The Job Skills Seminar was yesterday and we had a great turnout to the event once again with over 70 attending! We had two brilliant speakers, Shaun Pulman from University Careers Services and Marion Rogers from Tri-Tek Services. A big shout-out also has to go out to all the execs that turned up on the day to help out and those that helped in the days leading up to the event. Below you may download Shaun’s Powerpoint slides.

Download Shaun Pulman’s Slides

Highlights of the day included:

* Hengjie, our Chairman, MCing the event with his beloved iPad 2
* Josheel, our Treasurer, suiting up

For all our members who have signed up, don’t forget we still have the Practice Interviews coming up next Tuesday!

Congratulations to Team Tlura Quefrency, comprising University of Auckland Student Branch members Ronald Chan, Tapio Saarinen and Ralph Versteegen, who placed second in the world in the IEEEXtreme 24-hour programming competition!

Ronald, Tapio and Ralph were one of just ten teams to solve all seventeen problems in the competition.  Teams were then ranked on the basis of the sum of submit times for each problem and the number of incorrect submissions.  The result puts them at the top of Region 10 (Asia-Pacific).  (The winning team was from the Region 8 (Europe-Middle East-Africa).)

Fourteen teams from the University of Auckland Student Branch were among over 900 internationally to battle it out in an intense programming competition on Labour weekend, from 1 p.m. Saturday 23 October to 1 p.m. Sunday 24 October (New Zealand Daylight Time).  Unfathomable Fathoms (who by an administrative mix-up are called “Placeholder1″ in the rankings), comprising Itamar Amith, Glen Robertson and Danver Braganza, solved sixteen problems and finished 15th in the world.

Read more