Contributing People One of the most important considerations in selecting a profession is the availability of employment. If Australia is to keep pace with the technological developments of its market competitors, countries such as the United States, United Kingdom and Japan, then the need for professional engineers will increase, and increase significantly. Traditionally, all of the engineering graduates from the University of Adelaide find full time employment. In fact, there are often more enquiries from employers than there are students.
Graduate employment is spread across local, interstate, and overseas firms.
Employment opportunities for engineering graduates in general are also good. The University of Adelaide has a careers office, which can help students who are nearing completion of their study find employment. There is also help from within the School of Engineering, and from within the various engineering departments themselves. Each year, a wide variety of companies come to the School of Engineering on recruitment drives, giving seminars and interviews on-campus. However, the best promotion of our current students continues to be the success of our past ones, which provides employers with confidence in the quality of our graduates.