If you are eligible for a GradStart position, you will get an email on Tuesday 23 July 2024 to invite you to an interview in August.
If you do not receive an email inviting you to interview, please contact the GradStart Coordinator for your first employment preference as soon as possible.
You must reply to accept or decline the invitation by Tuesday 30 July 2024.
All GradStart applicants are interviewed during the state-wide interview period, between Monday 5 August and Friday 30 August 2024.
Specific interview dates and times vary between sites. You are interviewed once only by the employer you chose as your first employment preference.
If you cannot attend the scheduled interview, contact the GradStart Coordinator as soon as possible to reschedule. If you do not respond to the invitation to interview, your application will be withdrawn. If you do not attend the interview as scheduled, your application will be withdrawn.
Interviews can be nerve-racking and stressful even for people with many years’ experience. Being confident at interview comes with practice.
Remember that attitude and appearance are important. Be on time for you interview and dress smartly to show have thought about your appearance.
These tips can help you practise and prepare for an interview.
Interview questions are based around the selection criteria.
Interviews are also about building a relationship with your potential employer. Consider what your employer might want in a graduate nurse or midwife, such as:
You can practise interviews by creating your own questions and answers. It is important that you can explain your knowledge and understanding as well as demonstrate your skills and attributes.
Practise together with friends, taking turns being the interviewer and being the applicant.
Use examples from your own clinical experiences to support your responses to the interview questions.
Practise answering questions without your notes is important too.
Check with your university about providing mock interview practice and resources.
Your invitation to interview letter will advise you to bring several documents with you to the interview. This will include your: