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Join the BEL Career Mentoring Program

The BEL Career Mentoring Program connects highly motivated students from UQ's Faculty of Business, Economics and Law with experienced industry professionals. The Program helps mentees to design and build their future career, complementing their academic knowledge with their mentor’s experiences, industry insights, practical advice and networks. Join the Program now!

Employability

• Book in with a BEL Career Advisor | Appointments available in-person or online
• Visa and career advice | Request a one-on-one appointment
• Register for an upcoming employability event 
• Employability Essentials | Online modules

Not all opportunities are listed on eCorner. Visit StudentHub for more job opportunities here.

Other resources

• UQ Careers Directory
• BEL Career Checklist - domestic students - download now
• BEL Career Checklist - international students - download now
• VMock - the smart resume checker now available to BEL students
• Online employability course – EMPLOY101x "Unlocking your employability"
• Top 10 tips for writing your first resumé
• CareerHacks Podcast - Opportunity rarely waits: Your career success begins now!
• Worldonomics Podcast | A podcast brought to you by the UQES diversity team 

Explore an abundance of stories on UQ's Careers Directory. Search and read more stories here.

• Check back later for upcoming events

School of Economics Student Societies

Want to make awesome friends and expand your peer network, learn new skills and strengths, attend cool and diverse events, and be given the opportunity to become a leader? Join a student society today!
 

Other opportunities

• Student-Staff Liaison Committee (SSLC) | Find out more
• Student Adviser drop-in sessions | Available all semester 

[Read] A TikTok account of one’s own: BookTok and the commodification of reading

UQES's latest blog post follows Emma Searle’s descent into the world of BookTok and all its conflicting implications for what it means to be a reader. Explore how BookTok has created marketing moguls from your favourite authors, and how the publishing industry responds to this commodification.

[Listen] Medicine to Markets: A Medicine Student's Leap into Quant Finance

Join the UQES diversity team as they sit down with Franklin, a former medicine student who made a dramatic shift into the world of quantitative finance. They'll dive into the pivotal decisions that guided his career change, the role of luck in his unexpected transition, and the search for meaning in a field vastly different from his original path.

[Read] What's it really like to study economics at UQ? 

From global politics and poverty to climate change, economics is all about how we use resources to address needs and understand the decisions we make. Hear UQ students and alumni share why they chose to study economics and what the experience is like. Read article.

[Email] Graduating student stories 

Do you know someone graduating this semester with an amazing story to tell? Whether they've launched a startup, secured their dream job at the UN, beaten the odds to complete their degree, or have an interesting background, we’d love to learn more. Email the BEL Faculty Communications team and fill us in.

[Listen] What is Pillar Talk? – Pillar Talk

The UQ Politics, Philosophy and Economics Society has launched a new podcast! Pillar Talk is a podcast about politics, philosophy, and economics - the three pillars of the humanities. It will take complex ideas about the world around us and make them accessible for the everyday listener. Listen now!

[Listen] BEL Study Tunes playlist

Need some study motivation? We've got you covered! Press play on these study tunes to get your work done in style. Check them out now.