Your opportunity to pitch ideas F2F to students seeking internships in our June and September 2023 cohorts.

UniSA Internship Programs result 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 6th instalment of our face-to-face speed-networking events, builds on previous success and takes it a step further as we have the first collaboration between UniSA Business and UniSA STEM. In addition to the usual range of Business disciplines, this will see us incorporating students from Engineering, Construction, IT, Maths & Science - making for what should be a full house and busy morning!

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 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 second half of 2023, and into early 2024.

Highlighting that with this expanded format we are anticipating reaching the room capacity of 400 pax so get in early and if we run out of space we may ask organisations with multiple registrants to reduce their numbers (see FAQs below for more information)

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, 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. 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.