GradConnection in the Media
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Graduate news: Graduates Turn to Canberra for Future Graduate Careers
Canberra is showing strong potential as a career destination for Australian University graduates according to new data released by careers website GradConnection.
From a national sample of 16,000 University graduates and students, a career in Government is the third most popular job choice across Australia, attracting 10.1% of those polled. More popular than a career in Government as a choice for grads are Accountancy (no. 1) and Engineering and Mining (no. 2).
Story published in the Canberra Times on wednesday the 14th of October and The Australian Financial Review.
Students vote accounting number one
Accounting is the top career choice for Australian university students and graduates, according to a GradConnection survey.
GradConnection analysed their database of 16,000 students and graduates who ranked industry sectors by favorability, with 13.6 per cent favouring accounting.
A further breakdown of the data showed 36.7 per cent of graduates are interested in financial accounting, 34.6 per cent are interested in tax, 30.2 per cent are interested in external audit, 29.4 per cent are interested in internal audit and 27 per cent are interested in management roles.
Business Analysis & Project Management: The Top Two Choices in IT Graduates careers
University graduates rank business analysis and project management as the two most popular jobs in the IT industry, according to new data from GradConnection, the website where companies can interact with university students and graduates about employment opportunities.
From preferences offered by 16,000 university students, the GradConnection data shows a total of 9.6% of graduates are seeking careers in IT, placing the sector as the fifth most favoured industry behind Accounting (13.6%), Engineering/Mining (11.2%), Government (10.1%) and sales/marketing (9.9%). The GradConnection data covers graduate input across 15 Australian industry sectors.
Accountancy Ranks as the no.1 career for graduates
Despite the current economic difficulties, accountancy is Australia’s most popular career choice among university students and graduates according to data from GradConnection, the website where companies can interact with university graduates about employment opportunities.
From a sample size of 16,000 students/graduates at Australian universities, 13.6% are favouring accounting as their top career choice, in front of Engineering/Mining (11.2%), Government (10.1%) and Sales/Marketing (9.9%).
Listen to Dan Purchas talking on graduates looking for jobs on Blog Talk Radio
Join Annemarie Cross and Keith Keller as they interview Dan Purchas from GradConnection about the opportunities for University Graduates in the year ahead.
Marketing industry falls short for graduates
Despite marketing and sales being the fourth most popular career choice for Australian university graduates, the industry is well behind other major sectors in efforts to attract graduate talent, according to recruitment website GradConnection.com.au.
Dan Purchas, co-director of GradConnection, indicated that the company’s data shows that among the 15 most popular careers listed by uni graduates, the marketing and sales sector appears among the least prepared with a lack of programs to attract and retain graduate talent.
What the next generation of graduates wants
A survey of graduates by GradConnection released on 15 July 2009 has important information for Australian companies and provides some optimism for the OHS profession and regulators.
A dominant element of modern employment is work/life balance. In some disciplines this is taken as workplace flexibility. In terms of workplace safety, work/life balance is a euphemism for psychosocial hazards of stress, bullying, fatigue, and workload amongst others. From this position, the survey findings showed that, when asked “What are the most important extra benefits?”, work/life balance scored the most support at almost 39%.
Graduate Jobs in Australia
A good place to start research, if you are looking for information on graduate programs, is a new site GradConnection. GradConnection is a company set up by three recent graduates to help students find graduate jobs, graduate programs, graduate positions, graduate internships and cadetships. In this site, you can browse graduate employers by location and find out about the graduate programs in the parts of Australia you want to work in. You can also browse graduate employers by industry and get direct links to the graduate programs in your area of study.
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GradConnection ranked 64th best recruitment logo in the world.
Vendor View: Kiwi invasion of the Australian recruitment market
Which country is the first to give women the right to vote? Which country carry out the most EFT-POS transactions, per capita, in the world? Which country sent the first man to the top of Everest? Still can’t figure out? Here’s an easy one – which national Cricket team is a perennial pretender? Our southern neighbour, New Zealand, of course.
Humour aside, the fact is our gutsy neighbour often punches above its weight in many fields. It looks like they are doing it in the recruitment/HR space as well. I recently ran into a couple of New Zealand companies with very unique stories to tell. Here’s a few of them:
Monash Uni 2009 Graduate Careers Fair
I ventured down to Monash Uni for their Graduate Career Fair earlier this week to visit various clients and reviewed their efforts on Employer Branding. Besides the plethora of uni students, free pens and lollies, not much has changed.
It felt like Groundhog Day with the same Government departments/agencies, professional services firms and major employers all vying for the student attention.
Promotional items featured heavily with pens, slap bands, stickers, lollies, stress balls, books, pamphlets, t-shirts, tote bags being handed out.
Graduate Program Wizard (Now the GradMaker)
GradConnection have just launched an online wizard which will help University Graduates select the best Graduate program. It compares the various programs on offer from employers and ranks them accordingly by an algorithm based on your search query called the “Grad Rank”
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Try out the live GradMaker:
Check out what all the fuss is about and see how the GradMaker works for yourself.
