Employers
Achieve more for your business
Employ a Monash Engineering student full-time for 3, 6 or 12 months through a Co-operative Education Program paid internship, and access the talent of top engineering students ready to explore and develop their careers. If you have a short-term business need, Co-op is a flexible and cost-effective recruitment option that can help your business complete priority projects and tasks, all while identifying and training your future industry leaders.
Train your workforce
Actively train and develop your future workforce to suit your industry’s current and emerging needs. Secure a sought-after Monash-trained engineer as early as the end of their second year.
Complete projects
Employ a job-ready student full-time to complete priority projects and tasks locally, interstate or online, available to start throughout the year.
Partner with Monash
Join a collaborative partnership with one of Australia’s leading universities and play a vital role in strengthening the nation’s engineering capacity for the future.
Hear from Co-op Academic Lead Associate Professor Pippa Connolly.
How it works
The process
- Employers express interest in providing a Co-op internship
- The Co-op team work with employers to clarify needs, timelines and the legal framework
- Employers develop and directly advertise roles specifically to Co-op students
- Eligible students can start internships in Jan-March, Jun-Aug or Nov-Dec
- Employers interview, short-list and and select Co-op students
- Student commences Co-op internship full-time for 3, 6 or 12 months. Students do not undertake any formal study during the internship, but remain enrolled in the Bachelor of Engineering
- The Co-op team conducts a site visit to meet with the student and employer
- Employer re-engages with Co-op team for further internships
Your role as a Co-op employer
As a valued Co-op employer, we will ask you to:
- Offer an embedded and meaningful employment experience for students
- Clarify the role, responsibilities and reporting structure
- Provide a suitably qualified supervisor
- Ensure insurance cover
- Provide relevant induction training
- Provide payment at a comparable new graduate salary rate
- Participate in a site visit from Monash staff and assist in monitoring the students’ progression
- Complete our student performance evaluation
Support from the Co-op team
The Co-op team will work closely with you and your team through the process - from formulating a suitable position to conducting the student performance evaluation. We will:
- Promote your Co-op internship opportunities to our students
- Assist students with their applications, including curriculum vitae preparation and interview technique workshops
- Offer assistance with application processing and short-listing if requested
- Ensure students complete a professional conduct induction before starting
- Assign a Monash staff member to each student to maximise the Co-op term success. This staff member will:
- Monitor students’ progress during the internship including a site visit where possible
- Respond to your feedback and any requests for support
- Enable you to connect with Monash and our students for future collaborative activity
- Ensure students are well prepared for their Co-op term through the employability skills program.
- Conduct a site visit in the workplace. This visit is an opportunity to discuss the student’s progress, review the student’s tasks and responsibilities, and provide valuable feedback.
Employability Skills Program
We offer students a comprehensive Employability Skills Program as a core component of the Co-op Program. Before they start an internship, students complete a suite of essential work-related training modules and personal reflection tasks to ensure they are thoroughly prepared for the workplace and geared towards success from the outset.
Run in conjunction with Monash University Career Connect, the Employability Skills Program ensures our students enter your workplace job-ready and well-supported.
Program modules include:
- Resume writing
- LinkedIn profile training
- Interview skills “how to” workshop
- Mock interviews
- Personal growth videos
- Employment essentials
- Employability skills reflection
- Leap into Leadership Online
- Industry tailored skills sharing sessions and networking events
- Career development fundamentals
- Working in Australia
- Addressing key selection criteria
- Graduate recruitment
- English Connect workshops
Find out what our employers have to say
In the highly competitive automation industry, access to emerging talent is essential to stay ahead of the game. Lachlan, our most recent undergraduate engaged via the Monash Engineering Co-op Program, was able to learn highly technical skills quickly and collaborate with other engineers to produce fantastic results within a customer- driven timeframe. We look forward to getting early access to high quality Monash engineers in the near future!
David Mountford
Manager Vic/Tas
SAFEgroup Automation
The Co-op team provided fantastic support to help us find the best student for a Summer internship in our robotics program. Bryan took to learning new software languages and technology very quickly and became one of the most knowledgeable about the Robotic Operating System in the office. AOS now employees two students part-time that we discovered through the Co-op Program and we look forward to participating again.
Nathan Hamilton
Principal Robotics Engineer, AOS Group
It was an absolute pleasure to be a Co-op employer. Billy was an excellent, enthusiastic performer who very quickly developed a good understanding of the product and started making a contribution. He worked well in the team and, while learning the technology and agile practices we followed, was able to help with the successful completion of several feature deliveries. We are keen to continue our partnership with Monash in this great initiative
Shilpha Vijay Anand
Engineering Manager
Webjet
It is an absolute pleasure to participate in the Monash Engineering Co-op Program. As a Monash graduate myself, I look forward to inviting many more students across the border to SA where there are some amazing things happening in energy. We applaud your Co-op initiative and are right behind you in building better engineers to send out into the world!
Mark Brownley
Engineering Alumnus Monash University
General Manager Field Services
South Australia Power Network