‘Bolstering your workforce with undergraduates – Using Industry Placements by working with University of Newcastle’s Workplace Learning Program’

Is your business searching for degree qualified people? Are you discovering that you can’t find them, or securing them is proving too expensive?

There are many benefits to accessing them earlier. That is, before they are even qualified.

Some of those benefits include:

  • They aren’t expensive and represent excellent value for little risk.
  • Because yours might be the first workplace related to their learning, you get to shape their performance and expectations in the workplace – they don’t come with previous unwanted baggage.
  • They would love to find employment/experience relating to what they learn – it’s helpful to their learning, and they’re eager to please.
  • They can be very productive for the time they spend in the workplace and can bring fresh thinking and innovative ways of doing things.
  • By teaming them with other workers such as trade qualified staff, they gain real world practical experience, overcoming futre frustrations your trade qualified people may have previously experienced with those only with degrees but lacking hands-on practical experience.
  • By the time they graduate into the product you are already seeking, they are already highly useful and productive and there is no further sunken cost in their onboarding.

Leveraging the workplace learning program through the University of Newcastle is an opportunity to gain access to such talent. Come along to hear about the value that can be added to your business when you invest in motivated and enthusiastic students, by working with the University to help identify those people.

The University’s Associate Director of Careers and Employability will provide an overview of the workplace learning program and opportunities to gain access to fresh perspectives and the latest research, all while building a talent pipeline that could support your vision for the future of your organisation and industry. This presentation will be followed by a panel discussion with current industry partners of various sizes and disciplines, who will provide insights into the benefits and practicalities of hosting a student in your workplace.

The timing of this forum is deliberate, to ensure that the roadmap and timeline you develop to acquire student-based talent is harmonised with the University’s academic year and student availability. If you are considering recruiting or taking on students even just a little, you are urged to come to this event. This is also about ALL degree students, not just those involved in pursuit of STEM based careers.

Who should attend?

  • Business Owners
  • General Managers/Managing Directors/CEOs
  • HR/P&C Managers
  • Line Managers
  • Technology Officers
  • Marketing/Communications Managers