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I was on the Curtin website and I've seen a link to the Curtin Careers Centre and I
wanted to be a bit more proactive about my university degree, I wanted to see what extra
curriculum things I could do while I was also studying and the Careers Centre seemed like
a good place to start. I got in contact with the Curtin Careers Centre
because I wanted to speak to someone who had more insight in giving advice to a student
who was unsure of what degree to study, I had started my double degree in public relations
and professional writing but I wasn't sure if I wanted to continue with it so I was seeking
a bit of professional advice on what my options were if I was to stay in the degree or if
I was to swap and change and try something new, seeing what was actually available and
what courses were out there are Curtin. Now that I've finished my double degree in
public relations, I am doing an internship on the Chevron City to Surf so looking at
event work and media relations which I'm enjoying so I'd like to go down that track at the moment.
In hindsight I should have got on to this internship in my third or second year at university
so I wasn't doing my internship now that I've finished, I wish I had got involved and had
a bit more experience in this field before I'd actually finished my degree and finished
studying. If I was to give advice to a first and second
year it would be to get in contact with the support that is available through Curtin early
on in your degree, so if I could go back and start again I would be getting involved with
Curtin Volunteers and the JCLA program which is what I did but then I needed to build on
that and get some work experience out of it which is what I should have done and that
would be my advice to pass on to first and second years is to get in early, be proactive
about it, get some work experience under your belt in the degree that you're studying and
the Careers Centre is a great way to get started in doing that and getting some support.
Before I came to uni and started my double degree in public relations I wasn't quite
sure if this was the path I wanted to go down so the advice that I would give to anybody
else in my position whose not sure of the degree they're studying would be to try everything
that's out there, get involved, get volunteering, do as much experience and extra curriculum
activities as you can and the Careers Centre is probably one of the best places to start
and try and just expose yourself to many different fields that are out there in particular for
your degree if you're not sure that's what you want to study.