Career Development Centre

Students

Your FREE online communication resource on managing your career and employment. Once you log on, you will find information on current vacancies, workshop schedules, resume builders, interview tips, articles, useful career links, events and more...

Your Career - Take Action Now!

If you think you have until your final year before you need to worry about your career, think again!

Have a look at the Skills Sought after by Employers (PDF) to know why you need to start building your employability skills as early as first year - hurry, the clock is ticking!
Your Career Timeline (PDF) at university.

Your Industry - Facts & Figures

Learn more about Your Industry and the employment prospects.
Your Industry Career Profiles.
Want to know what's the average Payrate for some of your part-time, casual work?
Don't get ripped off: Working & Pay Conditions in Australia
Know your Workplace Rights & who to contact for more information.

Resume & Application Samples & Tips

Start here with our Resume Help Checklist (PDF)
Sample resumes (PDF) available at these websites.
Tips on preparing your Resume.
What are Application Forms?
Where to find keywords to include in your resume?
List of useful action words (PDF) for your resume.
How to address the Selection Criteria?
How to demonstrate employability skills (PDF) employers seek!
Log onto CareerHub for more information and tips.

Interview Success Strategies

Start here with our Interview Help Checklist (PDF).
What you need to know about Interviews.
Tips on the Interview Process.
How to demonstrate your accomplishments in an interview?
How to Market Yourself at an Interview?
Characteristics of a strong applicant & a successful interview (ppt) .
Where else to get Practice Interviews?
Log onto CareerHub for more information and tips

Assessment Centres and Psychometric/Aptitude Tests

Understanding Assessment Centres.
Types of Exercises Involved (PDF).
How to prepare for Assessment Centres?
Some Online Sample Tests
PricewaterhouseCoopers (Big 4 Accounting Firm) tips on assessment centres.
For more information and examples of Practice Tests, log onto CareerHub and view 'Websites - Career Guidance (including testing)' or 'Info Sheets - Assessment Centres/Group Interviews'

Workshops

For details of workshops, please log onto CareerHub and see the 'Events' section. Examples of Workshops to be held include:

Resumes and Cover Letters
Interview Skills
Psychometric and Psychological Tets
Online Applications
Finding Vacation Work
Job Search Strategies
Applying to the Public Sector
Telephone Interviews
Assessment Centres

In addition to our ongoing range of workshops, in Semester 1, employers also come on campus to present 'Career Insight Workshops'. Examples of employers who presented as part of the Career Insight Workshop series in Semester 1 include Deloitte, Masterfoods, Ernst & Young and Macquarie Bank. Many of their tips are now included under 'Articles' in CareerHub.

Graduate Recruitment

Attention Second Last Year & Final Year Students!

Did you know that you need to start applying for graduate positions as early as February in your final year?!? That's right, not at the end of your course but the start of your final year. By June of your last year, many applications would have closed! So what are you waiting for?

For Career Fairs & Event dates, please click on 'Meet the Employers' tab on the left hand side.
Come into our offices to collect your FREE copy of the Graduate Opportunities and Unigrad Books (normally available in February). A soft copy is available at Graduate Opportunties and Unigrad
View 'Info Sheet' for more tips once you log onto CareerHub
For more information on the Graduate Recruitment Fair click here
For salary information and where past MQ students found employment, go to Graduate Destinations

CareerHub

Current Macquarie students

You will log into CareerHub using the SAME username and password as your myMQ Portal (eg. Student Number on your ID card). If you do not know your login details, please contact Student IT HELP at http://www.sith.mq.edu.au/

Click here to Login to the CareerHub

Recent Macquarie Graduates

Recent Macquarie Graduates login to CareerHub and click on 'Recent Graduate/Alumni Registration'. Your details will then come through to us for approval and you will be notified via email when your account is 'active'.

FREE Online Training

Online Training - Macquarie University is please to be able to offer you a free online learning program, specialising in IT courses, using the internet-based training and learning solution ElementK. For more information on courses available and how to register, log into the portal at https://my.mq.edu.au, and then go to the ‘Training and Development’ tab at the top.

Law Students - Summer Clerkship & Graduate Employment Applications

Every summer several thousand 4th year law students in NSW and interstate apply to law firms (primarily top tier commercial firms) to undertake 2-3 months of paid work experience over the summer break prior to commencing their final year of study. The firms use this as an opportunity to “scope” candidates for possible future recruitment of permanent, graduate staff. Many summer clerks are later made offers for ongoing employment to be taken up once they’ve finished their degree. As such, places as summer clerks are highly coveted by students and the firms scramble to attract the top applicants. The scheme is a collaboration of firms and law schools who all agree to abide by a set of dates and conditions to dictate how and when clerks can be recruited.

Alongside the Summer Clerkship Scheme is the Graduate Employment Program. Again this is a loose collaboration between firms who promise to “play fair” during the graduate recruitment period – the main idea being to prevent them poaching each other’s top candidates

For Law Summer Clerkship & Graduate Employment Program ‘Conditions of Participation’ click here.

List of Participating Universities available here.

List of Participating Law Firms available here.

Law Recruitment Program Scheme Dates (including closing dates) available here.

Download your law application form here.

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