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#WithSTEMYouCan, have a career that evolves with you and our world.

From fashion to finance or tackling climate change, STEM is at the core of so many important and interesting careers.

With STEM studies you can develop skills like problem solving, teamwork and creative thinking, STEM can set you up for life.

Check out the below to learn more about STEM, career paths available and hear from people firsthand about what it’s like working in the world of STEM.

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With STEM You Can…apply science to help others

Jess has found her calling, yet her journey didn’t always point toward a career in STEM.

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i think the most exciting part of my job
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is the ability to creatively think of
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new ways to solve problems that we just
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don’t know the answer for and as a
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result we might actually get the chance
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to learn something new about our
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universe
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if you’re looking for a career that’s
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impactful and interesting then a career
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in STEM is where you want to go it’s
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taking me across the world and across so
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many industries you keep learning
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different things that apply to the work
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that you do that is something that
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really only a career in STEM can give
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you

STEM evolves with you

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stem opens up a huge horizon where you
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can you can pretty much do anything
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I think it will involve climate adaption
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and mitigation jobs as well as the
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emergence of further AI technologies My
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first role I started in the mining
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industry but then I pivoted and I
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actually went into the computer games
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industry The skills that I had built up
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through that that career path actually
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translated with me and that core study
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in STEM really made that happen

STEM skills set you up for life

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my future career looks bright and I
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think it will involve working with
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indigenous communities on restoring
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their
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country There’s a huge amount of future
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careers that are emerging Of course
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research and development that’s a huge
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one But around a single robot you need
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people who fix the robot You need people
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who provide sales You need people who
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manage the entire team I think that
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there’s just a lot of opportunity in
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that space that I think is going to
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start to emerge as products are ready

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