understand how businesses work and what makes the economy tick so I think those

two degrees went hand-in-hand and made sense to me.

My name is Lisa Mizeko and I'm an external auditor at KPMG.

Within my year twelve year, my career advisor told me about Southern Cross University and how

they had the Star Early Entry program which meant before sitting my final exam

I knew I had a place and I thought that was great.

I found the lecturers at Southern Cross pretty, I suppose, they were people if

that makes sense I was able to approach them when I had questions they gave me

the confidence and the knowledge and understanding that I needed to know what

my opportunities were and what I needed to do to be successful.

I was lucky enough to go to China, Singapore and Hong Kong through Southern Cross University.

Two of those were study tours and the other one was an exchange program where

I got to study for six months. Those experiences gave me the confidence to be

able to know what I wanted to do and gave me the experiences that I need to

be able to do my job today.

I would really recommend students to take the

opportunities to go overseas simply because you learn so much you make so

many new friends and those are experiences which you'll treasure forever.

I finished my undergraduate last year and within the nine months since

finishing I've had so much experience. I feel like Southern Cross definitely

gave me the skills the knowledge and the level of thinking that I need to

actually do my job effectively. I'm excited to see where the experiences

from Southern Cross will take me and I think I've got a bright future ahead and

I'm excited to seize the opportunities.