The Australian Government offers graduates job opportunities across multiple disciplines. Ignite your career with pathways for every background, degree and potential.
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Applications for the 2027 Graduate Program are now open.
We work collaboratively with other APS agencies to recruit talented individuals through other specialty graduate and entry level programs. These speciality graduate programs are co-ordinated centrally by Australian Government Graduate Program (AGGP).
Our Department participates in the below AGGP streams.
- Accounting and Financial Management Stream
- Data Stream
- Digital Stream
- Generalist Stream
- Human Resource Stream
- Legal Stream
- Economist Stream
- STEM Stream
- Indigenous Graduate Stream
Applying to one of these speciality streams means you only have to go through the application and selection process for your selected speciality stream once to be considered for a range of Government agencies.
Applying to one of these speciality streams means you only have to go through the application and selection process for your selected speciality stream once to be considered for a range of Australian Government agencies.
Make sure you nominate the Department of Employment and Workplace Relations as your preferred agency for your chance to join us and ignite your career!
New and recent graduates with Higher Education (university) qualifications are encouraged to applyApplications for most streams close on 13 April 2026, except for the Data, Digital and Generalist Streams, which close on 31 March 2026, and the Economics Stream, which closes on 7 April 2026.
For more information about our program, please contact entrylevel@dewr.gov.au.