{"id":47781,"date":"2023-10-20T15:55:04","date_gmt":"2023-10-20T15:55:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/startupsmart.test\/2023\/10\/20\/atlassian-is-one-of-australias-best-employers-of-university-graduates-report-reveals-startupsmart\/"},"modified":"2023-10-20T15:55:04","modified_gmt":"2023-10-20T15:55:04","slug":"atlassian-is-one-of-australias-best-employers-of-university-graduates-report-reveals-startupsmart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/uncategorized\/atlassian-is-one-of-australias-best-employers-of-university-graduates-report-reveals-startupsmart\/","title":{"rendered":"Atlassian is one of Australia&#8217;s best employers of university graduates, report reveals &#8211; StartupSmart"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"332\" itemprop=\"image\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Atlassian-co-founders-640x332.jpg\" alt=\"Atlassian co-founders\" title=\"Atlassian co-founders\"><\/div>\n<p>Australian tech success story Atlassian is one of the best employers of university graduates in 2017, according to the Australian Association of Graduate Employers (AAGE).<\/p>\n<p>Each year AAGE surveys over 2,500 graduates who have been working for 12 months, asking them questions about their employer. The group then releases a list of the companies&nbsp;that the graduates believe to be the best employers, with results based entirely on survey feedback.<\/p>\n<p><b>Read more:&nbsp;<\/b><strong>The 50 best places to work in Australia revealed<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This year Atlassian was ranked fifth on the AAGE list, which includes 75 different employers. This is an increase from last year, when the software company placed eighth on the list.<\/p>\n<p>The AAGE website provides comments from the graduates about their employers, with one graduate praising Atlassian for \u201cfreedom and independence\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am constantly being challenged and able to grow and I feel rewarded for my growth,\u201d said one graduate.<\/p>\n<p>Despite this enthusiasm, a report from the World Economic Forum&nbsp;in 2016 found less than 4% of 1000 Australian STEM students are interested in working for a startup.<\/p>\n<p>At the time, Melbourne University engineering student Robert Holt&nbsp;told <em>StartupSmart<\/em>&nbsp;there is a belief that working for a startup straight out of university would \u201cdiminish your employability\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s not a private sentiment\u2014it\u2019s something that I\u2019ve discussed with friends of mine that have categorically said that if you go straight into the workforce with a startup it\u2019ll diminish your employability,\u201d Holt&nbsp;said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople aren\u2019t concerned about income; they\u2019re concerned about their long-term employability. It\u2019s more of a gamble on pretty much every front.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3>The top 10 graduate employers according to AAGE<\/h3>\n<p>1. ThoughtWorks Australia<br \/>                         2. Department of Mines and Petroleum (WA)<br \/>                         3. KordaMentha<br \/>                         4. Laing O\u2019Rourke<br \/>                         5. Atlassian<br \/>                         6. AMP<br \/>                         7. Water Corporation<br \/>                         8. Australian Securities and Investments Commission<br \/>                         9. ShineWing Australia<br \/>                         10. Australia Post<\/p>\n<p>The full list of 75 employers can be found here.<\/p>\n<p><em>This article was originally published on SmartCompany.&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"td-post-content td-pb-padding-side\">\n<p><em>Fo<\/em>llow StartupSmart on&nbsp;<em>Facebook,<\/em>&nbsp;<em>Twitter,&nbsp;LinkedIn&nbsp;and iTunes.&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australian tech success story Atlassian is one of the best employers of university graduates in 2017, according to the Australian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":58350,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47781"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47781\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}