JobsWA is the primary medium for advertising government jobs. Advertising more broadly helps attract more diverse applicants.
After completing this section, you will have:
- considered advertising options that best suit the vacancy.
Actions
- Increase visibility and encourage more applicants to apply for jobs by:
- maximising the value of your agency’s website to attract and inform candidates
- engaging with employment service providers that help and support jobseekers
- advertising on online jobs boards
- using specific industry, professional, university, disability and cultural online jobs boards
- using social media platforms that attract your target audience
- placing advertisements on physical noticeboards in universities and shopping centres
- publishing in newsletters and emails to professional and culturally diverse groups
- writing features in local newspapers, especially in regional areas or hard to fill metropolitan locations
- placing your advertisement on websites where potential applicants might engage
- being present at careers expos and local events
- advertising on radio and television (for large scale recruitment projects).
- Direct applicants through your advertisement to the vacancy on JobsWA so there is a single reference point for consistency.
Resources
- Case Study: Graduate Recruitment Strategy
- Aboriginal Services Jobs Board; Indigenous Employment Australia or people with disability such as WA Public Sector Disability Employment Confidence and JobAccess
