Find the right job after graduating

If you’ve almost finished tertiary study or have recently graduated, a temporary graduate job is a good way to gain experience in your area.

Graduate jobs:

• give you work experience
• help you learn relevant skills
• can lead to permanent job offers.

Graduate jobs can fill up quickly, so it’s worth looking and applying for them even before you graduate.

Use these job search websites to help you hunt for graduate opportunities. 

Type “graduate” into the search field to narrow your search.

• Seek website – search for graduate jobs throughout New Zealand
• Government Jobs Online website – search for graduate jobs in the New Zealand public sector

Internships give you experience in a real workplace and are usually offered to students, often during the summer break.

They’re a great way to make connections with people in the industry you want to get into.

• New Zealand Internships website – information about internships
• Intern NZ Intern Oz website – apply for internships in New Zealand and Australia

Graduate programmes and cadetships are similar to internships but provide on-the-job training for a specific role.

They’re offered by government organisations and private companies.

• GradNewZealand website – find graduate jobs and graduate programmes
  

Employers use LinkedIn to find and contact new graduates.

Open an account and create a profile that says you’re looking for graduate opportunities.

• How to stand out on LinkedIn

• How to become a work-ready graduate
• The beginner’s guide to job-hunting ebook
• Job vacancy and recruitment websites
• Sign up to our e-newsletter for job hunting tips delivered straight to your inbox

Sources 

• Europe Language Jobs, ‘Twenty-three Reasons to do an Internship’, 1 October 2018, (www.europelanguagejobs.com).
• New Zealand Immigration, ‘Job Websites & Recruitment Companies’, 5 April 2019, (www.newzealandnow.govt.nz).
• Seek, ‘About us’, accessed August 2019, (www.seek.co.nz).