Graduate Recruitment

Careers for IT Specialists

The Department

DEST is fully committed to leading edge technology and is a recognised centre of excellence in the application of technology to support our business. What does this mean for graduates interested in working with IT? It gives you more options than you might expect in many other organisations. It gives you an edge in developing your IT skills.

In DEST there is a great variety of IT work using the latest technology. Access to comprehensive training is provided which may lead to industry recognised Microsoft Certification. The training and experience you gain is likely to stand you in very good stead for future promotion - either in the public service or elsewhere.

So if you are about to qualify in information technology and are interested in career opportunities offered in DEST, we would be interested in hearing from you.

The Work

If successful you can expect to commence your career doing professional and personally rewarding IT work. You’ll be working and training in an organisation offering good prospects for further development and promotion. The work you do is for the benefit of all Australians. For example, your work could help:

improve people's access to education, employment and vocational training opportunities;
bring career information to people in remote communities;
help market Australia's education and training overseas.

The types of work performed include:

Development and support of innovative and advanced applications for the internet, intranet and desktop;
Systems analysis, business analysis and data modelling;
Database design and programming; and
Desktop PC and server support.

The Technology

Desktop PCs running Windows XP and Office XP;
Servers running Windows 2000 (and in some cases .NET);
.NET, C#, Visual Basic 6.0, Active Server Pages, SQL Server 2000, Internet Information Server 5.0, Visual Café Java, Javascript (ECMA Script), HTML, XML, SOAP, Web Services;
TRIM (records management system); and
SAP (financial and human resource system).

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