This Month
The graduate employment boom is over
Akshaya Josy has a master’s degree but can’t find a job in her field. It’s part of a recruitment trend that has started showing up at the big four accounting firms.
- Euan Black
September
The two trends making Gen Z tech grads less ‘job ready’
Employers remain satisfied with the quality of today’s graduates. But they believe two forces are working against them.
- Euan Black
May
Law graduates are about to crack a salary record
Top-tier graduates will earn more than $100,000 this year – in Sydney only – but law firms remain tight-lipped on pay rates despite moves towards transparency elsewhere.
- Maxim Shanahan
April
Graduate jobs market comes off the boil
Australia’s graduate job market has been red-hot, but there are early signs that the number of roles has started to wane.
- Updated
- Julie Hare
February
How to get a job at a top-tier law firm
Mere legal ability is no longer enough to secure a prized top-tier clerkship. Firms are looking for excellence in all aspects of life. Here’s our guide.
- Maxim Shanahan
- Exclusive
- Top Graduate Employers
EY top of the pile for graduates
Despite a torrid year for the big management consultancies, they remain in strong demand as future employers.
- Julie Hare
Big recruiters stay ahead as grads shop around for best offers
Consultancies remain the big employer of graduates, whose preferences post-pandemic are favouring hybrid work roles.
- Julie Hare
Law firms get innovative in talent search
Competition for top grads is fierce, while pathways to law are widening.
- Anders Furze
Skill needs of professions underpins grad intake
Early-career recruitment is a key workforce strategy for accounting and professional services firms.
- Anders Furze
Applying with their ears pinned back
Faced with a cost-of-living crisis, and HECS debt-heavy, graduates are hunting far and wide for the right career opportunity.
- Julie Hare
October 2023
- Exclusive
- Consulting
Strategy firm Bain delays new starters by up to 10 months
The consulting company’s Australian office has deferred the start dates of its roughly two dozen new employees until as late as October next year.
- Updated
- Edmund Tadros
September 2023
Law firms hire graduates at near-record levels
Law firms maintained near-record graduate hiring levels in 2023, despite a slowing legal market.
- Maxim Shanahan
February 2023
- Exclusive
- Skills shortage
The grad app that’s like Tinder for jobs
By using algorithms that match mutual values and motivations of employers and jobseekers, jobs platform Hatch seeks to widen the opportunities available to both.
- Julie Hare
January 2023
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- Careers
RBC readies first graduate scheme as talent war heats up
The Canadian bank is growing more reliant on juniors after it cracked the top 10 in Australian M&A and equity capital markets for the first time in years.
- Aaron Weinman
November 2022
Atlassian workforce gets younger amid graduate hiring boom
The tech giant has experienced a surge in the number of younger workers on its staff as part of a wider bump in graduate employment linked to continuing skills shortages.
- Euan Black
Big four accountants ramp up graduate recruitment by 85pc
Some top firms such as PwC, RSM and BlueRock more than doubled their intakes as the battle for white-collar talent continued.
- Updated
- Hannah Wootton
October 2022
Students ignore costs in choosing university study: analysis
An exhaustive analysis of student preferences in NSW between 2014 and 2022 found there was almost zero change in student enrolment patterns after the introduction of Job Ready Graduates.
- Julie Hare
This university produces the highest-paid graduates
Regional universities are producing some of Australia’s best-paid graduates, but one city-based university is head and shoulders above the rest.
- Julie Hare
August 2022
Finance brokers top list of jobs most at risk of automation
Automation could put accountants, finance brokers, pilots, pharmacists and meteorologists out of a job within 10 years, according to new data.
- Gus McCubbing
July 2022
Here’s why finding a graduate is about to get even harder
Companies face some of the toughest hiring conditions as student jobseekers demand more money and better perks.
- Joanna Mather and Gus McCubbing