Westpac Group
Westpac Graduate Program Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Pathway (Feb 2025)
Sydney, Brisbane, Adelaide
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Opportunity details
- Graduate Job or Program
- AUD 70,000 - 80,000 / Year
- 1-100 vacancies
- Apply by 16 Aug 2024
- Start date 16 Feb 2025
About Us
Westpac Group is proud to be on its third Elevate Reconciliation Action Plan (RAP) and fifth RAP overall. Elevate RAP organisations maintain a strong strategic relationship with Reconciliation Australia and actively champion initiatives to empower Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, fostering societal change. You can read more about Westpac Group’s Reconciliation Action Plan.
About the Program
Our program is designed to help you identify your focus areas. We offer tailored training sessions to enhance your technical and soft skills, accelerating your personal and professional development. Explore diverse career pathways within Westpac and join our Indigenous Mentoring Program, where you'll be matched with mentors across the business.
Our Indigenous Careers Team, in partnership with the Grad Programs Team, will support you throughout your journey, from application through to program completion.
Program Eligibility
- You identify as Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander.
- You are either in your final year of a university degree or have completed an undergraduate or postgraduate degree within the past three years.
- We welcome applications from all fields of study.
IMPORTANT: When completing the application form, please ensure you EXPAND ALL SECTIONS to INCLUDE your EDUCATION details and UPLOAD your RESUME & ACADEMIC TRANSCRIPT.
Your Grad Journey
- You’ll start with us as a permanent employee commencing in February 2025.
- You’ll complete a rotational program to help you learn about different parts of your business area. It’s packed full of different roles, teams and project experiences.
- As you near the end of your program, our team will provide you with a Career Transition Series to prepare you for the end of your Grad experience and assist you in putting your best foot forward when looking for post-program roles.
How to Apply
Step 1: Complete our easy online application form (approx. 10 mins): Submit your resume and academic transcripts in PDF or Word format.
Step 2: Online Assessments (if shortlisted): If your application has progressed, you'll be invited to complete an online psychometric assessment within 48 hours.
Step 3: Video Interview and assessment centre: This will assist us to get to know more about your motivations as well as your ‘Uncommon Mind’.
Outcomes: We value your time and enthusiasm. Expect timely feedback on your application status.
Reconciliation at Westpac Group
Our vision for reconciliation is an Australia where Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples have equitable economic participation and financial wellbeing. We seek to achieve this by listening to, learning from, partnering with, and elevating Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander voices.
At Westpac Group our aim is to help Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians succeed by valuing culture, helping Indigenous employees build meaningful careers, providing better banking experiences for our Indigenous customers, and backing Indigenous business.
Westpac has been granted an S126 Exemption to sections eight (8) and fifty-one (51) of the Anti-Discrimination Act 1977 (NSW); this allows us to advertise and recruit this role exclusively to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander applicants.
Westpac Group acknowledges the Traditional Owners as the custodians of this land, recognising their connection to land, waters and community. We pay our respects to Australia's First Peoples, and to their Elders, past, present and future.
Hiring criteria
- No experience required
- Australian Citizen +more
- Engineering & Mathematics +more
- Associate Degree or higher
Reviews
Provide hr advice to employees and leaders across the group
A lot of admin work - booking meetings, writing minutes, making presentation packs, liaising with eas to organise higher-ups attendance. a lot of work is given to you that others in the team would rather not do - the important thing is to have a good attitude regardless of how passionate you are about it as that attitude is what people will talk about when you roll off/apply for internal roles.
Monthly reporting. automating reports learnings and implementation
About the employer
Westpac Group
4.4
1,000 - 50,000 employees
Banking & Financial Services
When you join Westpac Group, you’ll be empowered to make a difference, speak your truth and discover what success means to you.
Pros and cons of working at Westpac Group
Pros
The quality of the work and the people you work with.
Huge amount of opportunity to learn and grow.
Flexibility, atmosphere.
Rotating around between teams ensures I am learning lots and meeting heaps of people.
Great extracurricular opportunities to be involved in - from employee action groups to Toastmasters clubs.
Cons
Sometimes it is difficult to contact/work with departments outside of your area.
Because it's so big, it's very slow to move with change and onboarding to systems.
Having set days to come into the office. Hard to find a job after graduate program finishes.
Too many systems.
We are big, old and clunky. This means things can take ages to actually get done, and there can be heaps of red tape.