 The entire program has been such a valuable thing for me. Doing Passport to Business has definitely made me a lot more forward-thinking. Compared to other first year students, I definitely feel a lot more prepared. Passport to Business has solidified what I should be doing. A lot of people come into university and they're really not sure what they want to do. Passport to Business helped me find that and then confirmed that yes, I am good enough and I am the right sort of person to be doing these jobs. Passport to Business is a program that students actually sign up for so they volunteer to do it and it gives them the extra skills and knowledge that they need to effectively apply for jobs. Students really do need to have an understanding of their transferable skills themselves, the type of job and industry they would like to go into and then they also need to be able to promote themselves to an employer. So if a student comes on Passport to Business, they can expect to have five sessions to come to in the evening. They will also have workshops that happen during the day and then there is extra homework such as CVs, cover letters, LinkedIn. They will do an informational interview and they will have a reflective log to complete. Then we also have a session on networking and that's immediately followed by speed networking with employers. One of the biggest benefits was just awareness because when you do it in a degree, you kind of imagine it will put me for everything but doing Passport to Business, you realise there is so much more and you just didn't know. Networking, testing, how testing is done, what employers look for. You wouldn't know about these things until you do a programme like this because this kind of stuff, you can't really be taught through books. All the activities were done like the networking event, the mock interview, the card sorts, the MBTI has really helped solidify the decision that I've made at the end of the journey. I want to focus on the commerce side of things, lean away from the law side of things. Everything we've done through Passport to Business has really helped confirm that I think that's the right decision. You progressively learn more about yourself, more about your strength, your weaknesses and it just gives you a lot more insight into what you really want to do. I think having been to an interview and had the networking night, I've got a more concrete idea of my goals. I know where I want to be and I can visualise it. It's just given me confidence to know that the time I am spending at university, the student loan and everything else that goes with it is actually going to be worth something at the end because I will get a career out of it and it will be something I enjoy. Overall I definitely recommend Passport to Business. It's helped secure my current job. It's got me into the final round of internships a year and a half early and I'm a lot more aware of the industry and the jobs available and I'm a lot more confident of myself as a person and where I'm heading.