Industry to Student  Networking Event

You will have a 1 minute 'elevator pitch' summarising your organisation and the types of projects/activities that you may have a student intern undertake. The student will have a 30 second version. Each interaction only estimated to last 5 minutes.

Any videos submitted will be hosted on a platform UniSA uses called Panopto. They will be made available only to students, they will not appear on a publicly available website.

The beauty of this platform is it accepts pretty much any form of video file, so you can record and send from your phone/tablet if that’s easier for you, or simply record a Zoom/Teams on your computer.

What should your video look like? It is to be a maximum 1-minute pitch to camera succinctly outlining who your organisation is and what opportunities you have available. Fair warning, anything longer than a minute will be cropped.

We first trialled this in April 2023 and had everything from people speaking to their phone camera through to polished corporate videos. Whatever works for you, however I can say students much prefer a personalised message, ones showing what their day might look like got much higher views.

How do you get the videos to us? Whatever is easiest really, you can send us a link to a file sharing platform (e.g. Dropbox or Google Drive), or even just the link to YouTube or similar. 

Due to the scale of the event this is likely not possible. However, we do try and rotate people as much as possible. These rotations are all formulated prior to the event based on the preferences noted when you register, this enables you the opportunity to engage with the highest number of relevant students possible.

Short answer is YES, however there are 2 caveats to this - everyone will need to register individually so we can track numbers, and as we are limited with capacity we may have to restrict numbers per organisation to give everyone an opportunity. We would recommend you coordinate your registrations so that you nominate as many disciplines as relevant, spread between your team. Note - the room capacity is 400 pax so if we run out of space we may ask organisations with multiple registrants to reduce their numbers.

We don't share this level of detail prior to the event. We will provide you a sheet which you will use to record the students' name, ID number and any notes. You will then share the details of your preferred students in the survey after the event. The names of registered organisations will be sent in pre-event updates to students so they can undertake some prior research.