Graduate Employer and Recruitment Blog

Is your organisation a millennial magnet? Are you attracting high quality candidates aligned with your organisation culture and values?

Are you presenting an appealing employer brand for your millennial applicants? Millennial graduates are a tough nut to attract – they have specific expectations of their employer, job opportunity, and work environment. They won’t shy away from hours of research to find their match.

The GradConnection Top100 Employers and Future Leaders Awards are back for their fourth year – Australia’s best and brightest are officially on notice!

There are many valuable tools to help you shortlist your ideal intern, ensuring you can hire top graduate talent while they’re still only in penultimate year. Establishing strong, positive relationships with your interns will grant you early access to top talent before the crazy graduate recruitment season even begins.

A little fact about GradConnection is that every 18 months we release a new version of our site, however, the most recent - fondly know as GC5 - has been designed from scratch.

If you haven’t noticed already, we love it. It has been a fantastic way to communicate and interact with our followers and now we are giving our employers the opportunity to take over our page and broadcast live!

With the peak graduate recruitment season now upon us, students and employers alike are bracing themselves for an intense few months. Traditionally, the months of February through to April is when recruitment season is at its most robust as employers are on the hunt for the country’s top graduates.

Our employer branding rivals are often not nearly as obvious as you would think. Who is lurking in the corner convincing great students to apply to them and then snatching them from you at the last possible moment?

In order to be able to improve employability outcomes for returnee students, it is essential to know what makes an employer target a specific university. With this in mind, GradConnection put together the Returnee Report 2016 which revealed some surprising results.

Our Top100 Future Leaders awards is a national award that looks for and recognises the top students coming out of Australian universities. It generates 1000s of applications from high calibre students across the country and from those applications our partners Fusion Graduate Consultancy take each through a full graduate recruitment process. This process covers online applications, psychometric testing, video interviews where the final Top100 are then flown in from around the country to attend the final assessment centre with the winners being selected by some of Australia’s leading graduate employers.