Working with students and graduates

Industry work experience

Bachelor of Commerce and Masters level students gain valuable work experience during their degree. It enables them to: interact in a professional working environment, apply the skills and knowledge from their course, test out potential professions and network with graduate employers

Working with students and graduates

Many programs and services are offered both by the Business & Economics Careers Centre and the University's central Careers and Employment Service that provide opportunities for oganisations or individual professionals to participate and engage with students of the department to achieve mutually beneficial outcomes.

Business & Economics Careers Centre

The University's Careers and Employment Service

Careers in the actuarial profession

There are currently more than 1000 actuaries working in Australia. About 20 per cent work in life insurance, 18 per cent in general insurance and 18 per cent are engaged in superannuation. The remainder are employed in finance and investment, management, government service and within universities. There are more than 300 Australian qualified actuaries working overseas.

As well as focusing on finance and insurance issues, today's actuary is likely to engage with fields such as health, education, public infrastructure, climate change and environmental sector and genetics.

Recruiting organisations

Organisations that have recruited our graduates include:

Potential Private Sector Employers:

  • Merchant and trading banks,institutional investment firms, stock broking and insurance companies e.g. ANZ Bank, Commonwealth Bank
  • Business consulting firms e.g. KPMG, PricedwaterhouseCoopers, Deloitte Australia
  • Mining companies e.g. BHP Billiton, Rio Tinto
  • Manufacturing companies e.g. ACI Glass Packaging, Ford Australia, Fosters Group
  • Information technology e.g. IBM Australia, Computershare
  • Transport and communications companies e.g. Optus, Telstra, Qantas, TNT, Linfox
  • Retailers and wholesalers e.g. Coles Group, David Jones, Woolworths
  • Economics consulting firms e.g. Frontier Economics, ACIL Tasman, Access Economics

Potential Government Employers:

  • Department of Finance
  • Department of Health and Community Services
  • Productivity Commission
  • Astrade
  • Federal and State Treasury
  • Australian Securities and Investments Commission
  • Reserve Bank of Australia
  • Australian Taxation Office
  • Australian Competition and Consumer Commission
  • Universities
  • Department of Sustainability and Environment
  • Australian Bureau of Statistics
  • Political parties, think tanks and centres for political analysis