Department of Employment and Workplace Relations (DEWR) Graduate Stories

It’s really rewarding knowing the things you are working on will be used to shape the future education systems of Australia.

Working in the public service means being exposed to a variety of subject areas and being flexible to changing priorities and work.

Be perseverant. Don’t get demoralised by all the rejections.

Everyone in the graduate program has such a different background and that’s what makes it great. We all bring something different to our teams and work really well together.

My team helps the department facilitate the collection of Australian schools data to better empower decision making from both a policy and funding perspective.

My team are responsible for driving youth unemployment policy to assist young jobseekers between 17 to 24 years old.