Happy Week 3! The trimester is already picking up speed, with classes getting busier and plenty happening across campus. Although the first few weeks are behind us, there’s still plenty of time to get involved, try something new and make the most of the term! 👏
If you’re looking for something beyond your weekly lecture slides, this week’s Bulletin has plenty to explore, from career opportunities to useful advice. Happy reading! 📖
Capital W Events
Keeping Up with The Alumni
Want to connect with inspiring Capital W Alumni? Or learn about how to navigate life after university?
Join us for this year’s Keeping Up with the Alumni online panel event which celebrates the transition from university life to the professional world. This event offers a unique opportunity to engage in meaningful conversations about career growth, lessons learned and navigation life beyond university!
📅 Thursday 8 October 2026
📍 Online
🕕 6:00 pm
Don’t let AI do the thinking for you
Your future manager is probably going to tell you to use AI. It might even be part of your onboarding or performance objectives. Use it, but don’t assume nobody cares how you’re using it. When you’re a junior, you don’t have years of experience to fall back on when the output is wrong. Your first few years are where you learn what good work actually looks like. If AI is doing everything before you’ve learnt how to do it yourself, you’re missing a pretty important part of the job.
People are already sending AI-written Teams messages to their own team, dropping entire ChatGPT outputs into strategy documents and presenting Copilot slides they clearly haven’t read properly. Everyone in the room can tell. The em-dashes, the corporate filler, and the confident tone wrapped. Your credibility as a junior is built on showing people you can think, and sending work you clearly didn't write or check tells them otherwise. Use AI to draft faster, clean up your formatting, pressure-test your logic or find information. Then read what it gave you, apply what you actually know about the project and send something you'd put your name on.
Unspoken Rules
The Unspoken Rules is all about the things no one really teaches you, but you’re somehow expected to know and rarely explained. Don’t worry, we’ve got your back!
How to talk about human skills in a job interview
Showing you have the right skills for a role is a big part of the job application process. But what skills are important to employers these days? While each role is unique, AI is changing the way businesses think about skills – making “human” skills (also known as soft or power skills) more important than ever before.
Identify your skills: Ask colleagues, mentors, friends or family what you’re good at. Think beyond work too. Skills like communication, empathy and adaptability all count.
See what employers want: Look through job ads in your field and note the skills that keep coming up.
Prepare real examples: Think of times you’ve used each skill at work, uni or elsewhere. Use the STAR method to keep your examples clear.
Practise talking about them: Try mock interviews with a friend, recruiter or hiring manager. The more you practise, the easier it is to explain your strengths confidently.
Did you know?
Relationship management is the commercial engine of every major bank. RMs manage a portfolio of business clients, understand their financial needs, structure lending solutions and grow the relationship over time. The role sits across business banking, institutional banking and private wealth. The bank invests in you because a good RM stops clients leaving and finds new ways to do business with them, which is where most of the bank's revenue comes from.
You don't need a finance degree. Commerce, economics and arts graduates all end up in RM roles because the skill that matters most is being able to sit across from a business owner twice your age and have a conversation they find useful. If you're comfortable talking to anyone, curious about how businesses make money and motivated by a role where your pay is tied to your relationships rather than your hours, add the business banking stream to your grad application.
Sponsor Opportunities
J.P. Morgan Inside the Industry Investment Banking Event
Join us for an exclusive event for university students in NSW from all disciplines who are graduating in 2028 or 2029.
This information session provides a unique opportunity to experience J.P. Morgan’s dynamic work environment and learn about our dedication to developing talent from all backgrounds.
You’ll gain valuable insights into our Winter and Summer Internship programs, network with senior leaders and recent graduates from our Investment Banking team, and receive practical advice on launching your career in finance.
Date: Thursday, October 15, 2026
Time: 16:00 -18:00 AEDT
Venue: J.P. Morgan Sydney office
Introducing - Next CA
We're excited to share CA ANZ's free student membership program, Next CA! Designed to tap into your future leader potential.
From sport and music to startups and global brands, Next CA helps you explore career pathways, hear real stories, and figure out what future you could look like.
The best part? As an exclusive member, you'll get up to 15% cash back deals from over 100+ major retailers - think The Iconic, LSKD and more!
Career Connect – Mentoring Platform
Future IM/Pact's Career Connect is a flash mentoring platform matching students and young professionals with investment industry mentors for 1:1 virtual conversations. Explore careers in investment management and advice, gain practical insight into roles and career paths, and build connections with professionals across the industry.
First published in the Capital W Bulletin, the newsletter of Capital W, the UNSW Women in Business Society. Read it there or subscribe.
