Our partners

We’ve been offering professional placement programs for over 55 years. In the last few years, 400 plus organisations, from start-ups to multinational companies, have accessed more than 2000 future-ready students through our Professional Placements and Professional Internships programs.

As well as being a valuable learning opportunity for students, our programs offer organisations a great way to access fresh ideas, support long-term projects, and help your organisations during high activity and growth.

Creating graduate pipelines

  • Optimising

    Swinburne students during their placement at Optimising

    Optimising Co-Founder James Richardson shares his experience hiring professional placement students and how they are shaping the digital marketing industry to what it is today.

  • Accru Melbourne

    Colour image of four people two men and two women, walking down a park carrying a laptop and coffee, smiling and chatting.

    Kate Cain has found placements a great way to recruit high-quality permanent employees.

  • Cobalt Design

    Cobalt Design's Steve Martinuzzo sitting with his hand resting on his chin, wearing a blue collared shirt.

    Steve Martinuzzo describes how placement students integrate with the workplace and transform into potential long-term employees.

  • Melbourne Water

    Photograph of Jarrod Mitchell from Melbourne water. Jarrod stands in front of a staircase and is wearing a suit jacket and shirt.

    Jarrod Mitchell explains how the professional placements program is developing the next generation of engineers.

  • Metro Trains

    Photograph of Nathan Loriente from Metro Trains. Nathan wears a white collared shirt and jacket and is standing in front of an office.

    Nathan Loriente describes the life-cycle benefits of placing students at Metro Trains.

  • The Royal Melbourne Hospital

    Image of seven people in surgical masks and scrubs standing behind a hospital bed looking at the camera, surrounded by surgical equipment.

    Shannon Watt explains why they employ 75% of their former placement students.

  • Decmil

    Photograph of Decmil professional placement student Kelsey Ingham wearing a hard hat and safety vest on a construction site.

    Emily Trevaskis shares how engaging placement students can support business growth and strategy.

Resourcing fresh talent 

  • Hearth

    A placement student accompanying a disabled child on a walk outside a house

    Justin Scanlon on how disability services should embrace partnership opportunities with Swinburne.

  • Rural Northwest Health

    Photograph of Dr Kaye Knight of Rural Northwest Health with a professional placement student. Both women are wearing black and sitting outdoors with trees behind them.

    Dr Kaye Knight describes the unique work experiences that students receive at RNH.

  • City of Yarra

    Photograph of Peter Moran standing in front of a construction site wearing a safety vest and hard hat.

    Peter Moran describes the civil engineer professional placement program at the City of Yarra.

  • Siemens

    Swinburne logo on modern campus building

    Steffen Raab on how placements gives Siemens access to a regular flow of high quality IT students.

  • Agilent Technologies

    Lauren Atalla on how work integrated learning helps deliver their services.

  • DataSauce

    Two female working around a laptop and interacting with each other.

    Poppy Andrews on how placement students help support their ethos and goals.

Helping a student develop and grow

A development opportunity for your staff

  • Grey Innovation

    Jefferson Harcourt, Executive Chair of Grey Innovation.

    Swinburne alumni Jefferson Harcourt speaks of how much he enjoyed his time at Swinburne and how it help prepare him for his entrepreneurial career.

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