Ribit in the media
We’d like to share some exciting news! Ribit has a new owner: Stone & Chalk, Australia’s leading emerging industry technology incubator and impact network. Stone & Chalk has been a foundation partner for Ribit since launch early 2016. Read media coverage here: New Home for Jobs Matchmaker, Stone & Chalk acquires Ribit matchmaker The Ribit program …
A recent study published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, maps out the ‘personalities’ of around 3,500 jobs. It found different professions attract people with very different psychological characteristics. This research was a collaborative paper between Ribit’s research lead, Paul McCarthy, and researchers Peggy Kern from University of Melbourne and …
New map matches people’s and job’s personality traits Read More »
University and technical college graduates in Australia face a tough time finding a job without work experience, but a CSIRO research project has changed lives by connecting Australia’s talented students with paid internships.
From the existing annual higher education graduate employment survey data we know that where students study and what they study both have a significant influence on their employment prospects when they graduate. However, a new research report released by CSIRO Data61’s Ribit shows that beyond these factors, course-integrated work is key to improving graduate employability and …
New Research Report on the Impact of Internships Read More »
University PhD graduates are leaving academia in droves and looking for jobs in the private sector and government.
New research based on LinkedIn data has for the first time broken down the PhD job market, revealing that innovative young high-growth companies are large employers of people with doctorates.
The CSIRO’s Data61 has signed up TAFE Digital, the large online education arm of TAFE NSW, to a partnership which will help its students find internships and jobs. TAFE Online students will be able to sign up to the Ribit.net job matching platform run by Data61 to be data matched to available positions in emerging areas such as …
TAFE Digital, Australia’s largest online education provider, and Ribit.net, a student jobs-matching platform, which is part of CSIRO’s Data61 have announced a collaboration that will help connect TAFE Digital students to Australian startups and innovative companies offering jobs and work experience in emerging areas such as big data analytics, cybersecurity, fintech, medtech and artificial intelligence.
The bell rings, interviews wrap up and students move on, making way for those who are next in line to have five minutes with a potential employer. Last week, 120 students were “speed dating” with 20 startup companies at the Sydney Startup Hub in the CBD, looking for the employer who could offer them the …
Fintern Fever: job in 5 minutes, if you’re lucky Read More »
There have been recent reports of companies offering unpaid internships to students for a fee and students paying up to $1000 for a placement. Should university students be expected to pay for work experience with business? We need to ask why is this happening and what can we do about it.
