UniSA Career Services

UniSA Career Services site provides guidance and information on career planning, job-seeking and preparing for the workforce to undergraduate students and recent UniSA graduates. These resources may be of help depending on your starting point, and are supplementary to the masterclasses undertaken as part of the program. 

 It offers:

• Career Development Tools to help you make the most of your study. Students can work through self-paced modules on:
  • Smarter Choices - about how you choose your study path and use your time at UniSA to explore your profession
  • Take Action - in your degree so that you develop your employability as you study
  • Get Connected - to employers, work experience, professionals and your graduate career

• Free appointments with career advisers
  
  
• Access to the UniSA Career Hub, where UniSA students and graduates can search for:
  • Employment opportunities
  • Upcoming events
  • Career resources
    
    
• Online guides and regular workshops on how to produce CVs and applications letters; search for employment and prepare for interviews.

UniSA RESA workshops

The UniSA Research Education Support Activities (RESA) also offer workshops in career planning:

• CV Writing for Research Position
• Building a Lifelong Research Career 
• You have survived the PhD; Establishing an academic career

Networking

At any given time, most available jobs don't appear in the newspaper or on job websites. One of the best avenues for exploring this 'hidden' job market is networking - using your friends, acquaintances and referrals. By meeting people, letting them see your face, and hearing what they have to say you are tapping into the hidden job market.

Networking involves meeting people and exchanging information to benefit you and the other parties. It means making contacts, collecting information, asking questions and maintaining your personal and professional relationships. Be positive and showing a willingness to learn; and importantly to reciprocate.

Networking can help you find a job, improve your communication skills, and increase your understanding of particular industries or organisations. Once you are an active member of the workforce, your networks will continue to help you achieve your personal and professional goals.

Learn more about networking here.