The close of semester 2 sees the conclusion of a large and successful year of Commerce Clubs and Societies activities.

We’d like to thank all Clubs and Societies for their contribution to the experience of thousands of Commerce students through a thriving and evolving calendar of events. If you weren’t involved with a Commerce student organisation this year, we strongly encourage you to investigate the links below and consider enriching your degree through involvement with Clubs and Societies in 2010.

Further information about Commerce Clubs and Societies can be found at http://www.ecom.unimelb.edu.au/experience/societies.html

The following provides a brief overview of just some of the activities that took place this year:

AIESEC

• AIESEC Victoria State Conference 2009 – April
• Developing Leaders Day 2009 – April & July
• Quicken Event – May & October
• AIESEC Australia National Conference 2009 – July
• Entrepreneurship Panel – September
• IE Business School Event – September
• Microsoft Event – October

Accounting Students’ Association (ASA)

• ASA Graduate Night – opportunity for the accounting firms to meet and attract potential graduates
• ANZ BBQ – enables students to learn more about working for ANZ, and the opportunities that lie outside the Big 4 accounting firms
• ASA Vacation Night – allows the accounting firms to meet and attract students in their penultimate year, who are keen on doing summer internships
• Cover Letters & Resumes presentation by Careers & Employment – provides students with advice preparing for job applications
• Presentation on CPA Resources by CPA Australia – informs students on what the CPA qualification can offer students
• Accounting & Finance in Industry – informs students of potential career paths outside of the Big 4 accounting firms

Financial Management Association of Australia (FMAA)

With over 30 sponsor firms and almost 900 members at the University of Melbourne, the FMAA has had a very successful 2009. This year, the FMAA ran numerous events, including:

• Down-to-Business Luncheon
• Financial Services Evening
• Inspiring Women Workshop and Panel
• Professional Services Evening
• Professional Development Week
• Corporate Cocktails

The genuine value offered to members underlies our continual growth and stamps the Association as the largest professionally focused student organisation in Australia. The FMAA looks forward to another big year in 2010 where we’ll continue to be a bridge between students and employers.

Information Systems Student Society (ISSS)

ISSS is committed to the efforts of providing fellow Information Systems and IT-centric students an exciting year of social events and career-advancing opportunities. This year has seen numerous events including:

• ISSS 1920s Gangster Ball: an extravagant evening of fancy dressing, glorious food and drink while dancing the night away
• Corporate Cocktail: Mingling with Deloitte, Ernst & Young, Accenture, Pitchers Partners, ANZ…just to name a few.
• Industry Panel: leading industry firms in IT providing advice on what you can do with a degree in IT and how to get there.
• Deloitte Consulting Case Study: seeing what it takes to become an consultant in IT based on real case studies
• Information sessions throughout the year with firms such as Deloitte, Ernst & Young
• Charity Night: with funds going to Oxfam
• BBQs, BBQs and more BBQs!

Students In Free Enterprise (SIFE)

• Awarded 1st Runner Up at the annual SIFE Australia National Championship in July. This is an annual forum in which SIFE teams from universities around the country showcase the impact that their projects are having on the communities in which they operate. The competition is judged by over 200 business leaders from the countries largest corporations including KPMG, Cadbury, Coca-Cola Amatil, Qantas, Woolworths and HSBC.
• We have launched a series of professional training workshops, mentoring programs and vision days.
• Think.Act.Green has involved 5 Victorian secondary schools in the pilot phase of the project, which culminated in an environmental proposal competition last week. T.A.G has enlisted the support of Shell, Origin Energy and Yarra Valley Water to develop a program of seminars, skills-based tutorials and an inter-school competition.
• Nexus Abroad have sent 2 SIFE students to Ghana to establish a sustainable income stream for an orphanage in the Manya Krobo district.

Student Entrepreneurs | Agents of Change

$1K Competition (March 2009)

• Concept competition
• 5 x $200 winners
• Open to all Melbourne University students

Start-Up Camp (April 2009)

• All-weekend camp in The Spot building
• 30 students created and launched 6 businesses in 48 hours

Entrepreneurs Week 2009 (August 2009)

• 7 days of entrepreneurial activities
• 18 events ran throughout the week
• Innovators’ Challenge – teams of students get 1 week to create ‘value’ out of paint (this year’s mystery object) and document the implementation on a video

IdeaPitch 09 (October 2009)

• Elevator pitching competition
• Open to all university students in Victoria
• Finalists pitch in front of a live audience of investors and entrepreneurial community
• $1000 in prizes

Source: Commerce Student Centre

All continuing Bachelor of Commerce and Bachelor of Commerce double degree students are required to re-enrol for 2010. Please observe the following dates for re-enrolment:

Timely Re-enrolment - Monday 26 October – 5pm Friday 20 November
If you complete your re-enrolment during this period your place for 2010 will be secure.

Late Re-enrolment – Monday 25 November – 5pm Friday 4 December
If you complete your re-enrolment during this period, you will secure your place for 2010 but will incur a $250 Late Re-enrolment Fee.

Failure to re-enrol – Saturday 5 December
If you have not re-enrolled by this date, the University will assume that you are not returning to study in 2010 and will cancel your enrolment.

For further information see http://www.ecom.unimelb.edu.au/students/undergrad/selection.html

Source: Commerce Student Centre

The Sustainability Collective is seeking inspired and passionate individuals and groups to contribute to Sustainability Week, to be held in Week 4, Semester 1, 2010.

Sustainability Week will showcase the interrelationship between the social, environmental and economic aspects of sustainability. As part of the Week, we are organising a series of events, practical activities and lectures to promote sustainability on campus.

If you have a great idea that you would like to contribute, or a sustainable event that you think might fit in with the theme of sustainability, we would love to hear from you.

You can contact us at our website, www.sustainabilitycollective.org, or via email at contact@sustainabilitycollective.org.

Source: SALP ALG24 Sustainability Collective

University house is seeking tutors to provide academic support in first and second year subjects, including breadth subjects.

International House is a co-educational residential college of The University of Melbourne located about one kilometre north of the main university campus. The student body comprises about 270 students, of whom about 60% are overseas students. Most of the residents are undergraduates at the University of Melbourne, although a significant minority study at RMIT and Monash Pharmacy.

International House has an establishment of 16 residential tutors, employed largely on the basis of academic need. Residential tutors have academic, pastoral and administrative responsibilities, and have a leadership role within the residential community.

Further details can be found via the university’s HR website: http://www.hr.unimelb.edu.au/careers/job_search

Source: International House

Dell holds competition to change the world.

The University of Texas and Dell are inviting Aussie Uni and TAFE students to take part in a global competition to generate ingenious ideas to change the world. Individuals or groups of University or TAFE students are challenged to submit a plan that combines creativity and innovation to tackle a pressing social issue and win US$50,000 to put that plan into action!

Entrants are asked to push for positive change at home, or anywhere in the world, with a social innovation that tackles a social problem to help every human reach their potential. There is no limit to the imagination and any significant social issue can be addressed in this competition.

The competition is open worldwide and students have until 1 March 2010 to develop their plans.

How it works: Students work in teams or as individuals to enter their social innovation online before the deadline. From the initial ballot of entries, a small group of semifinalist teams are chosen to write a venture plan and record a 3-minute video pitch of their idea. From the semifinalists three teams are selected as finalists and invited to Austin, Texas to pitch live in front of a panel of esteemed judges.

One winner is chosen and awarded US$50,000 as seed funding to launch their venture.

You be the judge! Along with the student competitors, anyone can comment and vote on the ideas submitted into the competition. In each round of the competition, people can vote on the projects they like the most by promoting them up in the ranking. It’s also possible to leave comments and suggestions on the ideas you find most intriguing and add your expertise.

For more information, including deadlines and eligibility, please go to: http://www.dellsocialinnovationcompetition.com/LearnMore

For the competition facebook group, please go to: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=39273666901

Source: Melbourne GSM

The Sustainability Collective invites you to participate in SPACE09, a photography and art competition that aims to promote sustainability on campus.

Theme: Sustainability – Crisis Or Opportunity?
When: Entries close 7th December
Prizes:
$250 for Best Photograph
$250 for Best Artwork/Design
Exhibition of all submissions during Sustainability Week 2010

Further details can be found at the Sustainability Collective website:
http://www.sustainabilitycollective.org

Source: SALP ALG24 Sustainability Collective

Are you a student (any level) aged 15 – 25 years?
Do you have an essay/article/review that you are particularly proud of?

Perspective wants to hear from you!

Perspective is the United Nation Youth Association’s (UNYA) Journal of youth writing on international affairs domestic policy. The purpose of the journal is to provide an outlet for the views of young people who have a unique perspective and an intrinsically fresh approach to a range of global issues. It is quickly becoming the ‘place’ to be published, and we hope it will become a leading voice for young people concerned with all things international.

UNYA hopes that Perspective will stimulate foreign and domestic policy discourse that is sophisticated, challenging and inclusive. It has an international circulation through subscription services such as Informit and will go to print!

Perspective publishes articles on a broad range of subjects. These include but are not limited to:

• Human Rights
• International Relations
• The United Nations and International Institutions
• Political Economy
• Defence and Security
• Development
• Conflict Studies
• Political Philosophy
• Australian Foreign Policy
• All areas of Australian Law
• Comparative Law
• International Law
• Youth Issues and Youth Policy
• Australian Politics

Submitting is easy! Grab our guide to submissions, by emailing Leigh Howard, Perspective editor-in-chief, editor@unya.asn.au
Where can I find out more? Visit www.unya.org.au/perspective and check out Volume 4.

Submission deadline: December 14, 2009.

Source: Leigh Howard, Perspective Editor.

Shaking Hands With A Serial Killer. A free public lecture.

Psychologists sometimes advocate taking a ‘credulous attitude’, in which the client’s perspective is ‘always right’ or inherently valid. Essentially, an attempt is made to see the world though the other person’s eyes. However, are there any limits to such an approach? For example, to what extent is it possible, and useful, to take a credulous attitude to the serial killer or the person who has committed other offences of extreme violence? In considering such questions, this talk will draw upon a range of material, from narratives written by serial killers to data collected from former child soldiers.

Date: Wed, 28th Oct 09
Time: 6.30pm – 7.30pm
Venue: Carillo Gantner Lecture Theatre, Sidney Myer Asia Centre, The University of Melbourne.

Speaker:
Professor David Winter
University of Hertfordshire

Please register your intent to attend the lecture with an email to Finn Mulhall enquiry-psych@unimelb.edu.auor tel (03) 8344 6377.

Limited seats available.

Source: School of Behavioural Science

Want to be more efficient and gain practical accounting skills?

Quicken Australia in partnership with AIESEC is proud to present…

A Quickbooks Professional Workshop!
(the Certificate QB Series)

…a hands-on workshop on Quickbooks, Quicken’s popular accounting software,
and the official accounting software used in accounting courses at the
University of Melbourne and in many small businesses across Australia.

Featuring:
• A professional trainer from Reckon Australia.
• Pay only $20 for a $400 valued workshop!
• A thorough 206-page softcopy manual on Quickbooks (hardcopy manual available for an extra of $10-$15 per person)
• A formal certificate of completion from Reckon Australia.

Where: Spot, Room 314
When: 29 October, 2009; 9.15am-3.15pm

To register, email your name, contact no. and your preference for softcopy or hardcopy manual to sueal@ugrad.unimelb.edu.au to secure your place.

Take the first step to kick start your accounting career today!

Source: AIESEC Melbourne

Courtesy of Paramount Pictures, the Commerce Student Centre have 20 double passes to give away to a special advanced screening of the new documentary from Academy Award winner, Michael Moore, “Capitalism: A Love Story”.

This screening will take place this Wednesday, October 21 at Hoyts Melbourne Central, starting at 6.30pm sharp. To be in the running to win a double pass, simply head to

http://survey.ecom.unimelb.edu.au/TakeSurvey.aspx?SurveyID=l220852

And tell us, in 30 words or less, the best way to enrich the experience of BCom students.

Entries close at 5pm, Tuesday October 20. Winning entrants will be advised via email and will need to be able to pick their tickets up from the Commerce Student Centre between 8.45am and 5.30pm this Wednesday (October 21).

Source: Commerce Student Centre