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ANU JobMatch

ANU JobMatch is a central recruitment service that sources and manages quality job applicants for targeted employment requirements. It has four distinct streams:

  • Casual Employment
  • ANU Diversity Initiative
  • Redeployment
  • Technical Staff Pool

It offers business areas within the ANU a range of options for filling vacancies as they arise. The University seeks to offer flexible, equitable and responsible employment placements and to maintain and develop its organisational knowledge and experience base.

The Benefits of JobMatch

Here are some sound reasons why using ANU JobMatch benefits your business area:

Casual Employment

Using JobMatch to fill casual staffing needs offers the following benefits:

  • We understand the University culture and its employment needs
  • A cost effective option
  • Locates people quickly
  • Draws on a talent pool who often have ANU experience
  • Offers flexible placements from a few hours to six months
  • Has a diversity of skills on call.

So on those occasions when you experience staff shortages and absences, workload increases, seasonal variations, and temporary or new initiatives or projects think ANU JobMatch.

ANU Diversity Initiative

Using JobMatch's Diversity Initiative offers the following benefits:

  • Offers pre-screened applicants
  • Draws on a diversity of talents and experiences
  • Offers cost saving and time savings compared to advertising a vacancy
  • Contributes to achieving equity in the ANU workforce and enriching its culture
  • Access to free resources through government funded work experience programs.

Redeployment: investing in our staff

In some instances JobMatch will recommend an existing ANU staff member who is eligible for redeployment for a vacancy. The benefits of filling the vacancy in this way include:

  • Cost and timesavings for the business area in comparison to advertising
  • Maintains and uses established organizational knowledge
  • Redeployed staff are supported in these placements
  • The vacancy placement is for a trial period with appropriate evaluation and review
  • At times the originating work area subsidizes or bears the costs associated with trial placement of redeployed staff.

Technical Staff Pool

Using JobMatch to fill technical staffing needs offers the following benefits:

  • Applicants from the Technical Pool have relevant experience and an understanding of University culture.
  • Maintains ANU organizational knowledge
  • Offers cost and time savings compared to advertising
  • Offers an effective and easy option of filling technical needs
  • Complies with the provisions of the ANU Enterprise Agreement 2003-2006.

Visit us: Human Resources, Chancelry Building 10A, ANU

For further information contact:
Amanda Silk , phone: 6125 5897, e-mail: jobmatch@anu.edu.au