Promote your business on campus: employer and industry events

Raise awareness of your business, brand or organisation by promoting your opportunities to AUT students and graduates. Find out how you can connect with our students, either on campus or online.

Attend a career expo to meet students and graduates

Career expos are a key feature on our students' calendar – as well as an essential event for many organisations’ recruitment campaigns.

Here is your chance to get in front of students to promote your organisation and graduate roles, as well as meet potential employees.

Semester 1, 2024

March

  • Business and Law Career Expo - Tuesday 5 March
  • ICT and Engineering Career Expo - Thursday 21 March

May

  • Hospitality, Tourism, Events & Culinary Arts Career Expo – Tuesday 7 May
  • Community and Public Sector Career Expo - Wednesday 8 May

Semester 2, 2024

August

  • Science Career Expo – Thursday 25 July
  • Summer Volunteering Expo – TBA

Contact us to find out more

Be a guest speaker, give a presentation or join a panel to connect with our students

We run lots of events across our campuses each year. You can join our leadership speaker series, give a presentation, join a panel, deliver a workshop – or contact us to talk about other ways you can engage our students and graduates, either on campus or online.

Recent employers that offered presentations included KiwiRail, SkyCity, TupuToa, Ministry of Social Development, 2 Degrees, Harrison Grierson and PWC.

Contact us to find out more

Partner with us in our employability awards

The AUT Edge Award (open to all students) and Beyond AUT Award (for postgraduate students) encourage students to get involved in activities outside of study – they complete projects in volunteering, employability, leadership and challenge. These awards are all about giving students the chance to get involved with charitable initiatives and organisations they support and believe in.

We'd love to talk with you if you have a volunteering opportunity for a student to:

  • Help the community or a charitable organisation while developing their skills
  • Take on a leadership role with more responsibility

We also run a Volunteering Expo each year.

Contact us to find out more

News
Why Bother to Write a Cover Letter?
Right Job Search with AUT talenthub
Helping Students Find Their Way Through Education
Employers want to meet you
Great Tips from AUT Alumni at Speed Networking
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Why Bother to Write a Cover Letter?
Why Bother to Write a Cover Letter?
09 Jan, 2023
Students often ask whether they should bother with writing a cover letter. When I surveyed 15 employers recently about CVs and cover letters, I found six of them read a candidate’s cover letter before they read their CV – yep before! Only two employers considered a cover letter optional. So short answer - yes, it is worthwhile. Here’s are some of those employers' thoughts on cover letters.
Right Job Search with AUT talenthub
Right Job Search with AUT talenthub
15 Sep, 2022
Finding a great graduate role takes time and energy but using AUT talenthub made a big difference to the outcome for AUT graduate Gerard Gomez, who recently landed a graduate software engineering role at Gentrack. “AUT talenthub helped me stand out from the other graduate software engineers vying for roles,” says Gerard.
Helping Students Find Their Way Through Education
Helping Students Find Their Way Through Education
06 Dec, 2022
Leaving uni is just the first step along your career path. Patele-Joe is a great example of that, and of the importance of using employability and career services.
Employers want to meet you
Employers want to meet you
26 Jul, 2022
We are coming to meet you - come and meet us. That is the callout from employers who are lining up to attend career fairs on campus.Fisher and Paykel Healthcare talent acquisition adviser Rahul Shah said he was delighted to have the opportunity to be on campus at the recent AUT Business, Law and Economics career fair. He strongly encouraged students to make the most of employer visits.
Great Tips from AUT Alumni at Speed Networking
Great Tips from AUT Alumni at Speed Networking
11 Oct, 2022
AUT alumni gave time and insights to AUT students recently at a speed networking event to help students improve their networking. Alumni talk about the insights they offered to students who left the highly successful event beaming with renewed confidence in their ability to network.

Contact us

We can help you raise your company's profile among AUT students and connect you with AUT's top student and graduate talent.

Email autemploy@aut.ac.nz

Recruit a student or graduate

Are you looking for fresh talent for your business?

Use our specialist recruitment agency to do the work for you, or post a job on our job board for maximum exposure to students and recent graduates.

Find AUT talent for your business