Whether you’re recruiting graduates, promoting internships, or looking to connect with students through projects and industry engagement, there are a range of ways to reach UC students and graduates.
Explore the options below to find the best fit for your organisation and opportunity.
Advertising opportunities to our students can and do happen throughout the year; however, some periods see higher levels of recruitment engagement. Graduate roles in the following areas have specific peaks:
- Business and Law: February, March
- Engineering: February, March, May, June
Summer Internships are often advertised throughout the year, but we see a peak in roles advertised around July and August.
The August–October window is the peak season for New Zealand summer internship applications (typically for penultimate-year students), while many formal graduate programmes often kick off earlier in the year but have rolling intakes or late-year extensions. The busiest time for these applications is between July and September.
Please don’t consider these as the only time you can advertise. Students will be looking throughout the year. Some of the larger Accounting, Law, and Engineering firms do come to market for their internship and graduate programmes at these times.
We recommend reviewing the University of Canterbury key dates for the academic year to also assist you when planning to go to market.
We offer paid targeted emails to help promote your roles with relevant UC students and recent graduates. Through a targeted campaign, we can help direct students to these opportunities and increase visibility among relevant audiences.
Roles can be advertised through platforms such as SEEK, Prosple, LinkedIn, or your organisation’s careers webpage. Through paid targeted email campaigns, we can help direct students to these opportunities and increase visibility among relevant audiences.
For part-time, casual, summer, and volunteering opportunities, we recommend advertising through platforms such as Student Job Search and Volunteering Canterbury.
While we do not directly promote these individual roles to students, we regularly encourage students through newsletters, workshops, and other touchpoints to engage with these platforms as part of their job search.
You may also wish to further engage students through your ongoing relationship with UC student clubs.
If your opportunity involves work-integrated learning, industry projects, or course-related collaboration, we may be able to connect you with relevant UC faculty or staff to explore opportunities further.
You can also partner with the PACE Internship Programme, where students work with organisations on real-world projects across a wide range of disciplines and areas of expertise.
