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Graduate Talent Connection & Engagement Programs.
Your Advantage in Early Career Talent.

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Our partnership with Readygrad absolutely enabled us to create a program, which was well-received by universities, students and our business. Readygrad took on our design concept and added their expertise and knowledge to deliver a program that provided ample opportunities for our students to learn more about themselves, our business, and the future of work whilst developing key professional skills.


Graduate Program Manager
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Introducing Ignite - a new approach to deeper engagement with early career talent.

Readygrad has drawn on its unique positioning between universities and employers to create better ways to access, influence, develop and retain graduate talent.

What is Ignite?

Ignite is a series of tailored, flexible and scalable development program solutions, for selected university students, branded by your organisation and delivered by Readygrad. The programs can be independent or integrated depending on your requirements.

 

Target institutions

Connect early with
targeted talent

Professional development programs delivered to a target cohort of students. Build your employer brand through early connections with students as a pipeline for your internship, vacation and graduate recruitment campaigns.

Build a bigger brand

Engage and develop your interns for success

Differentiate your internship programs and improve intern to graduate conversion through blended development programs that boost intern engagement and experience.

Prepare and engage

Retain your talented
graduate cohorts

Maximise graduate retention, after offer and after starting, with development programs that keep them positively engaged and prepare for the study to work transition.

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It was essential for us to partner with a provider to help us support our interns. We looked at the market to see who could assist us, and it was clear that Readygrad were leaders in the graduate recruitment space. They developed and tested a few different graduate recruitment models, and we liked their innovative approach. Importantly, there was a great cultural alignment between Vicinity and Readygrad; they understood our business quickly and what we needed to achieve with our internship program - a no-brainer!


General Manager
Organisational Development
Vicinity Centres

How can Ignite work for you?

To find out which Ignite program is best suited for your business, click on the appropriate graduate recruitment stage.

Ignite Connect

Designed for students starting from first year, Ignite Connect develops the employability skills and workplace readiness of your targeted cohorts to enhance your employer brand and attraction strategy. Allows an employer to create a longer and deeper connection with prospective talent that can influence brand and role perception.

IDEAL FOR EMPLOYERS THAT:

- Want to influence passive graduate talent early in their journey
- Have challenges attracting the right graduate talent
- Need to deliver on a diversity agenda, such as females in STEM
- Have critical, hard to fill graduate disciplines
- Have limited graduate program market awareness and on-campus presence
- Have limited internal resources and/or expertise to create an earlier graduate pipeline
- Want stronger university engagement and relationships
- Want to target universities that are interstate or remote

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Ignite Engage

A blended training & coaching program that complements your existing internship programs. Ignite Engage is designed to better attract and engage your interns in order to achieve a better experience, higher offer acceptance rates and workplace readiness.

IDEAL FOR EMPLOYERS THAT:

- Have challenges attracting the right interns
- Have to compete for the best interns
- Want higher intern to graduate conversion rates
- Want interns who are more workplace ready
- Want higher intern engagement and satisfaction scores

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Ignite Connect

Designed for students starting from first year, Ignite Connect develops the employability skills and workplace readiness of your targeted cohorts to enhance your employer brand and attraction strategy. Allows an employer to create a longer and deeper connection with prospective talent that can influence brand and role perception.

IDEAL FOR EMPLOYERS THAT:

- Want to influence passive graduate talent early in their journey
- Have challenges attracting the right graduate talent
- Need to deliver on a diversity agenda, such as females in STEM
- Have critical, hard to fill graduate disciplines
- Have limited graduate program market awareness and on-campus presence
- Have limited internal resources and/or expertise to create an earlier graduate pipeline
- Want stronger university engagement and relationships
- Want to target universities that are interstate or remote

Ignite Engage

A blended training & coaching program that complements your existing internship programs. Ignite Engage is designed to better attract and engage your interns in order to achieve a better experience, higher offer acceptance rates and workplace readiness.

IDEAL FOR EMPLOYERS THAT:

- Have challenges attracting the right interns
- Have to compete for the best interns
- Want higher intern to graduate conversion rates
- Want interns who are more workplace ready
- Want higher intern engagement and satisfaction scores

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Ignite Retain

Development programs from offer to induction, designed to maximise retention and help with the transition from study to work.

IDEAL FOR EMPLOYERS THAT:

- Experience drop-offs between graduate offers and commencement
- Want to better engage with their graduates in the "keep warm" period
- Want faster productivity from new graduate employees
- Want to differentiate their employer-brand perception in the graduate market
- Want to enhance their onboarding process

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Ignite Retain

Development programs from offer to induction, designed to maximise retention and help with the transition from study to work.

IDEAL FOR EMPLOYERS THAT:

- Experience drop-offs between graduate offers and commencement
- Want to better engage with their graduates in the "keep warm" period
- Want faster productivity from new graduate employees
- Want to differentiate their employer-brand perception in the graduate market
- Want to enhance their onboarding process

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Are these challenges familiar to you?

CLICK on any of the challenges below to learn more about how our Ignite Programs can help you
attract, engage and retain graduate talent.

You need to engage with students earlier to influence their perception of your employer brand and employer value proposition.

This is where Ignite Connect can help! Readygrad is uniquely positioned to connect your organisation with target universities, delivering meaningful employability skills programs to build deeper connections with potential talent.

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You are losing your graduate talent after your company made them an offer.

Ignite Retain can help strengthen your organisational engagement with your offered graduates, focusing on increasing retention through blended professional development programs.

 

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You want to better differentiate your internship program.

Ignite Engage is built to enhance your existing internship programs through the delivery of training, individual coaching, group projects and social connection events.

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You find it hard to differentiate your offer at traditional careers fairs and on job boards.

Ignite Connect can help. This program is delivered to your targeted institutions through direct student engagement, development and employer touchpoints and insights.

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You want to increase your ability to convert interns to graduates.

This is where Ignite Engage comes in. Built around your specific needs, the program is designed to increase acceptance of offers as a result of an outstanding internship experience.

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You want to improve your offered graduate retention and workplace preparation.

Ignite Retain delivers tailored content to develop your graduates' work readiness and blends workplace skills training with your graduate development strategy.

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Ignite Programs

Select tailored graduate development programs for your candidates, interns and graduates, branded by your organisation and delivered by Readygrad.

 

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Ignite Connect

A selective development program delivered to a target cohort of students, in order to build a curated talent pipeline with stronger brand awareness and the ability to influence students' understanding through a deeper, longer connection.


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Ignite Engage

A training and coaching program run in conjunction with your internship program to differentiate your offering and maximise your interns’ experience and offer acceptance, whilst enhancing the attractiveness and outcomes of your internship
programs.

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Ignite Retain

A professional development program targeted at your offered graduates and new starters to maximise retention through positive engagement, and help them prepare for the workplace. The program is the final step to securing sought-after graduate talent.

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But Don't Just Take Our Word for It...

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Our intern was well prepared for their placement. They jumped into the opportunity with enthusiasm and really took the time to learn about our business and ask great questions. The intern was set up for success and really valued the development provided by Readygrad prior to the business placement.


People Leader
NAB

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This experience was hugely beneficial to me and just an overall fantastic experience. I am so grateful that I got this huge opportunity and was able to undertake such an internship. I learnt a lot along the way, gained a lot of exposure to the industry and also met some amazing people.

Ignite Program Participant

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I have never felt so excited to go to work as I did with NAB. I was inspired by Readygrad’s facilitators, Tina and Gareth, and really found a sense of purpose. It was an overall excellent program that has encouraged me to apply for the Graduate Scheme.


Ignite Program Participant

Case study
Case Study - NAB

Discover how NAB engages Readygrad as a strategic training partner to redefine intern work readiness and their internship experience.
 

So, why Readygrad?

Founded by recruitment and coaching specialists, our background includes managing graduate recruitment and development programs for large corporations including BHP Billiton, Rio Tinto and BP Australia. Working within these spaces we saw a gap in the work-readiness of graduates and experienced pain points within the graduate recruitment process. Since 2012 we have been working with students, universities and graduate employers to bridge this gap, resulting in significantly improved graduate outcomes for all parties. Today Readygrad has a national footprint, working with universities and thousands of employers across Australia.

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