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The VPS Graduate Recruitment and Development Scheme

The VPS graduate scheme is challenging, exciting, and an ideal foundation for an interesting and varied career. The program is designed to equip graduates with the skills, knowledge and experience to meet challenges of the workplace, fulfil their potential, and strive to become leaders of the future.

Graduates are recruited on the basis of:

  • academic performance
  • relevant qualifications
  • enthusiasm to meet new challenges.

Under the VPS graduate scheme, graduates are offered a unique opportunity to learn about Government and contribute to a range of initiatives. Those on the VPS scheme will:

  • undergo a structured 12-month learning and development plan that focuses on both formal and on-the-job training
  • rotate through two VPS government departments
  • become part of a strong network of graduates across all Victorian Government departments
  • have the opportunity to fast-track to a successful career in government
  • be offered an ongoing position with DPI upon successful completion of the program.

What areas in DPI do VPS graduates work in?

Our graduates are appointed to positions depending on strategic organisational needs at the time of appointment.

In the past, graduates have been offered roles across all functional and business areas of DPI. Some of these have included:

  • Legislation Services
  • Business Technology Management
  • Earth Resources Policy
  • Energy, Agriculture and Forest Industries Policy
  • Accounting Services
  • Budget and Financial Services
  • Human Resources
  • Governance and Services
  • Economics and Policy Research

When and how to apply for a graduate position

Applications for the 2011 intake of VPS graduates closed on 9 April 2010. Applications for the 2012 program will open in February 2011.

More information about the Victorian Public Service (VPS) Graduate Recruitment and Development Scheme.

Comments from a former VPS graduate

"Participating in the VPS Graduate Scheme provided me with insight into how the whole of government works, the priorities of other government departments, their cultures and how they function differently to DPI.

I enjoyed the responsibility provided to me by the diverse projects that I led on the grad program, as well as the array of people at different levels that I met, and worked with.

The VPS Graduate Scheme has benefited me in my career because it provided me with the opportunity to develop my skills and knowledge in diverse projects and showed that I could complete these projects successfully.

Since finishing the program in 2007, I now lead a few projects in the Earth Resources Policy Unit at DPI."

[Kate Townsend, DPI Policy Officer]