Learning & development

SydneyTalent takes a proactive approach to equipping pre-graduates and graduates for workplace success. Our range of learning and development initiatives foster the development of enduring life skills, complemented by the practical skills learned on the job. With their core competencies targeted and enhanced, students are better placed to make significant contributions in any context, including employment.

WorkReady Competencies™

SydneyTalent has defined twelve sets of competencies that describe effective and desirable behaviour for success in all facets of life, including the world of work.

Derived from a range of sources including the University of Sydney's Generic Graduate Attributes, the Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations (DEEWR) Employability Skills framework, and a range of industry-based graduate competency models, this framework provides a common language for identifying strengths and development needs, establishing performance criteria, and evaluating performance in the workplace.

Easy to understand, observe, and measure, these competencies form the foundation of all of our learning and development programs.

WorkReady Orientation™

SydneyTalent's WorkReady Orientation™ gives SydneyTalent employees the practical skills they need to make an immediate positive contribution in the workplace. SydneyTalent employees are conversant in all key aspects of OH&S and other basic workplace practices, ensuring legal compliance before they walk through the door.

WorkReady Essentials™

Throughout their work placements, SydneyTalent employees undertake SydneyTalent's WorkReady Essentials™, five face-to-face interactive training workshops designed to develop the life skills identified by society and industry as key to success. The workshops are designed to help students –

gain a clear and thorough understanding of what is expected of them in the workplace
further develop pragmatic employability skills that can be immediately applied across a broad range of contexts, including the workplace

WorkPlace Performance Development™

Using SydneyTalent's efficient online system, managers are able to set measurable performance goals and guide a SydneyTalent employee's progress by giving constructive, development-focused feedback. This two-way, user-friendly process ensures that SydneyTalent employees strive to achieve performance success.

Goodbye Catch-22!

You can't get a job without experience.
You can't get experience without a job.
That's a classic Catch-22.

But that no longer applies to University of Sydney students. Simply sign up with SydneyTalent and get employed with one eye on your timetable, and one eye on your career, complete with our unique WorkReady experience.

Before you even graduate, you may have already found your full-time future.

SydneyTalent
Experience is the difference.