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The placement really allowed me to apply my analytical skills to the most challenging problems within a great organization. I was given the flexibility and responsibility to innovatively approach a problem that could make a positive impact to the community.

Ke Shen. (Westpac)

Thanks SAS Workplace Program for giving me this opportunity to work in the Australian Banking Industry. In this 12 weeks’ program, you can not only find how your skills can add value to the business but also learn other practical skills that are suitable for your career. If you plan to become a data analyst, this program is your best choice to gain some insights about the company can utilize the data to support their business.

Xiao (Angus) Zhou - (Westpac – Jonson)

As an international student, getting a chance at internships is a real challenge for most. Thanks to SAS summer internship program and my SAS skillset I learn from my university courses, I was able to gain a well-rounded experience by interning full time at one of the major financial organisations. Besides learning the technical analytics skills, the internship helped me pick up a lot of soft skills such as teamwork, regular meetings, jargons, presentations and communicating in a work environment. Besides that, I was able to experience and integrate myself with the mindset of Australian Work Culture.

Fahim A. Al Jahangir – (MeBank – VIC)

I was fortunate enough to get my work placement opportunity at ME (Members Equity) Bank's Melbourne office through SAS Work Placement program. It was my first experience working at a bank, and it just couldn't have been better. SAS Work Placement team did an amazing job in matching my skill set to the skills required by ME Bank, which made my transition to work all the easier. I was able to utilize all my learning from my Master of Business Analytics course at La Trobe Business School at ME Bank on an everyday basis. The internship helped me immensely to get my hands on with the bank's data warehouse, concepts of which were taught to me in my course. Needless to say, ME Bank's Risk team was really supportive in helping me understand their work and also take my inputs in aligning possible analytics to make the insights all the more meaningful. The final insights of my work that I presented at the end of my internship, gave me immense confidence and motivation, and helped me understand that data analytics indeed goes a long way in transforming businesses.

Mahesh Krishnan – (MeBank – VIC)

Through my previous enjoyable encounter with SAS, I quickly applied through the SAS Placement Program when I started job searching for last summer. The communication process was quick and clear. After a few phone calls, I was able to to sit in front of Dave Houghton, the head of Analytics Transformation in Westpac. After a brief interview, I was able to get my hands on the recent project the SDRE team was working on regarding building repositories through raw data sets after data cleaning and basic summary statistics generation. Apparently, our project could save analysts among numerous departments time and energy conducting these actions before they interpret with these data sets for analytics purposes.

Huan Dwight Liu – (Westpac: Dave H)

The SAS work placement program has provided me with the incredible opportunity to work with government department after I finished my graduation. Working as SAS analyst was a great opportunity for not only building my SAS skills but also it helps me to develop my communication skills and technical skills as well. At the department, I got an experience to work with huge datasets which give me an opportunity to find out the insights of metadata sets using SAS Enterprise guide and also realized that how powerful the SAS tool is in data analytics. I enjoyed a lot using my programming and analytical skill during 8 weeks placement program.

Sarfraz Malvi. (NSW Department of Industry) Macquarie Uni

The SAS Work Placement program is an excellent opportunity for university students to gain exposure on SAS and to learn how SAS work in Industries. It was tremendous feeling when I am working on TeraData on SAS platform so easily during my Internship. I would suggest every Analytics student to learn SAS and to gain experience on SAS.

Nithin Meda. (ANZ Bank) RMIT

The SAS Work Placement Internship was a great experience which allowed me to gain practical experience and learn how analytics is practiced in the industry. It helped me further develop my technical and soft skills, and I would highly recommend the program to other students.

Rushil R. Sirur.(ANZ Bank) RMIT

The SAS Work Placement program provided me with an opportunity to practise the theory I had learnt in my masters program in a real world environment (using real data and with a real impact). Additionally, as a result of this opportunity, I was able to secure an extended contract. This will greatly contribute to the work experience requirement of the ACS.

Jeremiah Gichonge.(RACV) Deakin

SAS Workplace Program has been one of the most valuable experiences for me. Unlike the classroom learning, it allowed me to my first exposure to large datasets. During the three months internship, I have acquired valuable skills such as data preparation, data manipulation and building models. Consequently, I could build and implement my first predictive model. Honestly, I would like to divide my analytics journey into two parts one before SAS Workplace Program, where I had limited analytical skills and knowledge; and another SAS Workplace Program which has polished me to take up any type of analytical task. Also, one of the benefits which I gained from this Program is valuable mentorship from leading analytics professionals at the workplace. The platform provided by this internship is highly valuable as it has increased my confidence, practical knowledge and most importantly the much-required analytical skills. I thank SAS for providing me such a great opportunity which has potentially changed how I do analytics.

Hanumanth P. Tatikonda. (RACV) La Trobe

SAS work placement program is a golden opportunity that provided me the exposure to the professional work environment in Australia. SAS work placement program helped me kick start my career in the Data Science industry providing me with invaluable experience.

Mohmedzayd A. Mansuri. (Coca Cola) UTS