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What should you study to get into Coles' grad program?

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Justin [00:00:01] Perfect. So just moving on here. Yeah, it sounds so like obviously if I was talking, for example, to like an accounting firm and I were to ask, what do you know? I wouldn't be asking, what do you recommend? Students typically study to work with you, but Coles being so, you know, let's say general and probably taking graduates from lots of different fields. Are there certain, let's say, degrees or certain fields of study that you do tend to look for most often in your graduates? 

Rem [00:00:22] It's a good question. So we because we have the two graduate programs and one being more corporate and commercial and one being focused in the operations part of our business, it gives us actually a really huge breadth of educational backgrounds that we're interested in. And so, you know, for our school support center graduate program, we have over 20 different streams for that program. And the majority of those streams are open to a large number of educational backgrounds. For those actually applying through our program, we tend to see people from, for example, management in commerce, law, accounting, though those kinds of backgrounds probably more frequently. But at the same time, we have people who studied food science. We have people who studied microbiology and immunology and criminology and all kinds of really varied backgrounds that you wouldn't necessarily immediately associate with a role with an organization like Coles. But from our perspective, this is it's really important because one, you know, a lot of parts of our business, perhaps more than educational backgrounds, rely on things like transferable skills, you know, people in relationship type skills as far as what is important for people to perform well in their ... in their roles. But in addition to that, we actually are trying to broaden our approach and consideration of different educational backgrounds because we think it brings a great diversity of thought as well. And that's something that's really important to us as a business. 

Justin [00:02:03] Okay. And perfect. So you would say primarily, most often it's going to be like business management and accounting type or finance sorts of people. 

Rem [00:02:12] That probably gives you eligibility for a greater number of content streams. But, you know, even ones outside of that, you know, just Bachelor of Science, Bachelor ... We had Bachelor of Science, Bachelor of Mathematics. We've got engineering and information systems and technology like the whole gamut of degrees that are currently offered by universities and other tertiary institutions. But we basically cater for between the two programs. So you won't be eligible for every stream, but somewhere in there there's a stream that's right for you. 

Justin [00:02:42] I love it. Really, really open. I like that.