Your opportunity to pitch ideas F2F to students seeking internships in our November 2022 and March 2023 cohorts.

The UniSA Business Internship Program results in enhanced career outcomes for students and myriad benefits for industries. Even throughout the challenges of 2020-2022, we continued to adapt modalities and kept placements going.

This 5th instalment of our face-to-face speed-networking events, builds on the success of our April event where from 210+attendees has resulted in 57 placements to date and many more formal/informal connections.

This will be a formal facilitated speed-networking session designed to maximise your opportunity to connect with students seeking internship placement opportunities. At registration you will be required to register which disciplines you are most interested in speaking with and then in the lead up to the event you will receive more information to ensure you are well prepared.

Confirming the aim of this event is that you will identify with student(s) that you would like to offer an internship, we're anticipating 150-200 students. These students will be seeking 15-day (about 65%), 30-day (about 34%), or possibly 45-day (1%) internships to be primarily completed during one of the following periods:

November 2022 to February 2023
March 2023 to June 2023
June 2023 to August 2023

Proposed Program for the morning:

8:00-8:45 am: Arrive and register, networking with fellow industry partners, breakfast served from 8:00am.
8:45-9:00am: Official welcome and final preparations for 9am sharp start.
9:00-11:00am: Industry and student facilitated networking . Will likely consist of 4 x 20 minute sessions with students from the disciplines you nominate at registration, then up to 40 minutes free-for-all.
11:00am: Event close - complete post-event survey to confirm matches

NOTE - Current Adelaide Convention Centre's COVID-19 requirements for any attendees to this event are as follows. These will be checked by ACC staff on arrival:

Fully vaccinated (at least double-dosed) or able to provide a valid medical exemption.
Masks to be worn (at all times unless eating/drinking).

For more information you can refer to the ACC Website

FAQs

What do I need to prepare? You will have a 1 minute 'elevator pitch' summarising your organisation and the types of projects/activities that you may have a student intern undertake. The student will have a 30 second version. Each interaction only estimated to last 5 minutes.

Will I have the opportunity to meet every/any student I want to? Due to the scale of the event this is likely not possible. However, we do try and rotate people as much as possible. These rotations are all formulated prior to the event based on the preferences noted when you register, this enables you the opportunity to engage with the highest number of relevant students possible.

Can I bring more than one staff to the event? Short answer is YES, this was a feedback point from the last event. The catches are that everyone will need to register individually so we can track numbers, and as we are limited with capacity we may have group some staff together to give everyone an opportunity. We would recommend you coordinate your registrations so that you nominate as many disciplines as relevant, spread between your team. Note - we have limited capacity due to COVID-19 so if we run out of space we may ask organisations with multiple registrants to reduce their numbers.

Will you share the list of students prior/post the event? We don't share this level of detail prior to the event. We will provide you a sheet which you will use to record the students' name, ID number and any notes. You will then share the details of your preferred students in the survey after the event. The names of registered organisations will be sent in pre-event updates to students so they can undertake some prior research.