Graduate Employer and Recruitment Blog

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.

Today is an exciting day for GradConnection as we launch our third installment of the Top100 Most Popular Graduate Employers in the Australian Financial Review (AFR).

This year marks GradConnection’s 3rd annual Top 100 Graduate Employers of Australia Awards in conjunction with Fairfax’s Australian Financial Review. The list ranks the most popular graduate programs in Australia as voted by student clicks on the GradConnection site.

The GradConnection Returnee Report 2016 produced some surprising results, as top Chinese and Hong Kong-based employers were asked which universities they targeted when selecting their returnee graduates.

GradConnection is proud to be an Event Partner for The Big Meet careers fairs in 2017. The Big Meet is a one-day careers fair which is promoted to all students from all universities in the host city. All Big Meet events are organised by the Australian Association of Graduate Employers (AAGE).