Early career & graduates
What we do
We can help you build successful and sustainable careers within your workplace
Together with advances in science, technology and the way we work, the world has changed forever. Graduates entering the workforce are stepping into a very different environment from previous entrants.
Now more than ever, leaders are called upon to support their graduates in a way that sustains wellbeing and allows them to view their careers through a long-term lens, and that’s where we step in!
We have a range of products and services in place to support not only the early career workers in your organisation, but also the people who support them including:
Employers with supportive practices in place see the benefits
- Improved employee retention
- Greater productivity
- Improved culture of support
- Enhanced multigenerational relationships
- Attracting top talent
- Mitigating and controlling psychosocial hazards
- Greater employee loyalty
Psychosocial hazards related to early career workers and graduates
- Job demands
- Low job control
- Lack of role clarity
- Job insecurity
- Poor support
- Bullying
- Discrimination and harassment, including sexual and gender-based harassment
- Conflict or poor workplace relationships and interactions
- Inadequate reward and recognition
- Poor physical environment
Graduate Transition Skills Sessions
Drawing from our extensive experience and research on supporting early career professionals, our graduate transition skills sessions support employers by helping to address skills gaps to create work-ready graduates for your organisation to ensure their long-term career success.
We’re proud to offer a series of transition skills sessions that focus on building work-readiness through such topics as psychological flexibility, information-seeking behaviours, career adaptability and building psychological capital. All sessions are 1.5 hours, but can be extended to two hours to allow for more discussion.
We can help your early career employees develop the skills to:
- Reduce risk of burnout.
- Manage feedback.
- Build psychological flexibility.
- Adjust to workplace expectations.
- Bounce back from setbacks.
- Foster connection, and more.
With a sharp increase in mental health assistance requests, it is imperative that workplaces implement proactive mental health and wellbeing initiatives that build capability and sustainability.
Sessions for Leaders Supporting Early Career Workers
Leaders play a pivotal role in shaping the graduate experience, particularly as young professionals integrate into teams navigating unprecedented workplace changes. Their influence is key in shaping the overall workplace atmosphere and fostering a sense of belonging among early career employees.
Our leader sessions are designed to help build capability of your leaders so they can best harness the talent of your early career workers.
Career Transition Series
Many of us will experience career transitions in our lifetime - whether it is having a baby or a career change, managing a personal crisis, or retiring from the workforce altogether. As an employer or manager, it can be hard to know how best to support someone during these times of career transition.
The Career Transition Series provides workplaces with research-led and practical approaches. Itshares the stories of organisations supporting their people through eight key transitions, highlights what has worked and relays lessons for others.
Young people provide significant value to the workplace but can be vulnerable to a range of mental health and wellbeing challenges.
Positive early experiences at work can be a protective factor to help develop resilience and the ability to adapt to challenges at work and improve longer-term mental health and wellbeing outcomes.