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Graduate program development

Unlock the full potential of your emerging talent with a cohesive development program from Australia’s leading early careers specialists.

Trusted to develop early careers talent at these organisations

  • Accenture
  • Allianz
  • Aurecon
  • Australian Government logo
  • BDO
  • Built
  • Commonwealth Bank
  • Energy Queensland
  • Hydro Tasmania
  • IAG
  • John Holland
  • Monash University
  • Newton
  • Pitcher Partners
  • Powerlink
  • Queensland Government
  • Queensland Rail
  • Reserve Bank of Australia
  • Schneider Electric
  • Stantec
  • Teach for Australia
  • Transgrid
  • Urbis
  • Victorian Government
  • White and Case
  • Wood
  • Accenture
  • Allianz
  • Aurecon
  • Australian Government logo
  • BDO
  • Built
  • Commonwealth Bank
  • Energy Queensland
  • Hydro Tasmania
  • IAG
  • John Holland
  • Monash University
  • Newton
  • Pitcher Partners
  • Powerlink
  • Queensland Government
  • Queensland Rail
  • Reserve Bank of Australia
  • Schneider Electric
  • Stantec
  • Teach for Australia
  • Transgrid
  • Urbis
  • Victorian Government
  • White and Case
  • Wood
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Why Development

Workshops don’t build capability – what happens after them does

One-off workshops

One-off workshops

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Tick a box and fill out your calendar, but graduates don’t retain what they’ve learned.

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They leave fired up and ready to change how they work.

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By 9am the next day, with two hundred unread emails, the new framework is already a distant memory.

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Day-to-day work doesn’t provide the rounded development your emerging talent needs to be successful in their careers and strong future leaders within your organisation.

The Brightworks way

Brightworks development program

Brightworks development program

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Created to bridge the gap between what graduates learn in a workshop and what they actually do on the job.

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Based on what your graduates need to be great assets for your organisation.

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A comprehensive graduate development experience, tailored to your cohort.

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Aligned to your strategy and integrated with your current initiatives.

Client Outcomes

It’s an approach that is proven to work

It’s an approach that is proven to work

It’s an approach that is proven to work

Across our programs, 97% of participants achieve their learning outcomes, and 95% apply that learning back in the workplace immediately afterwards.

Across our programs, 97% of participants achieve their learning outcomes, and 95% apply that learning back in the workplace immediately afterwards.

Brightworks facilitator presenting to a group at a whiteboard
Brightworks facilitator presenting to a group at a whiteboard

How it works

Development programs that do more

Development programs that do more

Our development programs are structured around your core business goals, workforce and capability planning and the structure of your graduate program. From there, we put together a series of workshops and in-between support structures to upskill, engage and connect your graduates.

Our development programs are structured around your core business goals, workforce and capability planning and the structure of your graduate program. From there, we put together a series of workshops and in-between support structures to upskill, engage and connect your graduates.

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Pre-program evaluation

We start with the strategy (always), looking at what your graduates need to finish the program. Then we build in post-workshop resources that are designed to embed that learning.

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Integrated workshops

Workshops are tailored to your development program strategy and delivered in-person or online by our engaging facilitators who have a real sense of how Gen Z learns. They’re engaging, but that’s not always the goal. Our focus is on challenging your grads and building capability for your organisation.

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People leader sessions

Development strategy goes beyond your early career professionals. We offer training for your people leaders to get the most out of your graduates.

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Post-program evaluation and credentials

Pre- and post- workshop pulse checks show what they’re actually walking away knowing. Our goal isn’t just to deliver a series of workshops, but to make sure your graduate program sets the benchmark for what an early careers program looks like in your industry.

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Strategy

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Development

Start with strategy

A strong early careers program is based on a clear strategy and purpose. Our development programs then help unlock the full potential of your emerging talent.

FAQs

Questions you’re thinking of asking

Can we book a one-off workshop?

What does a development program with Brightworks cost?

How do you measure the outcomes of the development program?

LET'S TALK

Start with strategy

Start with strategy

Start with strategy

We partner with leading organisations across Australia to deliver early careers strategy – and have fun while we’re at it.

We partner with leading organisations across Australia to deliver early careers strategy – and have fun while we’re at it.

Brightworks facilitator presenting to a group at a whiteboard
Brightworks facilitator presenting to a group at a whiteboard

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Shaping early careers with purpose

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