Careers Fairs
Careers Fairs provide you with a chance to liaise with employers who are recruiting from your discipline and can offer you a graduate or vacation work position.
They are great networking opportunities and you should make sure you prepare beforehand and research the employers who are attending the event. You will make a good impression if you have some insightful and pertinent questions to ask! Interacting with employers has more information.
Our two main careers fairs are:
- Graduate Careers Fair
- Employment Experience Fair
Graduate Careers Fair
This is our largest event and is staged early in semester one at the Royal Exhibition Building, Carlton Gardens. You can usually expect 100 to 150 employers to participate.
The majority of employers attending the Graduate Careers Fair offer structured graduate employment programs and actively recruit final year students to commence full-time employment with them in the following year.
You’ll get to meet a variety of employers including accounting, law and insurance companies, investment banks, management consultancies as well as local, state and federal government departments.
Go to Online Career Tools (Seminar Downloads) to obtain a list of organisations who attended in 2012.
Employment Experience Fair
This fair gives you the chance to connect with employers who offer a variety of work experience opportunities including:
- vacation employment programs
- cooperative placements, cadetships and internships
- international graduate employment and work experience
- working holidays including paid and unpaid work opportunities both overseas and within Australia.
Go to Online Career Tools (Seminar Downloads) to obtain a list of organisations who attended in 2011.
Other careers fairs
- Community Volunteer Fair: organised by the university’s Leadership & Volunteering unit, this event will be held in second semester and show cases a variety of voluntary work opportunities with not-for-profit organisations.
- Virtual Careers Fair (VCF): organised by CareerOne, this is an online event that is useful for regional students, external students and metropolitan students who are unable to attend our Graduate Careers Fair. In 2012 the VCF was held from 19 March - 1 April.
Austrade China Careers Fair
The Australian Trade Commission (Austrade, 澳大利亚驻沪总领馆商务处) will organise the first Careers Fair with a local HR company in Shanghai on 21 – 22 April 2012. The Careers Fair is an excellent opportunity for you to explore career opportunities in mainland China and identify future career pathways.
At this fair, you will have access to:
- top enterprises offering job opportunities in China nationwide
- a seminar session by HR experts on resumé writing and interview skills
- a chance to learn successful careers stories shared by veteran Australian alumni
Who can apply?
Only students who have completed their graduate/postgraduate study from a participating Australian university in 2011 are eligible to apply. More details of the careers fair will be available through www.studyinaustralia.gov.au/China in early 2012.