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Student Hub: Careers & Industry

Careers Connect

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Careers Connect is a platform that connects students and industry, and helps you develop employability skills and plan your life after study with confidence.

Should you experience any technical issues please contact us.

Email: CareersConnect [@] torrens.edu.au

Careers Connect is a digital Career Services Centre available to you on-demand where you can access:

  • Resume and cover letter review services
  • View and RSVP to Careers and Industry-related events
  • Search and apply for casual, part-time and graduate jobs
  • Search and apply for volunteering, WIL, placements, and virtual internships 
  • Complete virtual mock interviews
  • Access online resources and webinars relating to job search, career planning, and graduate employment

Industry Connect

Connect with industry at our on-campus and online events!

Check what's coming up.

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Social Enterprise Hub placement

Are you a Business student seeking to improve your employability skills and build your expertise?

Come do your placement with us - the university’s student-led consulting agency and work on projects solving our industry clients’ business issues.

What is the Social Enterprise Hub (SEH)

The Social Enterprise Hub delivers consultancy services to our purpose driven & not-for-profit enterprise partners from across Australia & globally.

As a student led consulting agency students get to shape its design, assist in coordination of operations & deliver consultancy projects.

How does it work?

Our consultancy services use the talent of our students under the leadership of an industry expert. In exchange, students gain practical and meaningful industry experience that helps prepare them for their future careers.

Students will need to be enrolled into the designated subject and will gain credit for their placement, focused on their involvement in delivering a team-based consultancy project as the primary basis of assessment.​

Projects are conducted within the Trimester over a 12-week period. Eligibility criteria apply

WIL, placement, internships & employment

Work-integrated learning & placements
Placements and work-integrated learning (WIL) are an important part of your degree as it helps you bridge theory you learn in the classroom to the workplace. To be timely and successful in securing your placements, it is recommended that you start your research and applications at least one trimester in advance.

To see where WIL or placements sit in your course, check out your course structure or get in contact with your Program Director.  A diverse selection of placement locations can be searched in Careers Connect under the Job Postings tab.  Additional WIL and placement resources can be found under the Course menu.  

Before you start a placement, you must submit a completed Work Integrated Learning (WIL) Agreement via email (wil@torrens.edu.au). A member of the WIL Contracts and Support team will contact you and go through the verification process.  Please submit your WIL Agreement at least 7-days prior to your intended start date. 

Most placement experiences are unpaid, so it's essential a WIL Agreement is signed off by you, your potential Host Organisation and checked by the University so we can cover your insurance during the experience.

Internships & employment

A broad range of opportunities for students are sourced each trimester including;

  • Industry Placements & Work-Integrated Learning (WIL)
  • Virtual Experiences by Forage (free)
  • Casual and part-time work
  • Volunteering opportunities 
  • Social Enterprise Hub opportunities 
  • Live briefs
  • Competitions & Awards
  • Hackathons & Employability projects
  • Graduate Programs

Log in to your Careers Connect profile to view a full list.

Forage Virtual Experiences – get an edge for your future career

We are proud to partner with Forage to bring you free virtual experiences, specially curated to build your employability skills and help you feel confident about life after study.

These short experiences have been created by global industry leaders such as  KPMG, Accenture, EA Games. BCG and Telstra, and more. You’ll get to: 

  • Gain practical work skills to help you feel confident for your graduate career 
  • Connect with leading global companies 
  • Receive a certificate and LinkedIn badge upon completion to add to your CV or LinkedIn profile 

How it works 

  • Each virtual experience takes approximately 5-6 hours to complete 
  • View video instructions from real employees of the company
  • Receive an online brief of tasks, which mirrors real work you might complete if you worked at the company 
  • Access resources from the company to help complete the virtual experience

More than 2000 students have completed a Forage virtual experience since its launch.