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ergo - Number 96 September 2004

This is edition number 96 of the Graduate Careers Council of Australia's quarterly newsletter ergo. The full issue can be downloaded as a pdf from the link directly below, or you can look at individual articles on the website by choosing them from the full list (also below).

GCCA Director Kate Gemmell

Kate Gemmell joined the GCCA Board in 2004. “Having worked in the Careers Sector for over 20 years now, I am looking forward to the challenge of being an alternative Director on the GCCA Board – I have been associated with a few boards over the years, but the GCCA should be a particularly interesting experience.”

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Graduates in High Employment

A new report just released by the Graduate Careers Council of Australia, the Graduate Destination Survey (GDS) 2003, suggests that new bachelor degree graduates in the fields of veterinary science, education, and health, medicine and dentistry were very likely to have been in professional employment and working in the field for which they trained.

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SA Graduate Careers Network

Responding to a perceived need for the various parties in the graduate employment sector to be able to meet in an informal forum, the Graduate Careers Council of Australia (GCCA) has developed a new initiative in 2004 – the Graduate Careers Network. This event has been designed to provide networking opportunities for graduate employers, careers staff and other parties involved in the graduate employment/recruitment process, and following on from the successful first event in Melbourne earlier in the year, a second event was held on 24 June in South Australia.

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US Labour Market – NACE Salary Survey

The latest survey of salaries in the United States, conducted by the National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE) has been completed, and a report issued in mid-2004. Among the most important aspects of this report is that the country’s continuing improvement in economic performance is being reflected in both job rates, and in a marked increase in overall starting salaries.

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2004 NAGCAS Employer Visits – ACT

In late June 2004, the next instalment in the NAGCAS (National Association of Graduate Careers Advisory Services) Employer Workplace Visits was held over three days in the Australian Capital Territory. Having perused the program I was very much looking forward to this event, as it would take in a diverse range of workplaces, all of which had something interesting to offer and many of which were quite unique. Canberra is an unusual city with a purpose-built feel and a kind of “remoteness”, perhaps because much of what occurs has national rather than local implications, but balanced against this is a sense of importance and purpose which is rather exciting.

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Postgraduate Careers Advisor Alan McAlpine

Alan McAlpine has been working for the last three months as one of the first postgraduate careers advisors dedicated to the support of research postgraduate students at the University of Auckland. Some of you may remember Alan, having been a regular attendee at the NAGCAS conferences for the past four years. He has successfully made the transition from being a consultant with Trevor-Roberts Associates (a career consultancy) in Brisbane to the University world.

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Careers Services in the UK and Australia: A View from the Outside

In the last edition of ergo, we featured the story of Eleanor Berry from the University of Warwick, UK who swapped jobs, houses and cars for six months with Rosemary Sainty from the University of Sydney in Australia. Part Two of this feature is from Rosemary, who left Australia in mid-Semester One, 2004.

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A Degree of Certainty – Postgraduate Careers

A Degree of Certainty is a new title published by the GCCA, which is designed to assist postgraduate research students with their career planning and to make the best use of their degrees upon completion.

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