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NAGCAS/GCA Bipartite Conference

GCA and NAGCAS are delighted to announce details for the conference event of 2008 – the NAGCAS/GCA Bipartite Conference, to be held at the luxurious Novotel Brighton-le-Sands (Sydney).

Early Bird Rates

Take advantage of the early bird offers to attend the combined NAGCAS/GCA Conference which will attract an interesting range of careers practitioners, Work integrated Learning (WiL) staff, employers and professional associations to examine innovative ways to forge partnerships,  to deal the challenges facing the graduate employment sector and to further your own professional development.

Registrations opened Monday 14 July

Early bird rates close on 7 August

Conference Themes

Theme 1: Innovative Partnerships

This theme will examine contemporary approaches to interactions between students, universities, employers, professional associations, and industry bodies, assessing how such interactions can be mutually complementary and enhance career development, learning for life and workplace productivity. Areas for examination include:

• WiL
• cross-sector and cross-industry liaisons
• case studies on innovative practices.

Theme 2: Graduate Recruitment - Beyond the Traditional

In days of greater competition for graduate talent and an increasingly diverse student population, this theme will examine traditional and non-traditional ways of identifying and harnessing new talent sources from the graduate communities and the challenges of maximising the potential of technology. Areas for examination include:

• tools and tips to attract talent
• tapping social networking spaces
• the potential of non-traditional cohorts.

Theme 3: Developing Workforce Capabilities

With an increasingly complex environment, skill shortages facing many industries and a highly mobile work force, both universities and employers need to ensure that future work force needs are being met across both the short- and long-term planning horizons. Areas for examination include:

• addressing skills shortages
• national issues - environmental, social and culturald
• developing leaders - pre- and post-graduation, and within your own teams
• developing you.

Call for Contributions

We are calling for contributions around these themes, so we encourage all those innovative members of the graduate recruitment sector across Australia to share ideas and practice by presenting papers and delivering workshops. Closing date Friday 25 July.

The Conference organising team welcome any input so feel free to share ideas about the conference with any members of the Conference team: Cindy Tilbrook (GCA), Sally Brooks (RMIT), Gaon Mitchell (UTAS), Sonia Jessup (UTAS), Maggie Baring (La Trobe), Michael Grainger (University of Wollongong) and Con Moriatis (Monash).

Best Practice Awards

Start thinking about your entries for the best practice awards!

Accommodation

A range of excellent, cost-effective accommodation options are also available - www.gemspl.com.au/bipartite2008/accommodation.asp . You may also want to start watching the various airlines in order to take advantage of any special pricing offers available.

Make sure to mark your calendar (9-12 Nov) now for this important event.

For details on all sponsorship opportunities click on the link below.