O’Guide Program

About the program

Starting Uni can be daunting and there are a lot of things for new students to learn, like finding their way around, knowing where to get textbooks and understanding University systems.

We asked new students how we could better support them during their crucial first few weeks at Flinders and many told us they would find it helpful to be paired up with another student to help them settle in. In response to this, we developed the O’Guide Program.

O’Guides are current students who will act as a contact point for new students throughout the first few weeks of semester. O’Guides are there to answer questions (or point students in the right direction) and help them get to know others.

Students starting at Flinders in semester 1, 2021 will be buddied up with an O’Guide in groups with other new students, either face-to-face or online. O'Guide group get togethers will take place in O'Week and weekly during the first three weeks of semester 1.

Be an O’Guide

Applications for 2021 are now open.

If you’ve been studying at Flinders for six months or more and keen to be involved in 2021, please apply now.

Being an O’Guide will give you an opportunity to:

• participate in a student development program that will build your professional skills
• enhance your CV by earning Horizon Award points to kick start your career
• make friends and connections with other O’Guides and broaden your network
• contribute to your University community and have a positive impact on new students
• obtain a written recommendation on LinkedIn from Flinders University
• receive a pair of exclusive Flinders University branded duck socks!

As an O’Guide, your commitment is:

• to complete the online O’Guide training topic in FLO as well as an online live video training (total of approximately four hours)
• to work in partnership other O’Guides to run weekly face to face or online group sessions (approximately two hours from O’Week to week 3  of semester 1
• to provide feedback on the program via an online O’Guide debrief session and online survey (approximately one hour).

The total time commitment is approximately 15 hours across O'Week to week 3 of semester 1, 2021.