Archive for February, 2010
If you have applied to ProGrad over recent weeks and have not yet heard from us, please contact us directly on 02 8235 8300 to ensure that your application receives immediate attention. Due to an influx of applications, we have been finding it difficult to make contact with all applicants. We are therefore providing priority [...]
ProGrad are currently looking to grow their internal sales training team with an experienced sales trainer. Due to the demand of our Graduate model and an increase in demand for tailor-made training programs we are delighted to advertise this role. More details about the position can be found here. We’d like to speak to any [...]
ProGrad and employers know that recent graduates who fall into the Gen Y category are technically savvy and are established online on various social networking sites. This can be a great advantage in entering the workforce as you will be able to offer the company your online knowledge. However graduates beware! Your potential employer is looking [...]
ProGrad received this email from a recently placed graduate who is several weeks into his new role: Hi Virginia, I just thought it’s about time to say hello from my new workplace- thanks to you! Week 3 is coming to an end, and to be honest I really loving it here. It’s exactly what [...]
For any recent University graduates looking for a careers portal that is specifically designed for graduate job seekers, look no further. ProGrad own and maintain a graduate job website www.graduatejobs.com.au and target advertisers specifically looking for grads. We all know the frustrations experienced during the job hunt that follows University. Roles are few and far [...]
When attending interviews, you are in essence selling yourself. You are the product and you need the interviewer to buy into you. Think about yourself as a product. What is your brand? How do you represent your brand? What does your brand say about you? Are you a premium brand? What are the key objectives [...]
After graduating University some people like to travel, some like to get straight into the job hunting and go through 20 plus interviews, but people like David Maumfell decide to let someone else go through the stress of job hunting for them. David just started with a multibillion dollar company only four weeks after he [...]
Most of the employees at ProGrad have themselves been through the assessment day. So they know exactly how you’re feeling! It is very different on the other side I must add. Now when I do the assessment days for ProGrad, I wonder what I was originally so nervous about! It is not as intimidating as [...]
At the end of the day we were separated into two rooms and I discovered that I did not make it through the assessment day. My ego a little bruised I decided to take it all down as experience. I did learn some valuable tips on how to present myself in an interview and ProGrad [...]
I turned up to the assessment day a jittering bunch of nerves. Around me were another 39 graduates dressed in their suits and fiddling with their name badges. Realizing everyone was feeling like me I started to relax and then the day began… I received a call two days earlier about my job application and [...]
