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- Hi there.
I'm Henry, and I'm 23, from New Zealand.
I came over here to study pharmacy
as my undergraduate at the University of Sydney.
After practicing for one year, I'm now doing my
Masters of Management at the Sydney University
Business School.
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Yeah, so, this is the quadrangle.
I guess that's Sydney Uni's most memorable,
I guess, landmark, at the university.
This is the original university in Australia,
so it's got a really nice kind of mixture of
these massive sandstone buildings,
as well as really nice, brand new, modern buildings,
which actually kind of projects, and also represents,
how society is in Australia and how it's always developing
and upscaling as well, I guess.
So, this is the Abercrombie Business School,
and it's a pretty brand new kind of building,
built in 2016.
It's got heaps of really cool seminar rooms,
computer labs, that the whole business faculty
get to use.
Yeah, it's got basically a lot of innovative
kind of structures inside, as well,
to have collaboration between the different faculties.
And all in all, I just think it's a
really, really cool place to come study.
I guess growing up in New Zealand,
I'm around people who are always like,
wanting to go overseas.
I saw Sydney, Australia as kind of
the next logical choice, in terms of opportunities,
the diversity and culture, networks,
meeting more people, and just doing a different thing.
The two main things that have really helped me
fit in to Sydney is firstly, the society that they have
with all the different university courses.
Back in my undergrad in pharmacy,
I actually was lucky enough to be the president
of the student society.
Basically, I made so many friends there.
I learned, you know, how to run events,
I had social events, sporting stuff,
and everything that little helps you kind of fit in
and make friends for the future,
as well as network, as well.
As I said before, I have an undergraduate in pharmacy,
and I practiced for a year, but I realized, I guess,
I wanted to do something a little bit different.
I wanted to learn skills that pharmacists
don't normally have, and I came across the
Masters of Management.
So the course itself is only one year,
and it gives you a really good overview
into stuff like finance, accounting, strategy,
project management, and it has a couple of really,
I guess, extraordinary different kind of courses as well,
such as Business in China.
So, I'm heading over to China next week
for a 12 day immersive course, where we study
with a couple of Unis over there,
as well as lots of side visits to different companies
to really learn about how business is done in China
and basically, the cultural differences
and how we can adapt our own experiences there
in the future.
As a registered pharmacist, a lot of people are like,
you know, "This is it."
And that's what I kind of saw coming.
You know, I really enjoy the profession.
I really like being able to help people
and visually see it.
However, doing this course, it's actually allowed me
to branch out and learn different skills
and then work with different firms
that I definitely wouldn't have done before.
It teaches you a lot.
So you get to basically network with
a lot of service firms, that's your Deloitte,
your PWC, some of the banks, so, NAB,
National Australia Bank, Commonwealth Bank,
or consulting firms, that's your McKinseys,
and stuff like that.
And I've actually been lucky enough
to get a job at National Australia Bank.
I'm starting in February.
I mean, another really cool part of this course
and the MBA course is that you get to use
the state of the art facility, smack bang
in the middle of the CBD, next to really, really
big buildings, and essentially, it kind of
gives you a bit of a vibe and puts you in a new environment,
where you wanna, kind of achieve,
'cause you're smack bang here
and there's no other way to do it.
So, it's such an immersive course,
it's such a personal course that I guess
it does really help you build core strengths
and competencies and also put you in touch
with a lot of these companies.
You know, I guess, it's also for a pharmacist,
it's quite a big change, but I think it's a really nice
one year, intensive... really, I guess
as a well-rounded course, you get lots of good advice.
Basically, you'll wanna get employed after this course,
and they've really helped me, helped me achieve that.
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So, this is the number one Oval at Sydney University.
I guess a big part of university
is the extra-curriculars, and I think in Australia,
there's a really strong culture of sports.
It builds camaraderie, and it's just a lot of fun.
So, and at Sydney, I played three years of soccer
for the team through my undergraduate.
And also, especially in rugby,
Sydney and Australia in general have a very big
culture in it, and the Sydney University team
is actually top in New South Wales at the moment.
All right, so this is Wesley College,
and this is a residential college
at the University of Sydney.
I actually spent three really good years here.
And basically, it's a place where,
if you don't come from Sydney, or even if
you come from Sydney, you can live on campus
and everything is fully catered.
There's lot of clubs and societies
that you can join, as well.
And it's basically a really cool place
to meet people and make friends that you have for life.
And in fact, I moved out with three of my best friends
from that stage, from Wesley.
So, Wesley also has lots of, kind of, rooms,
set out around different parts of the campus.
Essentially, it's here to facilitate students
in any tutorials they might have.
So, I tutor here, as well.
I tutor pharmacology and physiology here.
So, students here get free tutorials
to make sure they get one step ahead of the game,
I guess, academically.
Also rooms like this are used for any sort of meetings,
societies and clubs that might happen,
or even network events.
So, Wesley has a mentoring program
that pairs students up with people
who've already graduated from here, or alumni
who have, I guess, excelled in their own field
just to, again, help out.
Yep, so on the side, while I study,
I still practice as a pharmacist one or two days a week.
Up here is basically where I work.
And yeah, I have a lot of regular patients that come in.
And I guess, even though I'm studying business,
I still really, really enjoy the healthcare side of my life.
Especially my favorite part of practicing as a pharmacist
is seeing those regular patients
and really getting a sense that you can help them.
I guess, in Australia, pharmacy is a cornerstone
of any community, and regardless of where I go
in the future, I will always have a bit of a soft spot
for healthcare, and always, hopefully with any business,
come back and be able to help in that industry.
I guess the biggest tip I have
for people who want to come to Sydney and do this course
is that you should always be looking to seek opportunities.
You know, with me as a pharmacist,
a lot of people keyholed me into the healthcare
kind of sector in the industry,
but through this course, basically you'll learn
to branch out and learn all these different skills.
And it puts me in touch with all these people
with different backgrounds to me, you know.
Encourages collaboration.
And now, six months in, you know,
I've got a job lined up at a bank,
I've looked at starting my own startups.
I've just basically opened up my mind a little bit,
and I guess just a really strong tip is,
your undergraduate is really, really important,
and if you have a good job that you enjoy from it,
awesome, but if you ever do want change,
you wanna just upskill, do something different,
I really recommend this kind of one year,
just really quick, immersive course.
Especially 'cause it puts you in touch with these people
and all these connections that you can't really find
otherwise.
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