Your alumni are competing in the hardest job market in a decade. We give them the edge.
In-person workshops built from 22 years inside recruitment. Delivered by someone who has been on both sides of the hiring table.
The institutions that invest in employability support do not just tick a box. They do it because their alumni’s career outcomes are a direct reflection of the quality of their standards.
Career Hijack workshops are built for that standard. Not generic career advice recycled from a textbook. Specific, practical insider knowledge from someone who has spent 22 years observing and understanding hiring decisions, advising leaders and executives on how to move and watching exactly what separates the candidates who succeed from those who do not.
Every workshop is delivered in person by Paul Swanwick. One day or half-day formats depending on the topic. Designed for business school alumni , postgraduate cohorts and professional members who are actively managing their careers and preparing for a transition.
Why Career Hijack
Paul Swanwick has spent more than 2 decades at the intersection of recruitment, hiring advice and career development. He has made over a thousand successful hires across industries in Australia, coached CEO’s, MD’s and Senior Executives through career transitions. He has sat in the room where hiring decisions are made and knows exactly how they work.
That knowledge is what your alumni get. Not theory. Not a motivational talk. The specific, actionable intelligence that changes how someone searches, how they present themselves and how they perform when it counts.
A Complete Job Search Strategy (Full Day)
This workshop breaks down a job search into 7 distinct parts, empowering us to take ownership with implementable strategies and accountability structures to see us to our goal.
Elite Interview Performance (Full Day)
Preparation, preparation, preparation. We all know we should prepare but how do we focus on performance and ensure we give our absolute best? We'll look at routines, communication, answer structures, presentation and confidence then bring them all together.
Advanced Networking Strategy (Half Day)
With more than half of career changes never coming from job ad applications, there's an argument for us to invest time and energy in building out or professional network before and during a job search.
Optimising AI for Your Career Change (Half Day)
AI has become a very useful ally in our day to day lives, but when does it become counter-productive? In this workshop we'll look at the positive application of AI, where it supports our journey and when to draw the line on it's influence.
Application to Interview: Building the Resume that Converts (Full Day)
Building a resume with the right message and content to market ourselves is the start. Evolving that strategy to secure interviews is quite another. We'll take a detailed look at both these aspects individually then examine how they are very closely linked to vastly improve our application to interview ratio.