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Graduation is not just a milestone, but a turning point. From quiet realisations to uncertain possibilities, recent RMIT graduates reflect on what it truly means to step beyond university life.

Graduation isn’t the end of your RMIT chapter. As you step forward, you may be saying goodbye to certain student benefits and familiar routines. But not everything changes. Here’s what shifts after graduation, what stays with you, and how to make the most of life as an RMIT alumnus.

Our goal is to broaden participation for all learners ensuring they are resilient and equipped to thrive in a complex and rapidly changing world.

For many students, volunteering is simply a way to give back. Compared with part-time jobs or club positions, it is often considered a lower-commitment activity with limited opportunities for growth. But for the students featured in this story, volunteering turned out to be something much more transformative.

Many students feel intimidated when starting their careers, especially when job descriptions ask for experience that they have yet to gain. But the fact is, everyone begins somewhere. For most beginners, experience starts with small opportunities that gradually build skills, confidence, and direction in the future.

Want to graduate with more than just a degree? The new RMIT Career Ready Award is designed to help you build real-world experience, develop key employability skills, and gain confidence about your future career while you study.

Organised by the RMIT Fintech Club, Hack-A-Venture 2025 grew from a campus observation into a hackathon competition that attracts 385 participants from 32 universities across Vietnam. Behind that journey lies a practical blueprint in ownership, trust, and building credibility for students ready to prove that “student-scale” is only a mindset.

What does it take to turn a simple café visit into a meaningful creative artefact? Anchored in Vietnamese Gen Z’s café-driven digital culture, Urban Brews challenged students to look beyond the scroll, reimagining coffee dates as creative experiments where coffee culture evolved into purposeful digital production.