Activating a CareerHub Employer Profile may be easier than you think

1. Send us your text and banner image material elements by email
2. The CareerHub Technical Team lays out your Profile ready for review.  You simply log back into your CareerHub Central employer account to view
3. Once you finalise messaging and layout, we activate nationally to all the CareerHub universities where your Profile will remain for 12 months

It takes approximately one week (at the moment) to prepare or update your Employer Profile in draft and only a short time to activate once you've given final approval.  Please call us on 1300 852 112 if you'd like to discuss your Employer Profile for 2012 in more detail or click here to download an information and booking form.

Centralised Job Distribution | Employer Profiles | Careers Fairs Registration | Over 900,000 Students, Graduates & Experienced Professional Alumni | 32 Australian Universities

Recently we received a very good question from an employer who asked, "Does CareerHub email all vacancies which are loaded onto the site out to students, as well as just posting them online?"

The answer is that students* registered at CareerHub universities learn about jobs in three ways:

1. They can search their job board generally when jobs are posted online
   
2. If a job has been posted by an employer which is relevant to their study area / skills then students are specifically notified when they log onto their uni's CareerHub job board
3. Some unis also dispatch newsletters to their students - as long as students are to subscribed, they will receive additional reminders about relevant jobs

* Across the 32 CareerHub universities, the 900,000+ registered users comprise students, graduates and experienced professionals (the latter have been out of uni for 1-2 years but can still log in with their uni ID to access job board information) which means that people still enrolled, finishing or who have finished university can still view jobs on their university's CareerHub job board.

Call us on 1300 852 112 if you have any questions about how job distribution works on CareerHub Central.

Centralised Job Distribution | Employer Profiles | Careers Fairs Registration | Over 900,000 Students, Graduates & Experienced Professional Alumni | 32 Australian Universities

The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) has a proud history; it is recognised by many as one of Australia's most important institutions and is a key contributor to an effective democracy model by supporting key decision-making processes.

Compared with other federal government organisations, ABS is a medium-sized agency comprised approximately 3,500 personnel nationwide. With offices in every state and territory, ABS is one of many providers of statistics (albeit the largest) used to inform, research, discuss and assist decision-making processes within government and our community.

ABS National Recruitment Manager and CareerHub Central user Mia Grogan-Burrell has a three-pronged role.  She manages the graduate recruitment team, assists with writing and implementing recruitment policy right across the ABS, and provides recruitment training to other areas of the business. Mia says, “The reason I love my job is that no two days look alike! A lot depends on the recruitment calendar but I might be organising career fairs, interviewing or writing policy.” 

We can only imagine how dynamic the recruitment team must be – with an annual intake of approximately 150 candidates turned out into the workforce following an intensive 10-month graduate programme all located initially in Canberra, Mia and her team plan six months ahead at any given time.  Before they know it, rigorous assessment and training is being undertaken before 20 candidates are identified and offered the opportunity to rotate and invest key learning time with senior stakeholders.  Whilst this final phase is still in development, it foreshadows some of the interesting offerings in the pipeline for ABS graduates.

Mia works closely with two recruitment colleagues and then as part of a wider dozen who comprise the national recruitment team.  ABS’s restructuring of the graduate programme has been earmarked as a major project in the second half of 2011 and, for Mia, this means identifying and creating integrated pathways into the ABS from the bureau’s existing vacation placement programme and extending the existing cadet programme offering to new graduates as part of their post-graduate study activities.  With an intake of 150 graduates annually, Mia is not daunted, “People management I think is always hard… and leadership!  However networking at a senior level, being involved in interesting and innovative projects such as this and being given opportunities to shine if you have aptitude make it all worthwhile.”

Not unlike many graduate recruiters operating in the current economic climate, cost effectiveness is always at the forefront of ABS’s considerations, driven by a tight labour market.  Finding candidates with the most suitable subject choices – hence those who are more desirably skilled – is another challenge, as is raising brand awareness.  Having internal and external stakeholders properly understanding what the ABS does is key recruitment initiative with Mia and her team working on the agency’s value proposition and brand, spearheaded in close consultation with their Director of Human Resources.

FY12 anticipates competition across the board for attracting and coaxing candidates through ABS’s door.  Honing the message is key and is being looked at with fresh eyes, “Graduate recruitment is one of our major recruitment drives and, as such, will always have profile in the ABS”.  Mia and her team use social media more and more, and utilise e-recruitment sites to strengthen the visibility of their vacation and cadet programs.

With ABS’s favourable work environment, staff benefits, care and attention to graduates, and culture of support, we are sure Mia and her team are in prime position to nurture some of our leaders of the future!

Mia Grogan-Burrell has worked in human resources for eight years – all of those in a recruitment-related field. Mia started her career in external recruitment specialising in the banking sector and moved to the public sector 12 months ago.

Centralised Job Distribution | Employer Profiles | Careers Fairs Registration | Over 900,000 Students, Graduates & Experienced Professional Alumni | 32 Australian Universities

Movember (the month formerly known as November) is a global charity initiative to raise awareness, support and funding for serious men’s health issues, specifically prostate cancer and male depression.  Men grow a mo (moustache) for 30 days to become walking, talking billboards for men’s health causes.

This year CareerHub's TeamMO is raising funds for men’s health through ‘Movember’. To show our commitment, we're donating our faces to the cause by growing mo's for the entire month of November and are seeking your support.

All in the name of raising vital awareness and funds for prostate cancer and male depression, one of the biggest hurdles men tackle in regards to health is a general reluctance to discuss the health issues faced – whether with a partner, mates, family or doctor. As a result, the level of awareness, understanding, support and funding lags significantly behind that of women’s health causes.

Make a donation to TeamMO’s Movember page at http://au.movember.com/mospace/1469932/. Donate online at http://au.movember.com/mospace/1469932/.  Or write a cheque payable to 'Movember' referencing our Registration ID 1469932 and posting to: Movember, PO Box 60, East Melbourne, VIC, 8002.

We are not out to raise a fortune, but every little bit helps towards a good cause. All donations over $2 are tax deductible.

As well as our own fund raising efforts, CareerHub will donate $10 for every job published through careerhub.com.au during Movember.

Thank you in advance for supporting our efforts to change the face of men's health.

Budgeting information is available for CareerHub Central's Employer Profiles on our website which we hope assists your graduate recruitment planning efforts.

CareerHub Employer Profiles generate 25,800 views per annum, so make sure your organisation is up there with them!

Phone us on 1300 852 112 if you have any questions about activating or renewing an Employer Profile in FY12, or to request a booking form.

Log into www.careerhub.com.au to review or update your account, or to check the expiry date if you have an existing Employer Profile.

Centralised Job Distribution | Employer Profiles | Careers Fairs Registration | Over 800,000 Students, Graduates & Experienced Professional Alumni | 32 Australian Universities

Aurecon is a global engineering, management and specialist technical services consultancy with around 7,000 professional employees offering in-depth local market knowledge combined with international expertise.  With growth driving demand across several industry groups for the best and brightest, the recruitment team set out to drive awareness of Aurecon and the opportunities company offers.  Graduates are engaged to work with market leading experts in a range of fields in an innovative and empowering culture, under the banner ‘Live Your Ideas’.  CareerHub recently caught up with Steve Nield, APAC Graduate Recruitment Manager to ask, “Where to from here?”

Steve tells, “The feedback from the business at that time was that the graduate programme was a little ‘ad hoc’.”  He has now been in the role for nine months and has ownership for designing Aurecon’s ANZ graduate programme with a team of 16 recruiters across the region.

Aurecon is a global company with a local focus. It is renowned for innovation and its depth and breadth of expertise across 11 industries.  CEO Paul Hardy regularly interacts with graduates on future direction and current achievements and the leadership team is committed to building a company that is leading, vibrant and global, with purposeful values that focus on fostering excellence and enhancing the communities in which its people live and work. 

Aurecon is a pioneer in the graduate recruitment arena as one of only a handful of employers offering a four year programme which is implemented globally.  Such an approach is markedly different from most. 2011 marks the first year of ‘no rotation’ – Aurecon’s 150 candidates need to know what their early career goals and desires might be.  Offering accelerated professional development brings value to the business some 18 months ahead of Aurecon’s contemporaries and spearheads professional accreditation by Engineers Australia which adds considerable weight to the graduate programme’s uniqueness.

  

   

Crucial to the redevelopment of Aurecon’s graduate programme was creating added value in the way they recruited candidates and managed expectations.  Steve says, “Aurecon is different being privately owned.  We don’t rotate graduates which therefore creates passionate people who excel earlier and have a clear idea sooner in their careers.”  This gives rise to an earlier route into specialist areas with access to career mentors who are leaders in the chosen field. With the opportunities to work on high profile projects spanning 11 market industries, which graduate wouldn’t be keen to fast track their career path?

The next two to three years will see Steve ensuring that Aurecon is on the right track with graduate recruitment, development and the alignment of its recruitment strategy with respect to the senior leadership team’s expectations.  Planning for 2012 is well underway – the graduate value proposition goes hand in hand with the future direction of the business, so understandably he is very passionate!

Aurecon’s push into social media focussing on communication with potential candidates, featuring project wins, charity work, scholarship details and answering queries through Facebook has snowballed with 1,702 followers. “Students are urged throughout the campaign to follow Aurecon on the company’s Facebook page for a behind the scenes look at what makes Aurecon unique. They can use this forum to ask questions and get additional information from our recruiters as well as stay up to date with Aurecon news and media coverage.”  The organisation is at the forefront of using cloud technology of which CareerHub Central comprises a key part of their graduate recruitment activity in this area.

Looking forward, Steve plans to consolidate the organisation’s graduate activities for the foreseeable future: measuring the effect on graduate retention, engaging with internal stakeholders and networking with external affiliates to build community and generate ideas.  We wish Steve and his team all the best with their redesigned graduate programme and the value it brings to Aurecon.

Recently we received a query from a recruiter who was concerned that he could not see his former colleague’s activity and job history on CareerHub Central. 

This was further complicated as the recruiter uses our Client Manager function to project manage and recruit for a number of corporate clients so the former colleague seemed to be ‘buried’ under layers of client management click throughs.

The easiest way to view history for a colleague who has left your organisation is to:

1. first make sure that they are still listed among your staff contacts either still activated or disabled as it doesn’t matter (sometimes when a staffer leaves and a replacement comes along we find the new contact details have overwritten the old)
2. any jobs distributed by that contact in the past will still have those, albeit expired, attached to their staff record
3. click on the summary of any job to drill down into the detail.  (If you wish to re-use the information from a past job, simply click the option Republish This Job to edit and distribute to the universities)

If you find yourself having to take over an existing CareerHub Central employer account, call us on 1300 852 112 to expedite the process and bring you up to date quickly.

Since circulating some information about CareerHub Central Employer Profiles recently, we’ve received a few queries from graduate recruiters asking how their registration differs from a ‘profile’?  Here we clarify:

• An employer account is an organisation’s free registration on CareerHub Central which allows you to log in to distribute jobs and register for university careers fairs.  The details provided in your employer account are viewable by the CareerHub university careers staff (not students) and lets them see a primary contact for your organisation in order that they might communicate with you from time to time regarding graduate recruitment matters and events.  It makes sense to log in and check your employer account details when you're not recruiting to ensure that your organisational and staff contact details are up to date.

• An Employer Profile is a separate, high profile feature which needs to be activated by the CareerHub technical support team.  For more information about Employer Profiles or to see an example, read our previous blog CareerHub Employer Profiles - get extra employer functionality in FY12.

If you’re unsure if your organisation has or had a CareerHub Central Employer Profile activated across the universities, simply log into your employer account and click View My Profile.  If you don’t have an Employer Profile you will see, “You do not currently have a CareerHub Profile. Please see About Profiles for more information about Profiles and how to obtain one”).

If you have any queries or would like to discuss activating your Employer Profile in FY12 or in 2012 please call us on 1300 852 112.

CareerHub Central – working harder to make your graduate recruitment easier.

It's even easier to connect with graduates and students directly through CareerHub Central

GRAD RECRUITERS ACT NOW!  Plan or activate a CareerHub Employer Profile for FY12.  CareerHub's extra employer functionality connects you directly to university careers activities and let's students know far more about your organisation than any regular job board can offer.

Currently CareerHub has over 800,000 university job seekers registered nationally!

(Sample CareerHub Employer Profile)

Activate your corporate profile for a period of 12 months within each university across Australia for only $5,000 including GST.  That's less than $160 per institution per annum.

If you already have or have had a CareerHub Employer Profile on CareerHub Central, update and renew your Profile for 12 months at the special rate of $3,000 including GST.

CareerHub Employer Profiles are activated individually within each university's CareerHub job board at 32 institutions and feature banners and graphics in addition to your key message or value statement about your organisation.

Your CareerHub Employer Profile is a favourite with students, graduates and experienced professionals (alumni) as you make it easy for them to find out more about your organisation to shortlist you as a possible employer.  Any jobs your post throughout the 12 month period become automatically linked to your Profile.

Quick facts

Your CareerHub Employer Profile gives you a year-round online organisational presence within the universities' CareerHub systems. Students access your Employer Profile at their institution by: 

•  browsing all employers by industry

•  browsing only employers with Profiles in an alphabetically sorted list

• through dynamic linking from any vacancies or graduate programs you have listed

• through dynamic linking from any event listings you have (e.g. careers fair attendance or on-campus presentations)

• through links from archived vacancies while researching employers and career choices

CareerHub Employer Profiles generate significantly higher traffic than print publications and are searched upon by validated students and graduates, not just general public hits, Google searches or robots that distort other general public website statistics:

• Students using CareerHub read over 23,000 jobs per day
• CareerHub Central puts you in direct contact with careers services AND students on each campus
• Students,graduates and experienced professionals (alumni) access CareerHub exclusively using their own unique university identification
• In 2010/11, CareerHub Employer  Profiles generated over 25,800 views

We look forward to you using CareerHub Central to make recruiting students and graduates easier. To find out more about creating or renewing an Employer Profile, call us on 1300 852 112 or email profiles@careerhub.com.au.

Over a decade ago Dee Hughes sat at his student employment desk frustrated by the lack of tools available to provide streamlined careers services to students and careers service staff.

CareerHub was born after a short walk to the university book store to purchase an ‘Introduction to Programming’ book.

Now CareerHub is the largest and most active student / graduate network in Australia and New Zealand, and has a growing number of universities in the United Kingdom.

CareerHub still retains its focus; advantage and uniqueness in that it is the software used by the universities themselves to communicate jobs and careers-related information to their students.

We look forward to many years ahead of us of working with universities to help link employers and students.

Thanks to everyone for all your support in helping us to grow in the last decade!