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If you talk with any HR Manager, one of the most challenging parts of their jobs is graduate recruitment. They want to hire uni students for part-time or casual work, or they are looking for new graduates or experienced graduates for jobs.  If you advertise on one of the traditional job boards or through the press you get inundated with spam applications or applications from unqualified people – all of which have to be reviewed and answered. All of which takes time.

Most Australian HR Managers end up contacting each individual uni, hoping they will list the vacancy around the campus or on their jobs board. But people change roles, so it is a constant battle to keep up to date with who is in the career role in the Unis.

Until now.

Yesterday a colleague talked me through a brilliant new service called CareerHub Central. In Brisbane there is a great software development company that has developed the software that is used by almost every Uni as well as TAFE NSW  in Australia to run their careers boards.  They have even started expanding into the UK (love local success stories)!

The latest enhancement of this software is that now employers can log a vacancy with CareerHub Central, choose the uni’s and career areas they want the vacancy to be listed with and hit submit. The vacancy is then listed on the Uni careers boards.No more stuffing around. No more chasing contact details. No missing Unis by mistake.

You get access to over 200,000 current students and graduates – with the uni career sites getting over 1 million hits per year, and over 7500 students per day (which means students and graduates are actively looking for work from the sites).

And what makes it even better is only current students or Alumni of each uni can access the relevant uni career sites (they need their student ID to log on). This means your vacancy only is visible to the specific groups you are interested in attracting, reducing wasted time in sifting applications.

This is a seriously brilliant application that will save most HR Managers weeks of work each year. Price wise it is cheaper than an ad in one newspaper and on par with other job sites – but remember, your ad is super targeted to the groups you want to attract, so you theoretically should get an increased response rate both in quality and quantity of applicants.

The other great thing about the application is individual Government agencies and companies can list their company profile (for a fee). This means when students are researching potential employers, your company is front of mind. Great in the competitive graduate recruitment market.

If you are looking for uni students or graduates in Australia, then give CareerHub Central a go.

Until next time

Ingrid Cliff

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Heart Harmony – HR writer