The University of Sydney Business School Career Directory Profiles

I have learnt an incredible amount of new skills and met a bunch of new like-minded people.

Nick Beattie studied a Master of Planning at Lincoln University and is now a Consultant, Environment and Planning at Aurecon.

Be Authentic. Don’t attempt to be something that you aren’t in life and work.

Flexibility is desirable when starting out at APRA, because as a graduate you may be assigned to an industry or entity which you have no familiarity with.

I think one of the biggest rewards as a graduate engineer would have to be being a part of the successful transformation of the design into a real-life structure.

It’s the extra roles and committees outside of project work that I treasure most and that makes me feel included. Roles such as being the lead of the First Nations Committee; this role allows me to embrace my culture and heritage within the business and gives me the confidence to bring the complete ‘Nick’ to work every day.