UNIGRAD IS HIRING

Hello e-listeners!

unigrad is in need of some excellent people to join our ever expanding team.  Available immediately are two roles, one for a Web Developer and one as a Business Development Manager.  We are looking for some exceptional candidates so if you know someone who would fit (or might you fit yourself) check out the links below for our job advert:

WEBSITE DEVELOPER

BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT MANAGER

We look forward to hearing from you!!

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It's a tough year for students..or is it?

The GFC brought a new trend to the market that employers haven't seen for a few years.

A nervous graduate.

For the past 3 years strong employers have been focusing significant time and resources on ensuring their market-share knows who they are and developing leadership and development programs that gets their brand in a competitive marketplace. Employers couldn't depend on providing the highest salary to bring them the best grads. [read full article]

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Its' that time of the year again

So you think you've finished for the year...think again!

It feels like the careers and vacation fairs have only just finished and that you have finally stopped hearing the ping of your inbox hitting yet again, but I hate to break it to you..the cycle has begun again. [read full article]

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FEMA Finalists!

Unimail was a finalist in the recent Fairfax FEMA award for the BEST PROMOTION OF PUBLIC & EDUCATION SECTOR CAREERS category with an innovative campaign for the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC).

“ASIC is a very conservative organisation – as the watchdog over the financial sector it has to be. As such, it isn’t an obvious choice for students looking for employment. We created a communications campaign that reflected the strength of the organisation while also projecting the image of a young, culturally diverse and really dynamic group of people. The campaign worked. It fed ASIC 2,325 well qualified responses, 25 of whom were taken on.” [read full article]

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Attracting Grads Around the World - an International Recap

After traveling throughout the US, UK and Canada, our team has found some interesting results in the graduate market.

Firstly, Australia is kicking butt and taking numbers. Australia's unemployment rate doesn't have a sniff on the UK or the US, and doesn't forecast to get much worse in the up and coming graduate recruitment cycle.
To give you an example of the current results, the AGR conference in Wales in June revealed statistics to show the following: [read full article]

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Social Media and Discrimination?

It surprises me that there hasn't been an uproar of discrimination cases throughout the world with employers using social media sites to "filter" and "assess" candidates prior to interview.

Most employers although using facebook as an attraction method, are also using it to filter their candidates prior to even their initial stages of an interview and why shouldn't they? Facebook and other social media sites provide direct representations of who their candidates are in public without the veneer of an interview room and a high quality suit. In saying that, some people have their facebook photo public in their birthday suit? Should this define how and who we recruit? When did the line become so fuzzy between personal life and professional? [read full article]

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Vacation Fairs 2009

We're in the midst of vacation fairs yet again. You see, this is my 11th year of them, and I've seen a few changes.

Interestingly, vac fairs to me, represent the graduate student up and coming. You can tell what kind of student you will be dealing with by attending and participating with vacation students and each year is vastly different. [read full article]

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