Your career starts now
Whether you're a first-year student, or a seasoned professional looking to fast-track your career, it's natural to want to maximise your professional readiness.
Our career and employability services are designed to make life a bit easier for you. Whether you're an undergraduate, postgraduate or research student, we provide advice and a range of services to empower you with the skills and knowledge to plan for your future career and successfully transition from student into professional.
Enhance your employability
Employers look for well-rounded people with a good education and a range of skills, regardless of industry or vocation.
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Connect with your career possibilities
Let our careers service help grow your professional standing
We specialise in helping students develop their careers and understand that every student has unique experiences and ambitions.
At the UQ Student Employability Centre, we can help you:
- identify and communicate your skills and experiences to future employers
- tailor your job applications to meet specific opportunities.
- understand how to effectively connect with industry professionals and utilise their expertise
- review your resumes and applications and ensure they meet industry standards.
Get in touch
Do you have questions? We have answers! Our experienced employability staff can answer any questions you may have.
Career services
The UQ Student Employability Centre can help you with:
Resume writing
Interview skills
Networking
Leadership skills
Presentation techniques
Career ideas
Find job vacancies
Meet employers
Unlocking your employability
Learn how to market your skills to potential employers to maximise your career success
Study overseas
Learning is a journey. Take yours to all corners of the globe.
Stand out from the crowd
Take control of your future and learn how to prepare for working life after graduation
Leadership and volunteering
Leadership and volunteering
Develop a network of local and international contacts, challenge yourself intellectually, and gain insights into your personal capabilities by representing UQ as a student leader.
Practical learning
Job search tips
At UQ you’re given every opportunity to gain practical experience – and we'll also teach you the best strategies to make your job application stand out from the crowd.
Learn a language
Learn a language
Expand your world. Languages give you the world by opening your mind to other cultures and opening doors to new possibilities – at home and beyond.
Research experiences
Research experiences
Want to work at the cutting edge of your industry or discipline? At UQ, we let you work alongside some of the best researchers in the world to develop your research experience.
Fast-track your career
Gain a competitive edge in your chosen field
Think career services are just for undergraduates? Think again.
The UQ Student Employability Centre can help you:
- identify and communicate your skills and experiences to future employers
- tailor your job applications to meet specific opportunities.
- understand how to effectively connect with industry professionals and utilise their expertise
- review your resumes and applications and ensure they meet industry standards.
Get in touch
Do you have questions? We have answers! Our experienced employability staff are available to answer any questions you may have.
Unlocking your employability
Learn how to market your skills to potential employers to maximise your career success
Your career development framework
Take control of your future and learn how to prepare for post-thesis professional life
Academic development
Placements
The Career Development Framework facilitates industry placements, so you can develop a professional network while strengthening both your transferable and research skills.
Your research degree
Experiences
The Graduate School facilitates a range of career-enhancing experiences, including global travel opportunities, the Three-Minute Thesis Competition and graduate teaching programs.
Commercialisation and entrepreneurship
Workshops and skills sessions
Attend a huge number of workshops and skills sessions throughout your candidature. Topics include publishing, university teaching, thesis writing, entrepreneurship and more.
Knowledge transfer and strategy
Researcher development
Make sure you're the best researcher you can be by advancing your understanding of ethical research and a range of skills that will help you prepare and submit your thesis.
International research experience
UQ can take you to all corners of the globe! Each year we offer awards and grants to help you achieve your research and career goals.
Three Minute Thesis
An 80,000 word thesis would take 9 hours to present. Your time limit… 3 minutes. Founded by UQ, the Three Minute Thesis (3MT) celebrates the research conducted by HDR students.
Learn to see the potential of the world. Gain the knowledge to make it better.