Beyond AUT Award
The Beyond AUT Award is an employability award for postgraduate students at AUT that helps you feel prepared for the workplace, and develop stronger networking, leadership and communication skills.
Open to all AUT postgraduate students, the Beyond AUT Award takes around 65 hours to complete and will be acknowledged on your academic transcript. There are 4 parts: volunteering, employability, leadership and final interview. Below are stories highlighting the value of the awards to some past recipients.
Pushing self-limitations through the Beyond AUT Award
Gaining confidence and learning new ways to communicate were major achievements for Sione Finau as he took on the Beyond AUT Award. “It has also opened my eyes to the importance of connection, the value of looking for potential in others and how much you learn by reflecting.”
Practical Immersion into NZ workculture
As a newcomer to New Zealand and AUT, international student Ataa Dalal enrolled in the Beyond AUT Award to understand New Zealand better and broaden her ability to engage personally and professionally with New Zealanders. She says it did that and more.
Employability Awards offer value beyond expectations
How to stand out to employers? The AUT Employability Awards may be the answer if you’re looking for a way to develop strong communication skills, become more confident and find out more about the world beyond AUT campuses? This semester 62 students graduated with the award – here is what some had to say.
Professional and Personal Wins through Beyond AUT
A significant chapter of personal and professional growth is how Beyond AUT Award Overall Prize winner Karan George describes her Beyond AUT Award journey.
Previous Beyond AUT Award Recipient Stories
Finding his voice through the Beyond AUT Award
Stepping up to the challenge of taking on leadership roles rather than staying in the background has been a major achievement for Etienne Tapueluelu who received the Cordis Hotel Beyond AUT Overall Award prize at the Employability Awards Graduation Ceremony on Monday 14 November. The prize is awarded to the student who went over and beyond in all aspects of their award journey.
Impact of working together on sustainability
When Liubov Sidorova first started the AUT Edge Award she was confused about volunteering in New Zealand and didn’t believe that one person from overseas would make any difference to anything.
First Beyond AUT graduate pulls out all stops
Can you imagine choosing to fit in 85 hours of volunteering, 30 hours of leadership and 15 workshops around study, work and raising a family?
Conquering the final reflection
Volunteering - tick! Leadership - tick! Employability workshops - tick! You'll be feeling good. Just the final Edge reflection or Beyond interview to go and you'll have completed the award that you've put so much energy into. Bullseye!
Employability Awards graduation celebrates huge success in difficult times
Everyone had to grow this year to simply survive, declared Shailan Patel NZ Education Manager for MYOB, speaking at the AUT Edge and Beyond Awards graduation ceremony recently.
Great commitment from 2020 Beyond AUT Award Winners
Despite the challenge of trying to fulfil volunteering and leadership hours under lockdown, Siddharth Thyagaraj, who won the Beyond AUT Award Prize for semester two, managed to volunteer for 101 hours which was nearly triple the hours needed to achieve the Beyond AUT Award. On top of that Siddharth also did 37 leadership hours.
Enriched experience with Employability & Careers
When Giri Gonsai found out about Employability and Careers after picking up a flyer at Orientation, the Postgraduate Computer and Information Science student realised he’d stumbled onto a way to charge up his year and become fully prepared for employment. And he was not wrong.
Develop leadership & employability skills
Want to stand out to employers? With the AUT Edge and Beyond AUT Awards you gain an extra edge in the competitive marketplace by developing sought-after skills through volunteering, leadership and employability activities.
Employability and Careers Blog
Find ideas on how to get better at job search through your CV or LinkedIn profile, learn from the feedback of employers, and be inspired by stories of AUT students and graduates as they network, go to job interviews and find their feet in their chosen career.