This page contains Australian government sites, general employment agencies and sites targetting specialist areas including Health, IT, mature-age, graduates and those with disabilities. There are Job Boards, employment portals and part-time employment information sites. Links to ombudsmen and equal opportunity support are included.

Information on agencies and employers for Working Overseas is found on this page and Teaching Overseas, including Teacher Exchange, is found here. Interview and Résumé assistance is found on these pages.

Apprenticeship information is available through the Vocational Education page.

Australian Government Sites

Government and government-linked agencies.

• Australian Jobsearch
  Commonwealth Government. Listings of casual and permanent positions across Australia.
• Australian Public Service Jobs
  ‘APSjobs will link you to vacancies in the APS, the Australian Parliamentary Service and other Australian Government agencies. For people already working in the APS, wanting to join the APS, returning to the workforce, looking for a career change, graduating from university or TAFE, still studying and school leavers’. The Australian Public Service Commission is allied to this. Their Cracking the Code page is a must read for those wanting to obtain a position in the Public Service.
• Careers at Centrelink
  ‘Information about working at Centrelink, including current employment opportunities, how to apply and our graduate programs’.
• Careers with the Victorian Government
  ‘Our website tells you all you need to know about the rewarding government jobs and careers available within the Victorian Government in Australia’.

Employment of People with a Disability

Government sites with a specific responsibility for this area.

• CRS Australia
  ‘If you have a disability, injury or health condition and want to get or keep a job, we can help. We will work with you to manage the barriers you face in getting a job’.
• JobAccess
  Help and workplace solutions for the employment of people with disability. Get expert help, find government services, access publications, more.

• Employment Services and Jobs
  Annotated listing of sites from the Commonwealth government.
• Equal Opportunity for Women In the Workplace
  ‘Role is to administer the Equal Opportunity for Women in the Workplace Act and through education, assist organisations to achieve equal opportunity for women’.
• Fair Work Australia
  ‘An independent body with power to carry out a range of functions relating to : the safety net of minimum wages and employment conditions, enterprise bargaining, industrial action, dispute resolution, termination of employment and other workplace matters’.
• Fair Work Online
  ‘Information and advice about Australia’s new national workplace relations system from the Fair Work Ombudsman. You’ll also find links to Fair Work Australia - the national workplace relations tribunal’.
• Fair Work Ombudsman
  ‘Works with employees, employers, contractors and the community to promote harmonious, productive and cooperative workplaces. Investigates workplace complaints and enforces compliance with Australia’s workplace laws’.
• Jobs NSW - Job Search
  Employment opportunities with the NSW Government and its agencies.

Mature-Age Employment

Government sites which specifically target this area. Check non-government sites further down the page.

• Experience⁺
  ‘Dedicated to promoting mature age employment’.
  Previously listed as Jobwise.
• Your Work
  Seniors.gov.au. ‘All Australians, regardless of their age, have the right to expect access to appropriate employment, training and learning services. Lists services and programs available to Australians over 50’.

• Queensland Government Jobs

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Australian Sites, Other

Search engines, recruiting groups, other general information.

• Can we Suggest …
  Lists new employment sites, with the list being continually updated.
• CareerJet
  ‘Employment search engine for Australia. Allows you to search a growing selection of jobsites in one go saving you the trouble of having to go to each site individually’.
• Careers MultiList
  A consortium of recruiting companies working as a network in Australia. Has a Job Quick Search, Job Alert, résumé and interview tips.
• CareerOne
  Browse for jobs, visit the Job Board, get Job Hunting Advice, have job information emailed to you, find a career expert, see employment news, more.
• Clarius Group
  ‘Recruitment company providing specialist technical, executive and office support personnel in the areas of information and communications technology, banking, finance, insurance, commercial accounting, library, records management, sales and marketing’. Winner of a FEMA award as Recruitment Firm of The Year.
• DayWork - Part Time Australian Job Search
  ‘Search site listing casual, temporary and part-time jobs across all industries and skill levels. Free access to job search, work alarms and work wanted posters’.
• EvansPetersen
  ‘Our purpose is to connect people with positions, and employers with solutions. We will explore your motivations and ambitions, challenge your thinking and offer pragmatic career advice’.
• G-Force Employment Services
  Geelong, Bsallarat, Wyndham and Shepparton Victoria. Works with employers, apprentices, others seeking employment, the unemployed, more.
• Indeed
  ‘Indeed.com is a search engine for jobs, allowing job seekers to find jobs posted on thousands of company career sites and job boards’.
• Jobfind Centre
  Search for positions in different occupational areas, submit your résumé, use any of the links provided.
• Job Futures
  National employment network with sections for jobseekers, employers, other information. Need to become a member to use the site.
• Job Search With Jobrapido
  ‘Search through all jobs posted on all career sites in Australia’. Also able to search internationally.
• Jobsearch Employment Site Links
  Annotated links to groups covering work areas, regions, industries, more. Several of the inclusions are already listed.
• Job SearchO
  ‘Post your resume for Free and have employers contact you or search our database of jobs posted by employers. Looking for Staff ? Search resumes of job seekers looking for work or post a job ad in the ad section’.
• Jobseeker.com.au
  ‘Jobseeker enables users to search for thousands of career opportunities posted in many job sites across the country. With Jobseeker, users can easily search for jobs using keywords and narrow down the search results by title, location and source’.
• Jobserve
  Now Jobserve Australia.
• Jobstralia
  ‘All jobs, just a single search’.
• Jobs Working In Australia or New Zealand
• Jooble
  ‘Jooble is a single web page in which you can find work via the Internet’. Also has links to search engines for employment in other countries.
• Lifestyle Careers
  ‘Dedicated exclusively to flexible and home office employment opportunities for Australian Professionals. The only job board of its kind in Australia’.
• MyCareer.com.au
  Find employment in many fields. Build your CV online, detail your skills, receive specific job ads., look through thousands of advertisements, find out about advertising, more.
• Part Time Online
  ‘Australia’s leading specialist website for part time jobs, flexible listings, contract/temporary positions and casual employment. A comprehensive job board, targeted job search, interactive online community network for individuals, employers and agencies interested in part time work, job share, work from home and freelance employment on a contract, temporary, casual or permanent basis’.
• Ready Workforce
  Australian job search agency with links across the country. Previously Oz-Jobs.
• Realjobs.com.au
  ‘RealJobs.com.au is a website for finding new careers and job opportunities. Realjobs seeks to bridge the gap between the employer and employee by offering quality and affordable job advertising. Real Jobs - Real People’.
• Robert Half - Accounting, Finance & IT Jobs
  ‘Robert Half is the world’s leading specialised recruitment firm providing placement services for accounting, finance and information technology professionals’.
• Seek
  ‘We are Australia’s most popular choice for advertisers searching for the right candidate, and job seekers looking for the right job. Owned and operated in Australia. Also has offices across New Zealand and the UK’.
• SMStheJOB
  ‘Revolutionising the job seeking process, SMStheJOB now sends job ads directly to job seeker’s mobile phones via SMS. These job ads are specifically tailored to jobseeker’s preferences so there is no longer a need to trawl through thousands of job board ads to find one that suits’.
• Tip Top Job.com
  ‘Welcome to the Australia Tip Top Job site.This is the online recruitment resource for jobseekers to search jobs and recruiters to advertise jobs and vacancies in Australia and worldwide’.
• WestJobs
  ‘Mining, Retail & Construction Jobs in Perth and WA’.

Other General Sites

• Jobs Online
  ‘Jobs sites, agencies, career sites, education, resources for jobs seekers, with a focus on Australia’. Most well-annotated.
• LinkMe
  ‘Whether you are looking for a job right now or just want to hear about new opportunities. Post your résumé to be instantly visible to over 3 500 employers and recruiters or apply directly for thousands of jobs’.
• Monster
  Browse for jobs by type, company or location, even apply for them online.
  Previously listed as Hotjobs.
• Now Hiring
  Browse jobs, search for specific jobs, create a résumé, find out about employers.
• One Small Planet
  Details about travel, work, study, everything related.

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Specialist Employment Areas

Agriculture

• Agbizcareers
  ‘Find Australia’s best Agribusiness opportunities online’.
• AgCareers
  ‘Vision is to be the leading supplier of Human Resource Services to the Agriculture, Food, Natural Resources and Biotechnology Industry’.

Au Pair/Nanny

Catering for au pair and nanny placement [and training] and often place other carers for different situations.

• Au Pair Australia
  ‘Matching Au Pairs with Families in Australia and Internationally’.
• CareforKids.com.au^®
  Among the range of child care services are nannies and au pairs. Select from the menu on the left.
• Charlton Brown
  Training, placement.
• Dial an Angel [Nannies]
  Employment, placement procedures.
• Rockmybaby^™
  ‘Nanny Agency and leading childcare recruitment experts’.
• SEEK - Nannies & Babysitters Jobs

Cadetships

Companies who run cadetships and/or traineeships.

• KPMG
• PWC Australia
• Deloitte
• Ernst & Young [Australia]

Graduate Employment

• GradConnection
  ‘The only specialist graduate recruitment agency in Australasia placing graduates in jobs in Australia and New Zealand, we don’t have executive positions to worry about filling so graduate jobs are our number one priority’.
• Graduate Careers Australia
  For prospective graduates, this site provides options to assist with finding that first position. It will help you find a plan of action to ensure success.
• GraduateInfo
  Find graduate jobs, career advice, get job alerts, CV assistance [some Fee-based], use the forum, get interview advice and much more at the one site.
• Graduate Jobs Network
  ‘Jobs for students and grads only’.
• GraduateJobs
  ‘Graduate Jobs is an online job board that lists employment opportunities targetting a 100% graduate and entry-level demographic’.
• Graduate Opportunities Web
  Australia and New Zealand. ‘From general careers and job hunting advice to a personalised graduate recruitment service [more than 180 affiliated companies both national and international]’. Information for prospective graduates and those who have graduated.
• LODE
  ‘Lode is the new way of connecting university students, graduates and alumni with Australia’s leading employers. Sign up now and open the door to a world of opportunities’.
• MacMahon
  ‘For ambitious graduate[s] seeking real challenges and rapid career growth’.
• Recruit.net
  Search the extensive listing of graduate positions from all areas.
• Unigrad
  ‘Unigrad is the best place to find your perfect graduate or vacation job !’

Health Employment

• All Jobs Health
  ‘Doctor jobs, nurse jobs, healthcare jobs in Australia’.
• Beat Medical
  ‘Beat Medical is a medical recruitment agency helping place doctors in permanent and locum positions across Australia. We manage doctors of all specialties’. Also has information for overseas doctors wanting to work in Australia.
• Geneva Health
  ‘Geneva Health is a leading specialist health recruitment company’.
• HealthStaff Recruitment
  ‘Our wide choice of nursing jobs, doctor jobs and medical jobs allow you to travel to a new city or country, while enjoying the freedom to choose your work environment’. Also New Zealand, Canada and Ireland.
• Malvern Nursing Agency
  ‘We assist nurses in all specialties with work options that match your needs and desires and we treat you as more than just a number’. Previously listed under Australian Nursing Solutions.
• MatronJobs
  ‘To make life easier for Nurses, Doctors and all other Medical professionals, down under, to find locum or permanent work. We have an extensive list of Australian, New Zealand and International based healthcare & medical jobs’.
• Medical Recruitment
  ‘Medical Recruitment is one of Australia’s leading medical recruitment agencies specialising in the placement of permanent and locum medical professionals including general practitioners, nurses and administrative staff’.
• Nursing & Midwifery
  Information about employment careers and more with the Queensland Government.
• Nursing Jobs
• Persona Grata Consulting
  ‘Small, personalised recruitment agency specialising in sales, marketing and medical professionals in the healthcare industry’.

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Indigenous

• Aboriginal Employment Strategy Ltd
  ‘The AES is a 100% Indigenous managed, national, not-for-profit recruitment company’.
• Australian Employment Covenant
  ‘An initiative aimed at securing 50 000 sustainable jobs for Indigenous Australians’. Check for details of available positions.
• Indigenous Jobs Australia
  ‘A national employment website dedicated to connecting Indigenous Australian job seekers with employers that are searching for Indigenous employees’.
• My Gateway
  Covers apprenticeships and traineeships.
• PVS Workfind - Indigenous Service
  ‘PVS Workfind Indigenous Service provides specialist employment services to Indigenous job seekers to secure and retain employment’.

IT Area

• Brainbox
  Stated to be ‘the nerve centre of Australian IT employment’.
• CBS Interactive Australia
  Mainly IT positions, though it does cover other areas.
  Previously listed as ZDNet Australia Jobs.
• Command Recruitment Group
  Handles positions particularly in the IT field. Part of Jobnet.
• Gurus.com.au
  ‘IT jobs and resumes of Australian IT Professionals for hire’. Find positions, put yourself out there for consideration.
• IT Jobs Listings
  From Australia’s top IT recruitment agencies.

Legal

• Burgess Paluch Legal Recruitment
  ‘Burgess Paluch is a specialist legal recruitment agency dealing with Australian and international markets [UK, Hong Kong etc.]. Their website also has a lot of useful information re : job interview best practices and résumé writing’.
• Kaleidoscope Legal Recruitment
  ‘Kaleidoscope Legal Recruitment is a specialist legal recruitment agency. We specialise in recruiting administration, support staff, IT and finance staff for law firms and corporate clients. We have a huge range of career roles, contracts and temporary roles with our highly regarded clients’.

Mature-Age Employment

Non-Government sites that specifically target this area. Check government sites higher up the page.

• Adage
  ‘Australia’s leading careers centre and job board for mature age professionals [aged 40+]’.
• BeNext^™
  ‘BeNext - is an online mature age job and career centre supporting job seekers who are fusing life experience and “know how” to get work that matters’.

Mining

• DT Workforce
  ‘DT Workforce is a specialist recruitment company for the Mining and Mineral Processing, Energy [Oil & / Power Generation], Industrial and Services,and Construction industries’./li>
• Mining & Resources Jobs & Career Advice
• Mining Employment Services
  ‘A specialised mining recruiter of qualified and experienced Contract and Permanent Professionals and Blue Collar employees to the Australian and International mining industry’.
• Mining Jobs Australia [Skye Recruitment]
  ‘We specialise in permanent, contract, and temporary technical and engineering recruitment throughout Australia and overseas, covering such industries as civil construction, civil design, and mining’.
• Mining People International
  ‘We offer human resource services, recruitment services [contract and permanent] and specialist job search services, specifically to the resource sector’.

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Other Areas

• Autopeople
  Real Jobs for Real Auto People. Search by category, location and/or keywords. There is also a range of very useful career advice including help with cover letters, applications, salaries, interview techniques, more. Check regarding need to register for full access.
• Bluecollar Job Search
  Extensive trade, service search capacity.
• eFinancialCareers
  Find a job in the finance or banking industries. Search by sectors, location or a company search.
• GuardJobs.net
  ‘Dedicated Security Jobsite for Employers searching for Security Staff and Job seekers searching for employment’.
• Harvest Trail
  ‘Select a state to find out more information about harvest labour’.
• Junior Jobs
  Employment for younger people.
• LGJobs
  ‘Source for employment positions available within the local government sector throughout Australia’.
• ResearchJobs
  Research jobs, by location.
• Skilled
  Recruiting skilled tradespeople and industrial staff.
• Trades & Services Jobs
  More than 5 000 jobs are listed in this area.

Part Time/Casual Employment

• Hippo
  Covers full-time and part-time positions.
• PartTimeOnline
  ‘Brings you the hottest interactive community site totally focussed on flexible employment !’

Specific Recruitment Companies

• ACRWorld
  ‘ACRWORLD is an Australian engineering & construction recruitment company with a proven international reach. We source and fill engineering jobs and construction jobs across Australia, Asia, the Middle East and North Africa Region’.
• ABRS Socialworks
  ‘Matches qualified social welfare workers and managers from Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Ireland and the United Kingdom for temporary and permanent positions. Welfare professionals can also be contracted’.
• Alliance
  ‘Delivery of permanent and temporary accounting, financial services and business support professionals to many of the region’s leading organisations’.
• Aquent
  ‘Global firm specialising in staffing solutions for the marketing, communications, creative and business support sectors’.
• Byron Employment Australia
  One of the most popular ‘job boards’ in Australia. Jobs in categories. Also caters to overseas applicants.
• CareCareers
  ‘carecareers is a free-to-use online recruitment service aimed at providing information and advice to anyone thinking about developing a career in the New South Wales disability and community care sector, whilst providing support and recognition to those already working within it’. This is the specific employment area of a larger site which has a wealth of information.
• C-F-S Career Management
  ‘Australian-owned Career Management Consultancy with international presence, dedicated to providing high-level consulting expertise to professionals, allowing them to advance their careers in all sectors’. Graduates to Executives.
• Clarius Group
  ‘One of the largest and longest standing suppliers of information and communications technology recruitment services across Australia and New Zealand’.
• Command Recruitment
  Source most levels in IT, finance, banking, engineering areas.
• Excelior
  ‘Expert knowledge and years of first-hand experience in meeting the diverse and complex needs of the call centre industry’.
• Expect a Star Recruitment
  ‘Star Recruitment caters for teachers of all levels of education that are available for casual, part time or permanent employment’.
  Previously listed as Star Recruitment.
• Fitness First
  Careers in about 20 different areas from administration to Child Care.
• Hays Personnel
  One of Australia’s largest recruiters.
• Hudson
  Part of the TMP group. One of the largest eResourcing groups.
• Jobs in Retail
  A combination of Westfields and MyCareer aids you in finding positions at all levels in shopping centres across Australia.
• Lloyd Morgan
  ‘Executive Search & Selection, HR Consulting to organisations across many industries’.
• Manpower
  Help in all areas of employment.
• Randstad
  ‘Provision of accountancy support employees’.
  Previously known as Select Accountancy.
• Randstad [2]
  Covers Australia and International. Previously called Link Recruitment.
• Recruit Express
  ‘Total solutions package that includes permanent placement, temporary staffing, contract staffing, executive search, out-placement, payroll services, even international recruitment’.
• Sportspeople
  ‘Jobs in Sport, Fitness, Aquatics, Coaching, Venues, Events, Leisure & Lifestyle’.
• The One Umbrella
  ‘[Specifically] involved in the library, records, information and knowledge management industry’.
• UniJobs.com.au
  ‘UniJobs is Australia’s university jobs website. UniJobs enables all Australian universities to post their jobs on our centralised university job board. Job seekers visit UniJobs to search, find, compare and apply for university jobs throughout Australia’.

Starting a Business

• Indigenous Business Australia
  ‘Assists eligible Indigenous Australians to establish, acquire and grow small to medium businesses, by providing business support services and business loans’.
• NSW Government
• NT Government
• Queensland Government
• WA Government
  

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