Our Graduate Program

Purpose

Graduate recruitment is one way for us to bring on board talented and qualified people who are committed to what we do and have the potential to become the next-generation senior leaders of our organisation.

Program Structure

Each graduate has their own unique program of up to 2 years duration designed to develop organisational and industry awareness and core WorkSafe role competencies. Graduate roles are permanent positions within a two year graduate program.

Graduates report to one designated ‘host team’ in an area relevant to their academic studies.  Work rotations are tailored for graduates by their host team to build operational understanding of the whole organisation with a bent towards each graduate’s chosen career pathway. 

Work…Learn…Develop

In the first year, graduates contribute to the operational or service-level work of their host and rotational teams.  This work is heavily supplemented by a structured learning and development program.  In fact, we expect that up to 50% of a graduate’s working time during the first year will be spent on learning and development activities.  

Learning and development may involve shadowing experienced officers, projects and networking with other graduates, cross-organisational committee work, rotational reports, presentations and attendance at off-job training courses. 

In the second year, graduates are assigned to more complex operational and project work, generally in their home team and with less emphasis on structured learning and development.