This Month
LinkedIn’s top five jobs for graduates – and how much they pay
Accounting was one of the top five jobs for graduates this year, based on annual growth in hiring activity on the professional networking site LinkedIn.
- Euan Black
November
Inaugural AFR university ranking will contain many surprises
The assessment will be the first in Australia that recognises traditional notions of excellence alongside important measures of student satisfaction and equity.
- Julie Hare
- Exclusive
- University
The secret plan to control what uni students can study
A major review is considering an external body to oversee all aspects of universities, potentially stripping them of their autonomy and independence.
- Julie Hare
No more 25pc pay increases for lawyers as market turns
The era of big pay rises and sign-on bonuses, and junior lawyers playing firms off against each other, is over as a flat legal market takes its toll.
- Maxim Shanahan
October
What this leading law firm wants in a summer clerk
The roles are highly sought after, as law firms will generally draw the majority of their new starters from their pool of clerks.
- Edmund Tadros
September
Law firms hire graduates at near-record levels
Law firms maintained near-record graduate hiring levels in 2023, despite a slowing legal market.
- Maxim Shanahan
August
I want to switch industries but have no contacts. What do I do?
Changing your industry, occupation and employer in one single move is not easy. Career coach Dr Edwin Trevor-Roberts recommends breaking it into more manageable chunks.
- Euan Black
May
Pandemic grads love the office. But bosses say they lack one skill
Employers have strengthened graduate onboarding programs with more sessions on business basics such as email writing and business etiquette.
- Euan Black
April
Which university produces the most business leaders?
A well-known sandstone and a small private university share top honours as producing Australia’s most bosses.
- Julie Hare
- Opinion
- University
I’m a law graduate, but my uni didn’t prepare me for the real world
University law schools are big on theory but light on teaching students how to navigate the very tricky real world of the legal profession.
- Stefanie Costi
- Analysis
- Best places to work
The war for top talent remains a key battle for businesses
This year’s AFR BOSS Best Places to Work list has again shown a variety of trends that employers are adopting to help retain and attract top talent.
- Dr Amantha Imber
Here’s some advice for graduates: it pays to think big
Male graduates have to apply for many more jobs and do many more interviews than women to find their first post-uni job, a survey has found.
- Julie Hare
February
- Exclusive
- Graduate jobs
The grad app that’s like Tinder for jobs
By using algorithms that match mutual values and motivations of employers and jobseekers, jobs platform Hatch seeks to widen the opportunities available to both.
- Julie Hare
These uni courses yield big grad salaries - but low satisfaction
Students in all disciplines often don’t like the degree they graduate with, but do high salaries make up for their disappointment?
- Julie Hare
- Exclusive
- Education
Graduates cherry-pick jobs as salaries rise by 9pc
Never has the graduate recruitment market put so much power in the hands of university leavers. And they are reaping the benefits.
- Julie Hare
December 2022
How SA’s merger will create a ‘university of the future’
The planned merger of South Australia’s two biggest universities will create a mega-institution that will drive the future economy, says Peter Malinauskas.
- Julie Hare
November 2022
Big four accountants ramp up graduate recruitment by 85pc
Some top firms such as PwC, RSM and BlueRock more than doubled their intakes as the battle for white-collar talent continued.
- Updated
- Hannah Wootton
October 2022
Students ignore costs in choosing university study: analysis
An exhaustive analysis of student preferences in NSW between 2014 and 2022 found there was almost zero change in student enrolment patterns after the introduction of Job Ready Graduates.
- Julie Hare
This university produces the highest-paid graduates
Regional universities are producing some of Australia’s best-paid graduates, but one city-based university is head and shoulders above the rest.
- Julie Hare
August 2022
Finance brokers top list of jobs most at risk of automation
Automation could put accountants, finance brokers, pilots, pharmacists and meteorologists out of a job within 10 years, according to new data.
- Gus McCubbing
