Enjoy your university life, get out there and learn as much as you can. You never know what you’re truly passionate about until you find yourself unexpectedly immersed at the moment.
There was such a diversity of experiences and knowledge in my cohort. It really did feel like the whakataukī: mā pango, mā whero, ka oti te mahi - nāku te rourou, nāu te rourou, ka ora ai te iwi!
Charlotte Best studied a Bachelor of Commerce (Accounting and Finance) at Victoria University of Wellington and is now an Analyst at Deloitte New Zealand.
I love getting out on site as much as possible and it’s also really good for me to keep up with learning about the practical side of construction in addition to the technical side.
The work that I've been most excited by since working at Suncorp would have to be the innovation events that they run in technology such as Automation April, the Digithon and the Innovation Academy.
My favourite part about the graduate programme was how open the job description is – as I was only in each team for a matter of months, I never got stuck with business-as-usual tasks. This freed me up to spend two years as a sponge, learning about how rail works and how different teams fit together.