USC graduate scores marketing job in UK
It took University of the Sunshine Coast business graduate Hayley Munroe just three days to find work in London when she arrived in the United Kingdom earlier this year.
And it was not just any job. Hayley became the first marketing coordinator for the UK operations of Robert Bird Group, an Australian-based engineering company.
Hayley, 25, of Buderim, said she was enjoying the exciting challenges of developing a marketing department for the company.
“The engineering and property development industry is fascinating, the people are great and I have the opportunity to be very creative with the marketing and
communication activities,” she said.
“It is an Australian-based engineering company that I am so excited to be working for. I have thrown myself in the deep end. It is very challenging, but exactly what I was looking for.”
Hayley graduated from USC in 2007, sold her catering business on the Sunshine Coast and moved to Italy where she and her partner operated a villa/hotel in Viareggio, near Florence, for a year before moving to London.
She said her success in gaining work almost immediately was due in no small part to the quality of USC’s teaching staff and their approachable manner.
“My studies at USC taught me all the fundamentals of business and marketing which forms the basis for the work that I do every day,” she said. “USC gave me all the tools that I need to succeed in this role.
“Every single tutor and lecturer that I had at USC assisted me in some way. It is the personal approach used by the staff … they didn’t treat us like another number or student on their roll.”
USC Associate Professor of Marketing Debra Harker said she was delighted by Hayley’s success in London.
“Hayley has done so well because she had strong foundations as a good student with good grades and a strong work ethic,” she said.
Ms Harker said the USC Business Marketing degree was ranked the best in Australia by an annual Course Experience Questionnaire, a survey of students about the quality of institutions and their study programs.
She said more than 95% of USC marketing graduates each year gained work within three months, thanks to the depth and adaptability of the degrees.
“Marketing degrees are so dynamic,” she said. “They can take you so many different places all over the world and into so many different industries.”
— Claire Bruynius