It’s the end of the financial year already. The sales are on, vacuum cleaners are half price, cars are driving out on their own and with a new year approaching many companies have their hopeful hats on ready to go from strength to strength, while others prepare to pick up with a fresh start. This [...]
So you have finished your degree, maybe travelled a little, are well and truly sick of your part time job and decided you are finally ready to bite the bullet and get into full time work. But what job is that? If you are a recent graduate looking to get into the business sector, it [...]
Excuses, excuses! ProGrad have recently discovered a disturbing statistic- there is a shocking rate of Grandparents coming down with a serious illness on a Thursday morning. Also peaking on a Thursday prior to 9am is the rate of graduate job offers. Who are all these companies that call you before business hours to offer you [...]
Top 5 misconstrued ideas about your dream job: So you’ve just finished uni and are looking to launch your dream career to start making that expensive degree work for you, but are your ideas about space age offices and working for a fortune 100 company realistic? Sadly you won’t be on the board of directors [...]
Dressed to kill Coming along to assessment day with ProGrad, or out to a job interview trying your luck as a fresh faced graduate in the corporate world? I’m sure you’ve done all your preparation- you know your strengths, weaknesses, why you want the role, but have you given a thought to the [...]
It would be great if your success in a company was purely based on completing your day to day duties in a competent manner. As we all know, this is only half of the picture. When it comes to increased responsibility, new challenges, pay increases and a career progression plan, you may need to take [...]
ProGrad have started to see a huge increase in demand for technical graduates to enter roles in the areas of helpdesk, consulting, analyst, engineering and general technical support over the last 12 months. With technical people often spending more time on the telephone and on site with key clients, they are regularly confronted with potential [...]
How to prepare for the assessment day: ProGrad are Australia’s only dedicated graduate assessment, placement and training company. We receive hundreds of applications each week from graduates looking to join the ProGrad program. Our filtering process begins with a CV Screen and a telephone interview. In order to be selected to attend an assessment centre, [...]
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 [...]