Read about some of the fantastic connections that some of our students and businesses have made.
Case Study: Austin & his Ribit Journey Student: Austin Wilshire and iRecruit – Systems Engineer, Tanda Austin Wilshire attended a Ribit speed networking event in Queensland and his career took off from there. Hear from Austin what he attributes his success to, how his experience with Ribit shaped his career and the advice he offers …
Mindhive is the world’s first crowdsourced consultancy platform. Founder Bruce Muirhead and his team used Ribit to find the right young talent to grow their business. Diversity of thought is vital for success in today’s disruptive landscape and integral to the Mindhive value proposition. So naturally, the choice to hire students through Ribit was an …
Arslan Nizami, Masters Electronic & Energy Engineering, at Griffith University. Student internships at Radspec, and Talentvine. It has been one year since international student Arslan Nizami graduated from Griffith University with a Masters Degree in Electronic and Energy Engineering and already it has been quite a ride. He is currently employed at Radspec in Brisbane as …
Internships take this engineering student to a whole new frequencyRead More »
Julian Blair, UNSW, Commerce, Financial Economics and Computer Science Julian Blair is in the final semester of a double degree in Commerce and Financial Economics and Computer Science at UNSW. Just back recently from Seattle, he has been working at Microsoft HQ as a software developer on their Business Development team, a journey which began with …
In an increasingly conflicted and confusing media landscape the team at Worldview Exchange are building a platform to enable consumers to make better sense of the news, and themselves. Worldview Exchange came from the insight that, despite a real increase in choice of news media online, we are only getting fed content we’re likely to …
Employer: Fintech Australia Student: Rehan Dalmeida, Macquarie University, MBA Rehan Dalmeida has been working for at Fintech Australia, the national association for the Fintech industry, for almost a year now. Fintech Australia supports the Fintech community through advocacy, government lobbying, support, education and network development. The international MBA student, now in his final year at …
Dispatch from the match: Rehan and Fintech AustraliaRead More »
Lakshmi Balasubramani was in the final semester of her Masters in Actuarial Studies at UNSW, when she received an invitation to an Ribit internship networking opportunity, “Fintern Fever”, which was being held at Stone & Chalk, a fintech and regtech innovation hub and co-working space. It was November 2015 and little did she realise how …
Dispatch from the Match: from Intern to Analyst now InnovatorRead More »
Nicole Lui is one of Ribit’s very first “Finterns”, having attended the inaugural “Fintern Fever” at Stone and Chalk in December 2015. She had recently completed an internship in investment banking and was in the final year of a Bachelor of Commerce at UNSW. “I was looking for something different. I’d always wanted a chance …
From Reinventure to Reinvention! From Fintern to McKinsey ConsultantRead More »
“The most important lever for success is the ability to constantly learn new skills, and with students they get to learn on the job,” Michael Zhou, Founder, Inferentics (credit risk modelling startup). It’s extraordinary and humbling that we at Ribit are in a position to meet student’s everyday like Tristan. Students that are redefining the …
Dispatch from the Match: Tristan and Inferentics TechnologyRead More »
TalentVine is a startup based at Brisbane’s River City Labs which specialises in connecting employers to a selected pool of recruiters, who in turn bid for the opportunity to put forward their best candidates. Check them out at: https://www.talentvine.com.au/ With the user pool growing by over 20 per cent, month, by month and 250 of …