What we are looking for
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Personal attributes
To ensure that we meet the challenge of developing highly competitive and sustainable industries we need people who are motivated to work for the department, and who:
- have well developed written and oral communication skills
- have strong interpersonal skills
- work well as a member of a team
- are critical thinkers
- are innovative
- can solve problems
- use their initiative
- are flexible.
If you have the skills and attributes we are looking for, we encourage you to apply for the department's Graduate Development Program. Indigenous Australians and people with disability are encouraged to apply.
Through the graduate program, the department offers you a career, not just a job.
Academic disciplines
The department is responsible for a diverse range of activities and recruits from all academic disciplines. These include, but are not limited to:
- Agricultural Economics and Agricultural Sciences
- Arts
- Business/Commerce
- Communications/Public Relations/Marketing
- Economics
- Entomology
- Environmental Studies
- Fisheries
- Food Science/Technology
- Forestry
- Human Resources/Industrial Relations
- Law
- Natural Resource Management
- Public Policy
- Resource Management
- Rural Studies
- Science—including environmental, rural, plant, animal, marine, veterinary and social sciences
- Veterinary Science.
Last reviewed: 28 Sep 2009
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