Griffith University

Our Indigenous Employment Team is dedicated to assisting employers to recruit Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander graduates and undergraduates. We offer a suite of programs that can help you source, recruit and retain candidates, so why not consider tapping into our pool of talented Indigenous students?

The sustained success of our Indigenous Employment Projects has won local and national recognition and because of our years of experience and the fact that we work closely with our students and graduates, we are able to offer employers the following services:

• Consultancy on effective Indigenous recruitment methods
• Placing undergraduate cadets with your organisation  
• Promoting your graduate programs
• Sourcing graduates
• Supporting graduates and their workplace supervisors through workplace  mentoring and monitoring
• Direct emailing of vacancies to relevant Indigenous students  
• Advertising employment opportunities on our Careerboard website  
• Organising your organisation’s visits to campus to meet students and potential grads

Graduate Employment

We can assist you to employ Indigenous Graduates by:

• Providing you with details of  the degrees and specialisations of  Indigenous students  graduating in any given year or semester
• Contacting graduates directly to promote your employment opportunities
• Advertising vacancies via the Careerboard Website
• Providing  advice on attraction, recruitment, selection and retention of graduates
• Providing Transition to the Workplace Mentoring services to support graduates commencing work.

Cadetships

An effective way to increase your potential Indigenous graduate intake is to engage students before they graduate, through Indigenous cadetships. Undergraduate cadets undertake paid work placements with your organisation throughout their degree while receiving financial support for their studies under the Indigenous Cadetship Support program, an initiative of the Australian Government.

As employers you gain enthusiastic undergraduates who bring fresh ideas and perspectives to your workplace. In many cases cadets articulate into graduate employees, already acclimatised to your organisational culture and with pre-existing training. Meanwhile, cadets gain valuable degree-related work experience, enhancing their graduate employability. Cadetship completion rates strongly suggest that cadetships assist in the retention of Indigenous students both in tertiary studies and in the workplace.

To date, Griffith has placed over 200 cadets with small, medium and large employers in the public and private sectors and cadet placement outcomes and positive feedback from employers, cadets and graduates testify to the effectiveness of the cadetship program.

Contact us:

Jenny O'Neill
Manager, Indigenous Cadetships and Graduate Employment
Ph : 07 3735 5486
Email: j.oneill@griffith.edu.au

Miara Watson
Administration Officer, Indigenous Employment Projects
Ph: 07 3735 3898
Email: m.watson@griffith.edu.au

Phil Mairu
Indigenous Cadetship Mentoring Officer
Ph: 07 3735 7871
Email: p.mairu@griffith.edu.au