Your opportunity to pitch ideas F2F to UniSA Business & UniSA Creative students seeking internships in 2024 and beyond.

This is the 9th instalment of our award winning face-to-face speed-networking events that continue to drive industry to student connections resulting in enhanced career outcomes for students and myriad benefits for industries.

This is 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 nominate the 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.

Some updates for this edition:

More Marketing & Communications students: Normally industry will outnumber students in this highly popular cluster. We're beefing up the numbers through promotions to UniSA Creatives's Communications & Media and Journalism & Professional Writing, in addition to our usual mix of UniSA Business Marketing and Communications students.
UniSA Careers: Will be in attendance to engage with students and/or industry about the value-add services they provide.
UniSA Business Society: The student-run club will be in attendance to engage with any interested industry partners who would like to learn more about what they are doing to increase opportunities for their members.

The aim of this event is simple - you will identify student(s) that you would like to offer an internship, placement or project opportunity, we're anticipating 200-250 students. These students will be seeking opportunities to be primarily completed over the summer of 2024/25, and throughout 2025.

See FAQs below for more information about registering multiple representatives from the same organisation.

Video Pitch - Tell your story to students ahead of time by recording a video pitch. These have proven very popular with students to help with their preparation for the event, more information on how to do this on the dedicated Networking Event website.

Program for the morning:

8:15-8:45 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.

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, however there are 2 caveats to this - everyone will need to register individually so we can track numbers, and as we are limited with capacity we may have to restrict numbers per organisation 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 - the room capacity is 400 pax 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. Bring a notepad and pen with you 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.