Recruitment & placements
Our Student Career Development department provides a range of services to business, industry and community representatives wanting to make links with VU students and graduates.
We can connect you with our students, promote your employment opportunities or raise your brand profile among the future workforce.
We have over 50,000 students and over 700 courses from our dual-sector institution, offering all levels of education, including certificates, diplomas, degrees and doctorates.
We can promote your employment opportunities through our work participation and recruitment programs, including 'learning in the workplace' opportunities for our students through industry and community projects, co-operative education and internships.
On this page
Advertise a job
Accessed by current students and recent graduates, use our online jobs board WorkWizard to advertise for:
- graduate roles
- full time, part time and casual positions (including vacation work)
- internships
- volunteering opportunities
- projects and placements (including cooperative placements).
Careers Week
Victoria University's careers expos are well attended and allow you to meet hundreds of current students and soon-to-be graduates face-to-face.
Careers Week provides an exceptional opportunity to showcase your organisation's vacation work programs, cooperative placements, paid internships, working holidays and graduate employment programs.
For more information on the next Victoria University Careers Week, please phone Student Career Development on +61 3 9919 4944 or email jobready@vu.edu.au.
Direct marketing
To promote and advertise your employment opportunities to a specific student audience direct marketing provides a simple and direct way. You can target domestic and international students by course, discipline, year level and residency status. This ensures that you effectively reach your target audience.
You can send information and promotional material to students via direct mail-out or targeted email.
Fees for direct mail-out
- Handling fee per pre-packaged envelope: $2.50 (incl. GST)
- Packaged and enveloped by VU: $3.50 (incl. GST)
- Postage fees are dependant on size, weight and destination of articles
Fees for targeted email
An administration fee of $60.00 (incl. GST) applies to each request. There is no cost or fee charged per email message.
Use of disclaimer
For all correspondence sent out by Student Career Development our disclaimer must be included within the body of your text or enclosed as a separate insert with your promotional material.
Banner advertising
Web page banner advertising is available to organisations on the Student Careers Workwizard site. You can promote graduate programs, employment vacancies, career related events or corporate logo. This helps to raise awareness of your opportunities and programs but also allows you to promote yourselves directly to VU Students and Graduates. Student Career Development offers two types of online banner advertising options.
- Horizontal banners (468 x 60 pixels) cost $150 (incl. GST) for 30 days
- Vertical banners (120 x 240 pixels) cost $100 (incl. GST) for 30 days
Information sessions
Information sessions allow you to present your organisations profile in a relaxed and personal face-to-face interaction with students who are interested in your organisation. These sessions are marketed to students from all year levels.
On-campus interviews
On-campus interviews are a great way to save time and money. They also provide a great deal of convenience for students as they can undertake interviews and application tests on campus making scheduling time simpler. Private interview or assessment rooms can be provided at any VU campus.
Forums and seminars
Presenting at careers forums and seminars is an outstanding opportunity to share your expertise and interact with VU students. Careers forums or seminars are designed to provide students with information about current labour market and industry trends and graduate skills and attributes sought by employers.
By delivering at a careers forum or seminar you can:
- help educate students about current labour market practices
- increase your organisations profile at VU
- interact with some of VU's most career motivated students
- share your experience as a professional and a recruiter
- inform potential candidates about your recruitment process and the skills and attributes you value most.
Raise your profile on campus
To promote and raise your profile on campus so that future graduates know your name we can display your promotional material on notice boards at each of our careers centers and in strategic places around our campuses. Simply send us your brochures, flyer's and posters. Student Career Development can also help you establish relationships directly with our faculties and schools along with individual students. You can get involved by:
- establishing a competition - e.g. a business case or design comp
- creating a scholarship
- sharing your expertise at a guest lecture
- sponsoring events or activities - fun ones as well as study-related!
- becoming a mentor.
Contact us
To access our range of services to promote the employment opportunities available at your organisation, please contact Student Career Development.
Libby Ainalis
Industry and Community Liaison Officer
Student Career Development
Learning, Work and Career Development
Phone: +61 3 9919 4064
Fax:+61 3 9919 4390
Email: libby.ainalis@vu.edu.au