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Speed-dating-style event to lure Canberra students into local jobs

Anthony Roberts said. During the event, students will need to showcase why they are a good fit for their preferred company via an elevator pitch to senior executives and founders of participating businesses. Conversely, each of the start-ups and companies will also get an opportunity to deliver a pitch promoting themselves as the place to be for students looking to kick start their MedTech career. Students represent a wide variety of courses and degrees including biomedical engineering, life sciences, pharmacology, mathematics, science, commerce and law. Data61 CEO, Adrian Turner, said the event was an excellent example of government, university, industry and research working together to build the innovation pipeline. Ribit went live in beta in February It has run speed-networking events in Sydney, Canberra, Brisbane and Geelong, where students get a chance to meet with at least six to eight senior company representatives each, including CEOs and founders.

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Its focus is to help university students find good businesses to work with, develop new skills and confidence, while they are studying. Students will also get to meet mentors from industry and government in between meetings and explore how they can improve their interview and presentation skills. The students participating in Get Connected events are a strong example of the quality, diversity and talent available right here on our doorstep. Over startups, innovative companies and government agencies have attended events, made connections through the platform and found skilled students, since February , when Ribit started.

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Speed-dating-style event to lure Canberra students into local jobs. Canberra students are being given six minutes to pitch their skills to local start-up firms in an initiative to keep talent from leaving the Territory. More than 40 jobseekers will be taking part in a series of speed-dating-style meetings with prospective employers offering casual and part-time jobs and internships relating to their studies. Student job-matching platform Ribit has organised the event along with the Canberra Innovation Network.

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Speed networking session to connect students and businesses at UC

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