If there’s anyone who knows the value of networking with alumni, it’s Griffith University graduate Thomas Punch. Currently based in Montreal, Thomas is the youngest executive for the wildly successful global media company WatchMojo, and was keen to drop back into his former university to provide valuable guidance to current students when he visited Australia.
“When I moved overseas to further my career, a lot of the networking I did to build my networks was through alumni. I was essentially contacting former Griffith University students who were a lot older than me and asking them about their career path,” he explains. “Then it just occured to me I could do the same for the younger generations. It’s always helpful to hear from people in the workforce who are in different careers to what you might have thought about.”
And Thomas’s career has been quite extraordinary. At 30 years old, he is one