level. But it's a fantastic subject, where you get to learn about how, you know, "what is your capacity to be a responsible business leader within organisations? And how can you drive really important social and environmental issues that businesses need to be thinking very carefully and very critically about today? So, you'll be able to develop some of those key skills of what does it mean to be a responsible leader, how do you exercise ethical and socially responsible decision making within organisations as well.
Dr. Mihajla Gavin - Senior Lecturer 06:21
So those are the subjects that we do have on offer. And as I said, depending upon which particular offering you choose, and the extent to which you want to be gaining deeper specialist knowledge and expertise within HR. That sort of determines, which might be the best option for you out of those particular offerings. And finally, just on the last slide, as well. So Dhurata also mentioned the, the accreditation, the accreditation at the UTS Business School does have generally which basically tells employers that the programs, the offerings that we do have are accredited, are recognised by employers that you might choose to work for within the future. And our prograns are also accredited by an organisation called "AHRI: the Australian Human Resources Institute," which also essentially tells employers that you have the right skills, the right expertise, to be working within the HR profession, in particular, which is really fantastic.
Dr. Mihajla Gavin - Senior Lecturer 07:33
So, I reckon I might hand it back to you, if that's okay Dhurata and it'd be great to jump in hear a bit more from our panel members as well about their experiences studying the program.
Dhurata Stenaj - Marketing Officer 07:44
Okay Mihajla. So, we will go to our most frequently asked questions. So, I guess my first question will be to you Mihajla. You know, what's been going on the past two years? We've gone from fully on campus to fully online, then we started go to hybrid, they went back to online.
Dr. Mihajla Gavin - Senior Lecturer 08:01
Yeah.
Dhurata Stenaj - Marketing Officer 08:01
How is this course going to be delivered this year? I get this question all the time. It's a hard one for me to say, because I just want to say I, it's gonna come back on campus, maybe not. So yeah.
Dr. Mihajla Gavin - Senior Lecturer 08:13
It's really been a moving beast over the last two years as we've been adapting to COVID. So, I guess up until last year, we were pretty much exclusively online, for obvious reasons. But we have seen some shifts this year, in particular in terms of what's being offered online. What's being offered on campus as well. So, for example, I mean, I'm teaching a subject at the moment where half of it is offered as an online experience, and half of it is offered as an on-campus experience and you get to choose as a student, which particular class you want to be enrolling in, at the end of the day. Quite a lot of the time, the information that you need in terms of like lecture content, for example, and readings, that's usually all made available online quite often within our subjects. And then as I said, you do have if you're, if you're enrolled in a particular tutorial, we are making sure that there is an option to either be on campus, particularly if you're a domestic student, and you prefer to come in on campus. Alternatively, there's the online option as well. And that's really helpful if you're, obviously you're an international student and, and not within Australia at the moment, that option is still available. So, we actually are seeing a bit of a shift back and a shift out of the COVID environment to be providing a bit more choice and a bit more flexibility to suit if you prefer to be on campus and have an on-campus experience or if you prefer to be studying, and particularly if you're managing, you know full time work, for example.
Dhurata Stenaj - Marketing Officer 09:49
I'm gonna go to Bianca. So, "UTS is really well known for its focus on innovation in teaching, particularly in our learning technology". Can you, i guess from your student perspective, give us an idea of what, what can students can expect from this call.
Bianca Carrozzo - Master of HRM Student 10:04
As someone who started her post grad experience online. I would say that UTS has used technology extremely well, especially with the programs in Canva. Canva, Canva has been a brilliant tool to help myself who works full time as well, stay up to date with modules, stay up to date with lectures, stay up to date with additional resources. So as a mature age student, even though I probably don't look like a mature age student, what's great about using Canva, as well as zoom, and all the other resources we have is that you still feel the support virtually. So, I've actually really enjoyed the online experience. As well as the lecturers.They're really responsive and really reactive to your questions. So, you definitely feel supported if you do need to have, say, for example, an extension, or you're unsure about an assessment, or you're unsure about the content. You really feel that community environment, which is, I think, really rare to UTS. Which definitely made me feel, I would say supportive, but also connected during the pandemic as well.
Dhurata Stenaj - Marketing Officer 11:12
How would you describe how academics and teaching staff work with students during the course?
Bianca Carrozzo - Master of HRM Student 11:18
Yeah, definitely. So, the staff are actually really knowledgeable, they're kept up to best practices, which is great when you're trying to go and enter an industry, or, you know, look for that progression from junior HR to further on. It's really great to know, best practices so when something does come up at work, you're like, "You know what, I'm actually learning this, let me try and implement it not just halfway, but to the best practice that the teachers have discussed with you".
Bianca Carrozzo - Master of HRM Student 11:49
Also, all had experience in the workforce as well, which I think brings that credibility behind what they say as well. Which I think is huge in our world in HR. You need to build that trust and credibility. So, it was great to see it from the teachers as well. The students, it was extremely varied, because you learned so much from all of them. So, there was people that hadn't entered HR yet. For example, like Bianca, when she started with her course, she had an intern HR yet, so she was quite junior to that aspect. And then I had come in, I had about four and a half years experience. And I was working with people that you know, were HR directors. So, it was just all that knowledge bank and working together. It was highly collaborative space, intended. There were also people that had never worked a day in their life. They had just always studied, which is fantastic to hear that perspective as well.
Dhurata Stenaj - Marketing Officer 12:44
I'm gonna go to you Mihajla. "What do you think of these courses are designed for career change, or career progression?" A lot of people are very interested about what's next for me in my career.
Dr. Mihajla Gavin - Senior Lecturer 12:54
Yeah, I think it's, it is a little bit of both. So, I think if you're like, you've just finished an undergrad degree, for example, and you're sort of thinking what next? I think some of those, you know, the grad cert, the grad diploma is really good to get a bit of a taste of the program. Plus, also, you know, if you're thinking about, okay, maybe I've done a, you know, HR major within my undergrad studies, for example, maybe I've got a bit of industry experience now and I'm thinking about sort of what's next within my career. That's where I think the masters of HR is really effective at the same time. So, I think they're kind of is that your potential to say, okay, maybe I'm not working in HR, but it sort of interests me, then you've got an option available to you. But also, if you if you're maybe working within HR, if you're doing a management role already, how can I kind of level up to that next step? And that's probably where the master s is perfect in that respect. But maybe if Bianca, do you want to maybe share a little bit about how you kind of also made that transition within your field?
Bianca Carrozzo - Master of HRM Student 14:01
Yes. So, when I first started the grad diploma, I actually was an executive assistant, an automated accounting firm, and I started getting involved in the recruitment process, and also the documentation, just ad hoc HR tasks and actually really enjoyed it. So, I chose the grad diploma, similar to what Mihajla said, to kind of dip my toes to see if I would enjoy but also I thought it was a great opportunity to kind of have another tool or skill in my toolkit. And I actually loved it so much that I transitioned from being an executive assistant to a HR consultant early in 2021. And a lot of the core subjects and the core skill sets I learned from the grad diploma really helped me kind of be an HR consultant from the day dot and it actually strengthened my ability to add credibility as someone who was just starting in HR and I loved it so much that I, like I said, transition from the grad diploma which I I graduated this year with distinction to the Masters, which is only 24 credits of credit points. So, for me, I really felt like it was an achievable goal, and I can't wait to be like Berlin walking on the UTS stage getting my little testimonial with pride.
Dhurata Stenaj - Marketing Officer 15:19
A lot of people ask, "Oh, should I be doing MBA and specialise in HRM? Or should I? Or should I do a Master's of HRM?" So, in your opinion, I guess, is it better to do a master's in HRM? Or would you do an MBA? So, I guess, what are the differences? And why would you do it? Right?
Dr. Mihajla Gavin - Senior Lecturer 15:39
Yeah, definitely. And I think it is, it is a personal decision to make at the end of the day, in terms of which degree and where you sort of where you're where you want to be seeing your career trajectory actually going. My view would be, if you're thinking about becoming a more general senior leader within an organisation, that's probably where the MBA would be the better option because you don't, you don't only study HR within that you study a range of other sort of specialty areas, as well. So, you get a much broader understanding of different functions within an organisation, and how to be a leader within those different areas. Versus for example, if you're studying the masters of HR, that's purely let's say, for example, if you want to be an HR manager, or have a specialist area in a stream of HR, like recruitment, or training and development or diversity, and working within an HR department, that's probably the better option for you. So, it is a personal decision at the end of the day, in terms of where you where you see your career going. Do you see it purely within HR? Or do you see yourself as a more general manager within an organisation, but those are probably the the biggest distinctions between them.
Dr. Mihajla Gavin - Senior Lecturer 16:56
While you're studying the course are there opportunities to work with real organisations at all? Any of this to Bianca or Belen or even yourself in the Mihajla? You wanted to start off? Maybe?
Belen Pancorbo - Master of HRM Alumni 17:07
Yeah, definitely, I'm happy to talk about that. A couple of terms ago, we actually did an industry project research assignment in which we were actually required to go out to an organisation, assess a certain challenge that that they ha. In which we conducted various interviews, focus groups, and collated at all to provide recommendations and solutions that our organisation could undertake. I was very fortunate to work for a not for profit, to be working with a not for profit. And I do believe that the recommendations and solutions that we provided them were really helpful and they could take on board. At that level, it wasn't a requirement, no have you need $3 million to just fix it. It was, you know, these small changes will make a huge significant improvement.
Belen Pancorbo - Master of HRM Alumni 17:29
Also, at UTS, I was extremely fortunate to partake in another panel in which I was able to network with industry leaders. So, one of them worked for Unilever and I've been able to network, and she's kept me up to date on number of things, she probably touch back base with her again. But it's great to see what other industry leaders are doing in that space. So, you definitely have the opportunity to connect with other organisations, you also have the opportunity to undertake an internship. You definitely have the opportunity to work with many industry leaders out there and organisations.
Dhurata Stenaj - Marketing Officer 18:28
That's awesome. That's very good. Bianca, did you do an internship, or did you do research?
Bianca Carrozzo - Master of HRM Student 18:33
So, I'm actually doing the research report next semester. But Belen and I did the same organisation because we're in the same group. So, what Berlin said is completely accurate. It's really great with the assignments we have, that the lectures and the shape of the course actually want us to critique industry leaders and company. So, this semester, as well, I'm actually doing the new course, business and social impact. And one of the assignments I've just completed as a group project was, we had to dissect the Corporate Social Responsibility report of a major company. And so, as a group, we had to figure out what were the weak, what were the shortcomings and actually provide recommendations from a global but also a back yard perspective. So definitely the theory that you are reading, you actually practice through dissecting, understanding and providing recommendations to a real-life scenario, or in this case business.
Bianca Carrozzo - Master of HRM Student 19:30
I guess, this is a leading question. "So what are the career prospects once I finish this course?" So, both yourself and Belen especially with you working full time, so I guess the career there's a great career prospect. Belen did you want to maybe start off there?
Belen Pancorbo - Master of HRM Alumni 19:45
This sort of links back to a question that behaviour instead, I knew I wanted to take the next step in my education piece, based on the trends that i could see within the next five to 10 years. So, I knew I wanted to undertake Master's or MBA or HR was up in the air however, my diploma and my degree are both based in business management. So, I felt like I needed to specialise in the Masters. Couldn't just keep it general the whole way through. So that's why I specialised in the HR side. Now, when and the reason I took the step to do Masters, is you will look in adverts for entry roles. It was bachelor's degrees, not even required or working towards now you look at them, and all of them pretty much say either working towards or must already have it. So, looking in my future, when I want to get into management shortly, I do believe that the next five to 10 years, management role descriptions will require a master's, that's why I wanted to get ahead of game instead of when everyone starts joining. I'll have it so; I'd be the best candidate to just step in and do it.
Belen Pancorbo - Master of HRM Alumni 20:54
For your career progression, it is there it's depending on what you want to do, it will help you focalize because you will gain experience and visibility of our other areas of HR. HR is massive. So, for example, it may Mihajla IR, Industrial Relations subject which provide me that insight. So, my previous work was very hard, very unionised. My previous one after that was far from it. So, it gave me that visibility. We did a bit of diversity and inclusion, change management, corporate responsibility. So, you see how broad HR is. So, it helps you really focus which line you want to go to within your own career, just because you have that exposure and theoretical perspectives in which can assist you to make a decision later on.
Bianca Carrozzo - Master of HRM Student 21:45
I think for me as well, the decision to do the master s was also personal because as you know, I think Australia is a very diverse society. And I think being a female myself, I felt that my grandparents and especially my grandmother's before me, like they didn't get the same educational opportunities that I was able to get. And so, for me, I kind of wanted to honour them. And then I don't know, strive, strive to me to always get my education and so I thought if I had the opportunity to make HR accessible to everyone, and also kind of de stigmatise HR being lazy department, I think that's definitely true. And definitely, you know, agreeing in the hall wanting to like definitely to stigmatise it because as you can definitely use HR as a very valuable and strong and strong strategic partner in any business. And so, what's great about the course is that it makes HR accessible. But it also allows you to kind of understand HR from your perspective. So, like what Belen said, you can definitely specialise but you can also understand the breadth of HR that we definitely aren't a lazy department and definitely no two days are the same.
Dhurata Stenaj - Marketing Officer 22:57
I guess what I get a lot of questions. Is what are the assessments like? are there exams? is a lot of group work? Are you able to give us a bit of an idea of exactly what people can expect when they start the course?
Bianca Carrozzo - Master of HRM Student 23:09
Yep, I would expect at least three assignments per subject. So that's about average, and it's really well spaced out. So, it'll be at week six, week eight, nine, and then week twelve. It's very well-spaced out, you've got plenty of time to review the work, ask questions of your teachers, do the readings and truly prepare. It is some subjects are more group work, but I would only say it'd be one of the assignments out of all of them. The other ones tend to be more individual. There are other classes that you know, weekly quizzes instead. So, you've got a small reading, and we'll have a quick multiple-choice quiz. I love those.
Bianca Carrozzo - Master of HRM Student 23:48
So, it just depends. Every teacher is different. Like there was another assignment, which I absolutely loved, and I've told the teacher various times. It was a simulation of HR in which week by week, you had a different challenge and you had to see how many staff left? Have you retained staff? How introducing of certain policies impacted the workplace? So, I know one of the weeks was, there was an incident in of WHS, what do you do? And one of them say make everyone do 15 hours of the WHS online modules. And other one was, just ignore it. And obviously, that one of my colleagues chose the 15 hour one, and then retention went out the door. So, you kind of get to play around with it. Another option was, do you pay bonuses this year? Do you not? do you increase it? Or do you promote or do you not? So, you've got to have the fun side of things really experiment and critique why you did certain things and then learn from why you shouldn't have done certain things. Say it was great, great simulation, I'll say that. Not for your life experience.
Belen Pancorbo - Master of HRM Alumni 24:57
From a online perspective, how did you find the group work?
Bianca Carrozzo - Master of HRM Student 25:00
I kind of strategically chose people that were active in class. And obviously, especially during a webinar, I do want to share my tips and tricks because, you know. Studying post grad virtually, I was actually speaking to a younger cousin, my cousins of mine who started actually started their undergrad. And they were like, Bianca, I haven't met any friends. And I was like, what are you talking about, like, I have a whole cohort of friends from like, my first semester. So, for me, the group work wasn't challenging, you just have to speak out. So, if you have a group member or a certain group that aren't participating, especially because we did a lot of, of the breakout rooms on Zoom. Just making sure that you're vocal and making sure that you kind of advocate for yourself, because you are, you are paying a decent amount to get a decent education. So, but from a technological standpoint, the technology and the resources were outstanding.
Dr. Mihajla Gavin - Senior Lecturer 25:56
Just add to that, as well. So, it's a bit of a technical term, but at UTS, business school was shifting towards what's called authentic assessment, which basically and Belen gave a really good illustration of what that sort of means. But how do you actually have assessment tasks, which, you know, you need to do to be passing the course. But how can you assess students in a way where it's actually a real-life things that you're working on? It's not just let's just write an essay about a particular question. It's how can you use assessment in a way where you learn the skills, you learn the knowledge to be a practitioner within the future. And like Bianca said, you know, analysing a CSR report, like that's something that you have to be doing, as a manager overall, or doing, you know, making tough decisions as a HR manager, and you get a simulation, you know, that's, that's great, but this, this is real life issues that you have to be dealing with as well. In one of my IR subjects, we analyse a enterprise agreement, and we say, "Okay, what did the union do? What did management do in this case?", so they will try to design assessment in a way we actually get to gain a skill and the knowledge of things that you literally have to be doing in the workplace every single day.
Belen Pancorbo - Master of HRM Alumni 27:06
Mihajla talked about how it's real-life assignments, I definitely do felt it in the IR, and quite often went back to your notes on this. So, when I started this role, we moved away from the workplace agreement to the modern award. And there was a lot of intricate things of our long-standing employees who were on AWA's when technically on their workplace. A whole mess. Which Mihajla had actually very detailed spoken to us about and I was like, i don t know if i'll use this because I'm not in IR, guess what, I did as a generalist. And I've referred on her notes very strongly throughout the whole process. And I definitely think the successful move from the workplace instrument through to the modern award was as smooth as what I think it went, due to Mihajla. So, you definitely learn a lot in university that you do apply at work and you'll be surprised as to how much.
Dhurata Stenaj - Marketing Officer 28:05
And I guess my final question would ben and we get this a lot. "How much time should I devote to study? How can I balance my work personal life study, as well as you know, going on campus? I think I'm gonna ask all three of you because I think I'm going to have three different answers. So, who would like to start first?
Dhurata Stenaj - Marketing Officer 28:25
It depends on what marks you want. It all comes down to that. So, I'll probably don't recommend doing what I did of working full time plus studying full time. But you definitely need a lot of time management skills for each subject. You need to attend classes and watch the lectures and do the readings. You probably need about two and a half hours to three hours per subject solely on that, every week. Then, on top of that you need to do your assignments, and probably do some research on the side if you don't understand certain aspects of it, ask for feedback or anything like that. So, I would recommend four or five hours per subject per week, I'd say for a distinction average. In saying that everyone learns differently. Everyone requires different time skills for everyone. So, it's just whatever works for you. You just need to put the effort in to get the marks you want.
Bianca Carrozzo - Master of HRM Student 29:22
I have done full time/part time. I did full time accidentally because I thought usually students do three subjects per semester. That's not the case. Um, but I would say it's similar to what, similar to what Belen said, um, what really worked well for me was obviously just allocating the nights that I had lectures and just kind of doing the lectures and then I absolutely love the library utilities at UTS. You'll see me in building seven almost every weekend because I thoroughly enjoy the environment. So usually what I would do is just do the lectures throughout the week and then on the weekend spend either a Sunday or Saturday at the library. For me, it kind of was important to have that work life balance. So just making sure you provide even a day or an afternoon on the weekend, to kind of have your own personal time. Similar to Belen said, and it depends on what grades you want. But also I believe, in balance. So, I would say just doing your lectures and maybe a day and a half, or usually a day at uni, or full day of uni work during the weekend is achievable.
Dr. Mihajla Gavin - Senior Lecturer 30:26
Yeah, I'm curious to add to that as well. I mean, with particularly with a lot of the lecture material being on online, now there is that sort of flexibility, you can sort of listen to it at your own pace, your own sort of leisure, which is really fantastic. And usually within subjects as well, it's quite clear in terms of the sort of minimum you need to do so it'd be like, you know, listening to the lecture doing a reading, but there's also, you know, extra things that you can do on top of that as well. But at the end of the day, it's really what, you know, how much you want to be putting in is how much you kind of get out of it at the end of the day.
Dhurata Stenaj - Marketing Officer 30:59
Thank you, that s great tips there. Okay, let's see, we have a bit of time, and we actually haven't had any questions from the audience. I'm going to ask each of you if you could give us one top tip, just one, for success on the course. Mihajla, how about we start with you.
Dr. Mihajla Gavin - Senior Lecturer 31:16
Gosh, that's so hard. Um, I would to be honest, I would say, and it probably goes back to the, the question that we just had before. I guess once you're in a particular degree, making sure that you're applying yourself as much as possible and getting in, getting involved with things, which is what Bianca said as well, you know, speaking up, if you have an opinion about something, get involved, no, share it, if you're not sure about something, ask someone. I think that's probably the best way that you can get the most out of your studies, particularly if you're studying online. Sometimes it can feel like it's a bit more distant. But as much as you can get involved, ask questions, share your own opinion, share how things work in your workplace, that really is what makes the degree so much more valuable. And you'll remember, you'll remember those experiences forever.
Bianca Carrozzo - Master of HRM Student 32:03
I would say, get organised like kind of Belen said that she was able to affect effectively use, you know, her industrialization notes for, you know, her real-life jobs. So, the more you kind of organise yourself and make sure you kind of immerse yourself in the content, the better. Because you'll actually regain that in your brain and it's really funny when you're actually doing like your job in HR and something just pops up from a subject that helps you with the situation and you're like, yes, like all the hours of studying and all the hours of colour coding, like it does help you retain the information for a lifetime. So, I would say just get organised.
Belen Pancorbo - Master of HRM Alumni 32:44
I'd probably say find yourself a buddy. That one buddy. Organise classes together with them, like there's i actually ended up having two in which, when one wouldn't be in certain subjects they had already completed or one of the people were actually doing an MBA, I will be guaranteed to have a buddy in the other class. So, we moved and I did every single class throughout the whole masters with that one buddy. So, when you have to work with each other, we kept each other accountable and he kept the light nice and easy. So sometimes you'd have three assignments due at once and I'd be like, haven't started it because I'm so unorganised. And, you know, knowing that they're on the other side of the screen or on Zoom also working on it. You know how you're going? they're like, i got two words in this last three hours. Great. So, it keeps it light. I definitely recommend a buddy for the whole process. Find your buddy. Stick with them. Great.
Dhurata Stenaj - Marketing Officer 33:40
Excellent tips there ladies. Thank you so much for your time tonight. If you have any further questions that we haven't covered today, you can also visit the site by again uts.edu.au or you can also book a one-on-one consultation with our student recruitment staff, which is at the moment myself or you could also email us directly at business@uts.edu.au.
