Students and grads

Graduate and internship advice for Australian students

How to land an internship, get through the interview and the psychometric tests, and win a place in a grad program or the public service. Free guides from The Aussie Corporate.

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Public service graduate programs

Australian Public Service and agency graduate programs, and how their assessment centres run.

Public service graduate programs

Who can apply, when applications open, the selection stages and how APS assessment centres run.

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APS levels and pay

What APS 1 to EL 2 mean, the published salary bands and what APS 6 and EL 1 interviews test.

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Which newsletters carry our student advice?

Our career advice for students also runs in these two newsletters. Subscribe on their own pages.

BSoc Bulletin

The UNSW Business Society's newsletter, with a career advice section from The Aussie Corporate.

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Capital W Bulletin

The weekly newsletter of Capital W, the UNSW Women in Business Society, with its events, sponsorship opportunities and career pieces by The Aussie Corporate.

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Questions students ask

The Aussie Corporate, the team behind the Flat White and Pick & Scroll newsletters. Each guide lists the sources it was written from, such as government pages and employers' own careers pages.

No. Every guide is free to read, with no sign-up.

Our graduate salary survey asks graduates what they earn in their first year. The 2025 graduate salary results are still online too.

Advice and guides covers pay, leave, contracts and the unwritten rules of corporate Australia.

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