“What we do today, defines our Australia tomorrow.”
– Michael Combs, Founder of CareerSeekers and CareerTrackers
About
About
CareerSeekers is a non-profit organisation supporting Australia’s humanitarian entrants into professional careers. Our program provides in-depth preparation and support to both refugees and people seeking asylum who are either currently studying at university, or looking to restart their professional career in Australia.
Our program supports two distinct groups of asylum seekers and refugees:
Mid-career Professionals – those with tertiary qualifications and professional work experience from their country of origin, who strive to re-establish their careers in Australia. These participants undertake paid internships lasting twelve weeks that provide local experience, a local reference and help them establish a network within their chosen profession.
University students – full-time university students who undertake paid internships during university breaks in an effort to link their studies with practical work experience. The CareerSeekers university program aligns to existing corporate internship programs.
In 2015, Founder of CareerTrackers, Michael Combs, sought to expand the successful model he had established to support pre-professional Indigenous university students. With the establishment of CareerSeekers, corporate Australia’s focus on multicultural diversity was applied to tackle the issue of underemployment of asylum seekers and refugees.
CareerSeekers is endorsed as an Item 1 Deductible Gift Recipient organisation
CareerSeekers explained
Our Board
Penny Graham (Chair)
Independent Director
Anthony Ewan
Partner
EY
Edward Santow
Industry Professor – Responsible Technology at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS)
Bwe Thay
Deputy Chairperson
Victorian Multicultural Commission
Michael Greene
Deputy Managing Partner
Norton Rose Fullbright
Chantal Mousad
Senior Manager, Business Control and Monitoring
Westpac
Advisory Committees
Ian Narev
Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer
SEEK
Susan Clear
Director, Social Impact Investing
Macquarie Group
Manish Jayswal
Head of Consumer Finance Risk and Portfolio Insight
Westpac
Daniel Veytsblit
Founding Partner
Backbone Partners
Nyadol Nyuon, OAM
Executive Director, Sir Zelman Cowen Centre, Victoria University
Founder
Michael Combs
Our Team
“What we do today, defines our Australia tomorrow.”
-Michael Combs, Founder of CareerSeekers
and CareerTrackers
About
About
CareerSeekers is a non-profit organisation supporting Australia’s humanitarian entrants into professional careers. Our program provides in-depth preparation and support to both refugees and people seeking asylum who are either currently studying at university, or looking to restart their professional career in Australia.
Our program supports two distinct groups of asylum seekers and refugees:
Mid-career Professionals – those with tertiary qualifications and professional work experience from their country of origin, who strive to re-establish their careers in Australia. These participants undertake paid internships lasting twelve weeks that provide local experience, a local reference and help them establish a network within their chosen profession.
University students – full-time university students who undertake paid internships during university breaks in an effort to link their studies with practical work experience. The CareerSeekers university program aligns to existing corporate internship programs.
In 2015, Founder of CareerTrackers, Michael Combs, sought to expand the successful model he had established to support pre-professional Indigenous university students. With the establishment of CareerSeekers, corporate Australia’s focus on multicultural diversity was applied to tackle the issue of underemployment of asylum seekers and refugees.
CareerSeekers is endorsed as an Item 1 Deductible Gift Recipient organisation.
CareerSeekers
explained
Our Board
Penny Graham (Chair)
Independent Director
Michael Combs
Founder
Anthony Ewan
Partner EY
Edward Santow
Industry Professor – Responsible Technology
at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS)
Bwe Thay
Deputy Chairperson
Victorian Multicultural Commission
Michael Greene
Deputy Managing Partner
Norton Rose Fullbright
Chantal Mousad
Senior Manager, Business Control and Monitoring Westpac
Jalal Albshara
(Voluntary)
Advisory Committees
Ian Narev
Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer SEEK
Susan Clear
Director, Social Impact
Investing
Macquarie Group
Manish Jayswal
Head of Consumer Finance
Risk and Portfolio Insight
Westpac
Daniel Veytsblit
Founding Partner
Backbone Partners
Nyadol Nyuon, OAM
Executive Director, Sir
Zelman Cowen Centre,
Victoria University
Our Team
Simon Jones
Program Manager (Student Stream) [email protected]
Laalanne Rind
Senior Advisor (Careers Specialist) [email protected]
