Is entrepreneurship right for you?
Many of you might have heard about entrepreneurship, accelerator programs, startups and venture capital. Some of you may be already involved in one. For others, this might seem a distant thing, after all we are taught to follow the path i.e study well, get good grades, get a good job and settle in life- until you realise that there’s MORE to life and that the ‘career path’ these days is not so linear.
Today’s career is a ‘Portfolio of jobs and activities’. Yes you heard it right. Today, you could be a student, founder of a student society, and running your own youtube channel and instagram influencer- all at the same time! or you could be driven to make an Impact, just like our alumna Yesha Patel.
Congratulations 💐 to our Illume Fellow Yesha Patel 🚀 Founder of After for being listed on 101 South Asian Australian founders. Yesha, started her founder journey while still at her university with the aim to change the landscape for 'fast fashion' to sustainability. It's been amazing to see her journey as she takes on the behemoth industry. You can read more on this story here.
To help you test the waters before you plunge in, we’re introducing two new programs in addition to our flagship Startup Fellowship which provides your real-world experience working at a startup.
📣Launching……..🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁
VC Investment Fellowship 💎:
For those seeking to explore careers in Venture Capital or early stage startup investment or just curious about building VC backable startups. Learn how VCs make investments, Due Diligence and learn from founders and world-class VCs in this 4 weeks intensive program- plus you get to work on a real-life startup project- How cool!!!
Open to students, graduates and professionals. Applications OPEN Now.
Learn more about the VC Investment Fellowship Program.
Innovation Program ⚡️:
For those who have been sitting on startup idea or want to plunge into being a founder, this program gives you the tools, skillset and connections to kickstart your founder journey.
4 weeks to try and test your idea- let’s get you started !!!
Open to all students, professionals, aspiring founders and founders who are looking for co-founders. Learn from other founders and take the driver’s seat.
Learn more about the Innovation Program.
💫What’s happening at the Foundation?
This month we caught up with our Illume fellows, learning about career transition from student to professional, challenges faced as international students such as VISA, and PR issues, and of course dinner fellowship.
💫 Cohort update: Our July/Aug cohort are now finishing their placements working with some of the coolest and innovative emerging startups from Farmers2Founders Program. Thank you ,James Muir, entrepreneur coach who supported the students throughout the program and to our partner.
🙌 Applications are also open to the next cohort of Startup Fellowship, get ‘real world’ experience at a startup and kickstart your professional journey like 100+ of our Illume fellows.
🤙And more congratulations to our Fellows……..🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁
🤙 Saleha for landing a role as Data Scientist with More Good Days.
🤙 Maitreyee, landing her Graduate role with SCORKL and
🤙 Abhijeet for joining Apromore from PwC, (We told you Startups were more exciting 😆)
Opportunity Corner✨ :
Business Analyst for an EnergyTech company: Paid Internship leading to part-time or full time role based in Sydney. $25 per hour.
Marketing Role for an E-commerce startup: Paid Internship leading to part- time role. Looking for someone with great content writing and social media skills.
Junior Software Engineering role for a Sustainable Startup.
***For all the roles advertised, please see the Job Board below and apply via Startup Fellowship Page or the link below and specify the role in your application.****
Upcoming Events 🙌
Interested to learn about Illume Foundation and our programs but not sure where to begin, join us for a virtual Info session on how Illume is supporting students, graduates and early stage founders towards innovative careers.
Event Details: Illume Info Session
Wednesday, 23rd August: 8pm to 9pm via zoom. (Free Event)
Zoom link will be sent closer to the event date
Before we go, Illume’s awarded City of Melbourne’s Open Innovation Competition for our work in supporting international students in Employability & Entrepreneurship. Here’s the video
Cia… until next time!!!