Unitec Career and Employability Directory Profiles

I applied to a program called Tuputoa which offers Māori and Pacific Island students internships in the summer which landed me an interview with Deloitte. Since then, I received an offer as a graduate and have now been at Deloitte for 6 months and am loving every second of it.

Jamuna Sharma Dhakal studied Master's Degree in Electrical Engineering at the Auckland University of Technology and is now a Graduate Engineer at Powerco.

One of the things that I believed helped shape my pathway was my journey with sports. Having grown up fully immersed in sports, particularly rugby, I was able to translate a lot of the lessons learnt from the field to the classroom and eventually the workplace.

I found that the transport company I was working at was very interesting because while I was researching and collecting data, there was some interesting data about how transport works and new ways to deal with transport in general.

In the Insights team, we utilize primary research to understand and represent the needs, behaviours, and attitudes of people, allowing us to confidently develop our networks and services in partnership with them.

The best part of the emerging professional programme is the supportive network of other graduates present within the organisation who have fostered a friendly and approachable work culture.