Advertised positions
Some employment opportunities will be advertised in the print or electronic media, and/or are otherwise in the public domain of awareness. This includes:
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Positions advertised in print media, or on-line on the internet either through dedicated recruitment organisations such as www.seek.com and www.careerone.com.au, or on individual company web sites.
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Advertisements placed in print or electronic media by recruitment or personnel agencies.
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Dedicated Graduate Recruitment activity is conducted annually by employers. Larger employers, in particular, and many government departments seek to employ university graduates/final years for recruitment programs. These programs tend to be approximately 2 years of training – usually including rotations around the different departments in the organisation. They are paid positions.
Graduate recruitment is advertised on MyCareerPlan and in the print media, on the internet, or on the organisation's website. Main recruitment activity occurs from March to June, and again from August to December. Employer requirements vary; mostly people are recruited in their final year, or year after graduation. However graduates can be recruited as early as the second year of your program.
Note: Professional recruiting organisations have anecdotal evidence that approximately 20% - 40% of all the available work available at any given time is advertised. This means that somewhere between 60% - 80% of all available positions are never advertised.
Most people concentrate virtually all their job searching activity on advertised vacancies. If you do this the disadvantages are:
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You are in competition with everyone else who has responded to the same job advertisement as you.
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Missing out on the potentially huge number of employment opportunities that haven't been advertised, that might be suitable for you.