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The Graduate Recruitment Blog is a blog that comments on graduate and student recruitment trends in Australia. It is maintained by GradConnection, with the goal of offering real insights into the Australian graduate recruitment market. All statistics and data in this blog has been collected by GradConnection through our Graduate Program Wizard. For more information please visit http://www.gradconnection.com.au| Next |  |
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NAB Graduate Expo
9:39pm Wednesday 23 March 2011 - GradConnection The Expo A few weeks ago, myself and Murad were lucky enough to get an invite to the NAB Graduate Expo. It’s a new initiative by NAB and something quite innovative and different from what I’ve seen any other employers do so thought I would post about it. The expo was designed to give current students an [...] | View Full Article Email Article |
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GradConnection Careers Fairs 2011
10:36am Friday 04 March 2011 - GradConnection So Careers Fairs kicked off for the 2011 recruitment season starting with Macquarie University yesterday. We thought we’d let you guys know what careers fairs we were attending this year so you can know where we are and come say hi if we’re at the same fair and reserve yourself one of the GradConnection 3.0 [...] | View Full Article Email Article |
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Christchurch Earthquake – Tuesday 22nd February 2011
3:04pm Tuesday 01 March 2011 - GradConnection As many of you may know, Dave, Mike and myself are all from New Zealand originally so it was extremely bad news for us to hear that Christchurch was hit by another earthquake last week on Tuesday around lunchtime for us. First off we’d just like to say thanks to all of you who have sent [...] | View Full Article Email Article |
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GradConnection Forum Sessions Timetable 2011
12:01am Friday 25 February 2011 - GradConnection Employer Forums: A first for the upcoming Graduate Recruitment Season Last year we trialled running forum sessions with a few employers during the summer vacation recruitment season. We had such a great response from our graduates generating 1000’s of visits and pages of questions within a few hours that we thought we’d aim for an employer a [...] | View Full Article Email Article |
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The Graduate Blues
9:07am Friday 21 January 2011 - GradConnection Most graduate managers are probably about to take their last deep breath before the footsteps of fresh and eager graduates fill the hallways. While this is usually an exciting time, we have heard of a few cases of graduates suffering from what has been coined “The Graduate Blues”. How do you spot if one of [...] | View Full Article Email Article |
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The Mount Isa Experience: Life as a mining graduate
9:27am Tuesday 07 December 2010 - GradConnection The Xstrata Graduate and Sumer Vacation Program & the Mount Isa Lifestyle A few weeks back I was fortunate enough to have the chance to travel up to Mount Isa and catch up with Sue Wicks from Xstrata. This wasn’t like my usual time on the road where I’ll meet with multiple employers and in [...] | View Full Article Email Article |
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GradConnection AAGE Presentation: Graduates Online
10:35am Wednesday 17 November 2010 - GradConnection Thanks to some encouragement from Josh Mckenzie of DBL fame, we decided to upgrade from a Bronze to a Gold sponsorship this year for the AAGE conference held last week in Melbourne. This of course means that you get to run a presentation/workshop session as part of the official conference program and run a workshop [...] | View Full Article Email Article |
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Measuring your Graduate Program Website!
9:53am Tuesday 16 November 2010 - GradConnection This is a quick follow up blog post with a HOW-TO guide for graduate managers and recruiters that are interested in implementing any of the tools we mentioned in our AAGE 2010 conference presentation around graduate micro-site and career site measurability. CrazyEgg Technical Install : Very Easy Internet Policy Constraints: Moderate Cost: Very Low ($9 per month) CrazyEgg measures where [...] | View Full Article Email Article |
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International Students: The billion dollar industry
8:52am Tuesday 26 October 2010 - GradConnection As most employers in Australia know international students are not hard to come by at university careers fairs. Their degrees are varied, grades are good and they’re eager to work, there’s just one problem and it’s a two letter acronym: PR or permanent residency. Currently in Australia it’s not easy for an employer to take [...] | View Full Article Email Article |
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How Graduates Find Employers Online
2:34pm Tuesday 12 October 2010 - GradConnection How graduates search for employment in Australia Onetest conducted this survey of approximately 1700 graduates who had been assessed by Onetest during the 2010 graduate recruitment season. Onetest surveyed these graduates on a whole range of different aspects of their job hunting process, but the section of particular interest to us in our space was what sources [...] | View Full Article Email Article |
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