Macquarie University Careers Directory Profiles

You are an adviser, a counsellor, a cheerleader, a boundary-setter, and on any given day you can be both the best and worst person in the world (if your students had any say, that is!).

I love my team and I am grateful to them because I had to learn how to do my job entirely online. I love that the team is understanding, willing to help me with anything, understanding of the challenges that I may be facing or just willing to explain to me what the feature is so that I can do my job effectively.

The graduate cohort is a wonderful source of social support, and my mentor, buddy, and supervisors have been great sources of insight, guidance, and perspective throughout the year.

As a clerk, you get exposure to great matters – massive commercial deals and important government work.

The best part of my job is that I get such a high level, detailed understanding of the processes within the organisation, despite not being in any managerial position. I then get a fairly open slate to start trying to help those processes along.

Don’t lose your sense of wonder because it keeps you grounded and lets you learn new things throughout your life.

The trainers are always by your side, and they imbibe in you all of the things that you’d been sorely missing - the TW goodies - pair programming, test-driven development, feedback culture - the whole nine yards.