{"id":1293,"date":"2017-03-03T11:40:51","date_gmt":"2017-03-03T03:40:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mentorship.hku.hk\/daao\/\/?p=1293"},"modified":"2017-08-25T17:38:07","modified_gmt":"2017-08-25T09:38:07","slug":"sydney-a-warm-start","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mentorship.hku.hk\/daao\/index.php\/2017\/03\/03\/sydney-a-warm-start\/","title":{"rendered":"[Sydney] A warm start"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><strong><div class=\"column one\">A warm start<\/div>\n<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1294 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mentorship.hku.hk\/daao\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/3035142077_Deng-Xiaomeng.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"532\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mentorship.hku.hk\/daao\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/3035142077_Deng-Xiaomeng.png 746w, https:\/\/www.mentorship.hku.hk\/daao\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/3035142077_Deng-Xiaomeng-300x226.png 300w, https:\/\/www.mentorship.hku.hk\/daao\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/3035142077_Deng-Xiaomeng-194x146.png 194w, https:\/\/www.mentorship.hku.hk\/daao\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/3035142077_Deng-Xiaomeng-50x38.png 50w, https:\/\/www.mentorship.hku.hk\/daao\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/3035142077_Deng-Xiaomeng-100x75.png 100w, https:\/\/www.mentorship.hku.hk\/daao\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/3035142077_Deng-Xiaomeng-638x480.png 638w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 532px) 100vw, 532px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u201cLinda is a very warm-hearted and friendly mentor. She definitely has helped me to adapt and has enriched my exchange time! She offered me a ride to home after I arrived Sydney and invited me to join HKUAA New South Wales Chapter Annual Meeting where I met many HKU senior alumni and also connected with other HKU students on exchange in Sydney. This gave me a heartwarming feeling at the start of the exchange.<\/p>\n<p>I am a student st<span class=\"text_exposed_show\">udying finance and Linda kindly invited me to visit her firm and introduced me the working environment of an investment bank. This gave me my first impression of investment banking, which encouraged me to work harder for my future career!\u201d Deng Xiaomeng (BAcc&amp;Fin Year 2)<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"text_exposed_show\">\n<p>Ivan Siu (BEcon&amp;Fin Year 2) echoed Xiaomeng\u2019s words: \u201cShe also took me to her company for a firm visit. It was a great opportunity for me to get an in-depth understanding of the actual working environment in Australia and know more about the workplace cultural differences between Hong Kong and Australia.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Mentor in New South Wales, Australia since 2013: Ms Linda Tang<br \/>\nOutgoing Exchange Mentees (2016-17):\u00a0<span class=\"text_exposed_show\"> Deng Xiaomeng<\/span> and Ivan Siu<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cLinda is a very warm-hearted and friendly mentor. She definitely has helped me to adapt and has enriched my exchange time! She offered me a ride to home after I arrived Sydney and invited me to join HKUAA New South Wales Chapter Annual Meeting where I met many HKU senior<span class=\"excerpt-hellip\"> [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1294,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mentorship.hku.hk\/daao\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mentorship.hku.hk\/daao\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mentorship.hku.hk\/daao\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mentorship.hku.hk\/daao\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mentorship.hku.hk\/daao\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1293"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.mentorship.hku.hk\/daao\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1605,"href":"https:\/\/www.mentorship.hku.hk\/daao\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1293\/revisions\/1605"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mentorship.hku.hk\/daao\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mentorship.hku.hk\/daao\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mentorship.hku.hk\/daao\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mentorship.hku.hk\/daao\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}