Media and communication
Your course of study and your future career options
- Journalism
- Literary studies
- Media and communication
- Professional and creative writing
- Webmedia
- A day in the life of a Textbook Publisher
- A passion for writing
- Ace Day Jobs - Tourism Journalist
- Deakin's Career Mentoring
- Employability skills - what employers are seeking!
- Employer profile: Grit Media
- Graduate profiles
- How volunteering launched my writing career
- Internships and experiential learning options
- Interview with Steve Cameron, Fiction Writer
- Pick VIC!
- Postgraduate ponderings
- Student associations - more than just a way to meet people
- Top 15 skills that employers want from journalism grads
- Working as a Communications Officer
Getting your foot in the door
- 15 must read blogs for blog writers
- ASA rates for Authors and Illustrators
- Finding work in the journalism industry
- Joining a professional association - why and which one?
- Joining the Victorian Writers Centre
- Screenrights - the audio visual copyright society
- The benefits of networking
- The Melting Pot - collaborate, network and discuss screen projects
- Writing groups - create a network of writing friends that can offer support, advice and a fresh approach to writing
- Writers Australia - event calendar
Last minute tips and support
Links, blogs and fun stuff
- Creating an online portfolio
- Freelancer - browse 'writing' projects
- Going Global - international career guides
- GovernmentCareer - job listings
- Grapevinejobs - media job vacancies
- Mumbrella - everything under Australia’s media, marketing and entertainment umbrella
- Pedestrian Jobs - creative jobs and careers
- ResearchCareer - job listings
- The Communication Blog
- Top Fifty Journalism Blogs
5. Do subjects that you really enjoy, learn how to learn at university level, how to research and how to write more effectively - Andrew McNeil, Yarmouth Group.
4. Focus on your long term benefit. If you aim for big game when you are hunting - the rhinoceros - no-one will blame you if you don't quite make it - Eleanor Stretch, International Society for Krishna Consciousness.
3. Be disciplined and make sure you do all of the required reading! Also participate in the discussion forums as much as possible - Daniel Bruce, Kaplan Aspect.
2. Use your time at uni to explore different styles, stretch your creativity, build confidence in your work and soak up the feedback - Daniel Gray, Photographer.
1. If you're interested in writing, then try and get published as much as you can - Anna Kosmanovski, Freelance Writer.
