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Gain valuable career skills and experience through short term, company-backed virtual internships provided for free through Forage (previously known as InsideSherpa).

Opportunity type: Co-curricular Program

Ideal for: all science students, particularly those interested in expanding career opportunities into consulting, tech and finance industries, innovation and entrepreneurship.

¶Ù±ð²¹»å±ô¾±²Ô±ð:ÌýNo deadline – get started whenever you like!  

Overview

Forage is an online platform that provides virtual internship programs from a wide range of top companies.

These short programs (which take 5-6 hours to complete) will give you a glimpse into a variety of careers and companies that recruit STEM graduates. You’ll work on tasks that mirror the day-to-day work of employees at the organisation and receive training in a variety of practical professional skills that you can add onto your CV and LinkedIn profile. There’s even a Virtual Work Readiness program that will help you to navigate the work of virtual work.   

If you are:

• unsure about what career path to follow
• interested in exploring a variety of career options
• want to expand your career skillset for the increasingly competitive graduate labour market.

These short virtual internships are a must!

Gain transferrable professional skills and insights into a variety of graduate roles with these short virtual experiences. 

Opportunity type: Co-curricular Program

Ideal for: all science students, particularly those interested in expanding career opportunities into consulting, tech and finance industries. 

Deadline: No deadline – get started whenever you're ready and work at your own pace. 

Overview

In partnership with a range of graduate employers, GradAustralia is now offering a series of on-the-job learning modules and hypothetical tasks drawn from real-world examples of what it’s actually like to work in an organisation as a junior employee.

These virtual experiences are ideal for students who are:

• unsure about what career path to follow
• interested in exploring a variety of career options
• want to get a little insight into graduate jobs at companies that recruit science graduates.

Launch your career while you study!

Opportunity type: Co-curricular Program

Ideal for: All science students 

¶Ù±ð²¹»å±ô¾±²Ô±ð:ÌýNo deadline – get started whenever you're ready and work at your own pace. 

What is the launchpad program?

STEM Career Launchpad is a new career management program specially designed for science students. It’s a co-curricular AHEGS accredited program that you can do alongside your academic courses; it will essentially guide you through the career planning process and give you the tools and skills you need to make informed career choices.

Why will this help me?

Career planning can be particularly confusing for science students whose STEM skills are highly valued by industries outside of the science industry and have more diverse opportunities to consider in addition to a traditional research career path.

This program will help to alleviate the confusion around integrating career development into the student journey by providing an award-based ‘choose-your-own-adventure’ style careers program tailored for science students. You’ll collect professional development badges and earn awards that will help you to prepare for your career, explore different STEM careers and expand your professional network. And importantly, you’ll gain relevant work experience and access to other current opportunities before you graduate.  

How can I register?

Registrations are now open. Find out more about the program and

Questions?

For further enquiries, please email stemcareerlaunchpad@unsw.edu.au