Apply for the 2025 ACT Public Service Graduate Program today!
Be part of something bigger and turn your ambition into action.
The ACT Public Service is a professional, diverse and progressive organisation. Our work directly serves the needs of the Canberra community. Working with us, you can make a difference to people’s lives every day.
Join our 2025 ACT Public Service Graduate Program and we can support you to develop skills, knowledge and networks to build an exciting and rewarding career.
We offer you:
An unrivalled range of career paths, including but not limited to:
2025 ACT Public Service Graduate Program Eligibility - You must:
ACT Public Service is an inclusion focussed employer:
The ACT Public Service actively supports workforce diversity and is committed to creating an inclusive workplace. As part of this commitment, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, people with disability, neurodiverse people, culturally diverse people and those who identify as LGBTQIA+ are encouraged to apply.
Candidates will undergo a range of assessment for the 2025 ACT Public Service Graduate Program. All assessment is designed and developed to assess candidate's alignment with the ACT Public Service (ACTPS) Values and Behaviours and our ACTPS Shared Capability Framework. All our assessment is virtual, including our Assessment Centres!
Applications for the 2025 program are open now and will close Sunday 28 April 2024 at 11:59 AEDT.
Our process includes:
During the VAC you should anticipate behavioural or evidence-based questions, practical exercises (eg aptitude test, situational role-plays, written exams). Evidence-based questions usually aim to gather concrete and specific information about you and usually start with the following phrases:
Australian citizens, Australian permanent residents and New Zealand Citizens can participate in the ACT Public Service Graduate Program.
Note that a New Zealand citizen who resides in Australia and holds a Special Category temporary residence visa (SCV) under the Commonwealth Migration Act 1958 is treated as a permanent resident of Australia for the purpose of assessing that person's eligibility to be employed by the ACT Government but does not affect a person's residency status in relation to any other federal, state or territory law.
The 2025 ACT Government Graduate Program offers a starting salary of $84,061 per annum plus superannuation. On successful completion of the program, graduates are promoted to an ASO5 (or equivalent) Classification on a salary of $93,784 per annum plus superannuation.
ACT Government employees are entitled to various types of leave including four weeks of annual leave and 3.6 weeks of personal leave per annum. Employees can also use compassion, Defence reserve, community service, maternity, bonding and parental leave.
Under ACTPS Enterprise Agreements, graduates may be eligible to receive reimbursement for reasonable costs associated with relocating to the ACT. For further information take a look at the Agreement or speak with the ACTPS Graduate Program Manager about reasonable relocation costs and what is required to access this entitlement.