![]() ![]() Whether students need help developing their CV, advice on how to find a job, interview practice or one-to-one career counselling – the Career Ready team is the place to go. The Career Ready team at La Trobe make it their mission to help students prepare for life after graduation. With professional teaching environments, links to various industries, and placement opportunities that provide real-life work experience, students will leave with an internationally-recognised degree. Research carried out at the University is ranked among the top 1.4% in the world (QS World University Rankings 2017) and facilities include a world-class molecular science complex, an impressive law school and even a wildlife sanctuary. Nothing will change until the State Government installs a new VC.Having turned 50 in 2017, La Trobe University was ranked in the Top 50 Under 50 Universities (QS World University Rankings 2017) and is a young institution with a lot of ambition. Staff turnover is at a high level as people vote with their feet. While research expectations of academics from management are high, there is decreasing, or in some Schools, non-existent, funding for research and conference travel. Those surveys of staff made publicly available are usually gamed (via selective participants) to portray La Trobe in a favourable light. Annual internal surveys repeatedly reveal staff and student satisfaction levels are low and declining. Staff are demoralised and students are affected in turn by this. ![]() It is a constant, tedious and stressful battle to have to argue with department heads over unfair allocation of teaching and admin work every semester. Senior management over several years has selected managers who are prepared to engage in constant bullying of staff to do extra unpaid work and who repeatedly engage in deceptive practices which trick academics and professional staff to do extra unpaid work. La Trobe has a toxic culture which is damaging to your mental health. ![]()
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