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Cool Company To Work For #8: Brooklyn Grange
Are you interested in a career in agriculture, environmental studies, architecture, construction or business? Then this may be the perfect company for you! Brooklyn Grange is a New York City landscaping company that deals exclusively in rooftop farming. It covers...
The Habits Of Proactive And Effective People
I have just recently finished reading Steven Covey's "The 7 habits of highly effective people" and found it a fascinating read on how, by changing my mindset I can become a more productive person with bigger and better outcomes. Whilst Covey never specifies a...
HSC Economics Update: The Reserve Bank of Australia
According to its website the Reserve Bank of Australia: "conducts monetary policy, works to maintain a strong financial system and issues the nation's banknotes. The Reserve Bank commenced operations as Australia's central bank on 14 January 1960." The RBA and what is...
Mindfulness – Helping Our Students Perform Better
Mindfulness – Helping our Students Perform Better Want to improve concentration, be more focused, feel less anxious and even perform better overall? Well let me introduce ‘Mindfulness’ to you. Mindfulness as a concept has been around for centuries however it’s a real...
Cool Company To Work For #6: Atlassian
Software is in everything that we use – computers, phones, televisions. But we don’t often appreciate who is in charge of making and building these. Atlassian is a software development company for software developers. They help teams and companies of all different...
Economics Update- 4th March 2014
This week we look at Australia's place in the global economy and other countries responses to influence of the global economy. Awesome for essays on topic 1 and topic 2! Article 1 – Australia and the Global economy This article touches on China, the RBA and exchange...
Top 10 Tips For Studying
TOP TEN TIPS TO START THINKING MORE EFFICIENTLY We’ve had a productive week at HSC CoWorks getting our students set up on our online project management system, Basecamp. We are getting a lot of feedback from the students that although they seem to be spending enough...
Cool Companies To Work For #6: WhatsApp And The World of Start Ups
WhatsApp is a social media messenger service across all smartphone devices that allows you to exchange messages without having to pay for SMS. It started in 2009 in California when two friends decided to make an app on the recently started App Store of IPhones. What...
HSC Economics Update – 24th Feb
This weekend Sydney hosted finance ministers and central bankers from across the globe as part of hosting the G20 meeting. Pretty big event for Sydney to host but I haven't seen much press coverage of it other than quoting a predictable statements from Joe...
