My Volunteer Experience - Yang Jiao

Welcome Yang!
Yang Jiao joined our SAcommunity Data Analytics Team as a volunteer, whilst he undertakes his PhD at university and searches for employment. Yang started with the team on the 22 February 2023 and attending ~4 hours a week at the Connecting Up office around his studies. 

 

Yang Jiao, is a current PhD student, specialising in Banking and Finance at the University of Adelaide, where he has previously obtained a Master's degree in Data Science. His research interests encompass machine learning and corporate finance, with a focus on investigating the implementation of machine learning techniques in Initial Public Offering (IPO) pricing.​

 

Yang is eager to contribute to the local community, form connections and networks, and embrace life in Adelaide. To achieve his goals, he has joined Connecting Up at Infoxchange, as a Volunteer Information Officer in the SAcommunity Data Analytics Team. To gain some practical experience in an Australian workplace, expand his learning as part of the Data Analytics Team, and better acquaint himself with the local office culture. ​

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Along with his research interests in financial area, Yang aims for a future career as a web developer. 

Welcome Yang, we are glad to have you!
 

Work Experience
Yang has been working on the Yorke Peninsula Council dataset as part of the council statistics project, and with the results of his 2021 - 2022 report shared >>here sacommunity.org/yorkepeninsula



Image: SAcommunity Volunteers Neil Anubhav Dattagupta, Camille Sze Pui Ko and Yang Jiao

Infoxchange People and Culture
Yang has been taking part in various Connecting Up meetings and Infoxchange People and Culture events to understand more about our aims, goals and activities and how his volunteer work fits into the organisation. He attended the Infoxchange Town Hall meeting on the 7 June 2023, this online session is open to all staff, volunteers and interns in our offices across Adelaide, Melbourne, Brisbane and New Zealand and allows everyone to learn more about Infoxchange and current projects across the Australia-wide social enterprise.

Image: Cameron Brown, Web Developer, Infoxchange and Volunteer Yang Jiao
 

Infoxchange has a mentoring program for our volunteers and interns where mentees can choose and ask one of the 180 staff members across the organisation to a mentor meeting. Here they can talks to their relevant career mentor, ask prepared questions, and receive valuable feedback, that they can action to achieve their goals.

Mentor meetings aim to provide our volunteers and interns with support in their role and build stronger links with them as members of our team and across our organisation. Yang arranged to meet with Cameron Brown, Web Developer, Infoxchange. Yang has been learning HTML, CSS and Javascript and is very interested in website building and maintenance, and was looking for some practical suggestions and to understand more about Cameron's project experience.   

During Yang's recent mentor meeting with Cameron Brown, Web Developer, Infoxchange, on 18 April 2023, he gained some valuable insights that will be helpful in his pursuit of a career as a web developer.

Here are the key takeaways from our mentorship meeting: