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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| Previous Next |  |
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Online Discussion Forums and Graduate Recruitment
10:41am Tuesday 05 October 2010 - GradConnection From all of the graduate recruiters that we’ve met over the past couple of years, there is one common recurring topic that many have brought up that hasn’t’ really had much attention paid to it formally and that topic is Online Discussion Forums. Whirlpool These are the two words that seem to strike fear into any Australian graduate recruiter ‘Whirlpool [...] | View Full Article Email Article |
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We’re growing, meet Murad our new starter…
10:36am Friday 01 October 2010 - GradConnection What’s been happening at GradConnection? We’re over 2 years old now and gone from 0 employers on our site to over 70 and it’s only going to keep going up! So to make sure we can handle our own growth and give all our graduate employers the best service possible we’ve had to take on an [...] | View Full Article Email Article |
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FEMA’s 2010 – Grad Roundup
9:54am Wednesday 22 September 2010 - GradConnection The FEMA awards a.k.a. The Fairfax Employment Marketing Awards were held in Sydney last Friday night on the 17th of September. I figured it might be worth writing up a brief post on this as there are a range of direct employers as well as recruitment marketing agencies that are actively involved in the Graduate [...] | View Full Article Email Article |
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Australian National Careers Fair Schedule 2011
10:31am Friday 03 September 2010 - GradConnection The AAGE being their usual helpful selves released the 2011 Careers Fair Schedule last week. This is only my 3rd year on the Grad recruitment campaign trail coming up but so far each year has brought different formats in terms of the schedule the fairs are held within. The 2011 Careers Fair Schedule The easiest way to list out [...] | View Full Article Email Article |
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AAGE Grad Panel – Brisbane 2010
1:11pm Thursday 12 August 2010 - GradConnection I recently attended the AAGE Grad Panel up in Brisbane. This was the second AAGE Grad Panel that I’ve been to, the last being in 2009 in Sydney. If you haven’t been to a Grad Panel, the basic concept is that 4 – 5 different employers bring along one of their recently hired graduates and the [...] | View Full Article Email Article |
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Graduate Industry on Twitter :: Part 2
1:28pm Friday 16 July 2010 - GradConnection Well it has been nearly a year since I put out my first post for Grad Managers on how to get started on Twitter. Since then quite a bit has changed in the industry, with some of my favourite tweeters leaving the industry and many new ones rolling in. So this post is more than [...] | View Full Article Email Article |
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Lies, Damn Lies & Statistics – Grad Recruitment Edition
3:15pm Tuesday 11 May 2010 - GradConnection Statistics, they can be dangerous at times. We’ve been hearing from a number of people in the industry in the last week about one of our competitors in the graduate marketing space, specifically Graduate Opportunities, and how they are using statistics to compare our website to their website. We thought that we should clarify things in a [...] | View Full Article Email Article |
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Measuring Your Graduate Careers Site
10:51am Wednesday 05 May 2010 - GradConnection It’s always hard to comprehend the size of the internet when you can’t physically see who’s online as opposed to seeing exactly who’s in front of you at the checkout in the supermarket, but it’s becoming more and more transparent with all the measurement tools out there such as Google Analytics and our favourite at [...] | View Full Article Email Article |
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Social Media Reference Checking
11:28am Thursday 15 April 2010 - GradConnection Here in Australia we’re transitioning from the application phase to the selection and assessment phase in the graduate recruitment cycle for many companies and an article in the last few weeks has been sticking in my mind that I thought might be relevant for some of you out there. It’s a contentious subject, do you as [...] | View Full Article Email Article |
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Graduates and your Internet Policy
11:37am Wednesday 24 March 2010 - GradConnection When I was at university, one in five people had laptops in their lecture theatres, there was no university wireless internet, and batteries lasted about 30 minutes. This has changed, and changed dramatically. I was walking through the lecture theatres at Melbourne university and every seat had a power outlet and a network plug available. Our intern [...] | View Full Article Email Article |
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