Thursday 11 March 2010

HR/Software Eng Graduate Career Links

Careers fairs are so depressing. Coles had computer science listed as one of their targetted disciplines, but when Suzy went to ask them about it, they just bluntly said they're outsourcing it. Most places targetting "all engineering" make an acception for software. =(

Anyway, I'm compiling a list of all the places that will accept software engineering/psych students. I think I would prefer to go the software eng path, but a lot of people said that the hard part is getting into the company, and once you're in, you can transfer to another department if you don't like it, so I'm thinking I should keep my options open and apply for HR stuff in the event that if I don't anything else, maybe I can transfer if I don't like HR. This isn't a complete list, as I'm leaving out the places that I'm not interested in (I'm not particularly interested in teaching right now, for one). Also, as I'm an Australian citizen, I've included the places that don't take international students.

Companies taking software eng/comp sci graduates (in order of closing dates for apps)

IBM 2010 Graduate IT Consultant
IBM 2011 Graduate IT Consultant
IBM 2011 Graduate IT Specialist (has 3 different jobs listed, one of the closing dates is listed as the 30th of April 2009, but the other two don't seem to have one listed, GG copy+paste)
Optiver Graduate Application Engineer (Sydney placement, no closing date listed)
Optiver Graduate Developer (Sydney placement, no closing date listed)
PricewaterhouseCoopers (now - whenever they get enough applicants)
Oracle (no closing date listed, but first round interviews are in June, so I'm guessing late April, early May - thanks Paul for forwarding this to me!)
Deloitte (now - 17th of March, 2010)
KPMG (now - 18th of March, 2010)
Macquarie (now - 19th of March, 2010)
ANZ (now - 26th of March, 2010)
NAB (now - 28th of March, 2010)
Westpac (Sydney placement, now - 28th of March, 2010)
Ericsson (now - 31st of March, 2010)
Mars (now - 4th of April, 2010)
AXA (now - 4th of April, 2010)
Commonwealth Bank (Sydney placement - now - 6th of April, 2010)
Telstra (now - 6th of April, 2010)
Victorian Government (now - 9th of April, 2010)
Coles (now - 11th of April, 2010 - despite what they said to Suzy, they also have IT listed on their website, under the store support graduate program)
Defence Science & Techonology Organisation (now - 12th of April, 2010)
Australian Bureau of Statistics (now - 16th of April, 2010)
Origin Energy (now - 16th of April, 2010)
Defence Materiel Organisation (now - 18th of April, 2010)
Centrelink (now - 27th of April, 2010)
Bechtel Corporation (now - 30th of April, 2010)
IBM, (now - 30th of April, 2010)
ATO (now - 5th of May, 2010)
BAE Sytems (Canberra placement - now - 28th of May, 2010 - have to find this one by doing a job search. There are also placements in Adelaide)
Attorney General's Office (29th of April - 31st of May, 2010)
Aldi (31st of Dec)

Companies taking psych/HR graduates (in order of closing dates for apps)

Deloitte (now - 17th of March, 2010)
KPMG (now - 18th of March, 2010)
Macquarie (now - 19th of March, 2010)
NAB (now - 28th of March, 2010)
Westpac (Sydney placement, now - 28th of March, 2010)
National Foods (now - 31st of March, 2010)
Shell (1st of April, 2010)
Mars (now - 4th of April, 2010)
OneSteel (now - 6th of April, 2010)
Commonwealth Bank (Sydney placement - now - 6th of April, 2010)
Telstra (now - 6th of April)
Victorian Government (now - 9th of April, 2010)
Defence Science & Techonology Organisation (now - 12th of April, 2010)
Centrelink (now - 27th of April, 2010)
ATO (now - 5th of May, 2010)
Attorney General's Office (29th of April - 31st of May, 2010)
Aldi (31st of Dec, 2010)
Hays (no closing date that I could find)


Note: I've only included the ones that had information at the careers fair on Wednesday, but I'll update the list as I come across more.

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