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Cognizant Australia is a Top Graduate Employer

By Steven Burrows, Senior Learning Executive, Cognizant Academy — Thu, Mar 24, 2022

Introduction

The Top Graduate Employer rankings by the Australian Association of Graduate Employers (AAGE) are a beacon to the best places to work for new graduates entering the workforce. The rankings are determined entirely from survey feedback gathered from graduates who have spent up to 12 months working with Australian organisations. AAGE annual rankings are now in their tenth year, and Cognizant Australia finished in the AAGE Top 75 ranking this year (2022) having participated for just the first time.

Methodology

The AAGE rankings were derived from a survey conducted with approximately 3,000 graduates in November and December 2021. To be eligible, the graduates needed to have commenced with their employer during the 2021 calendar year, which allowed up to the full year for them to gain experience in their organisation before taking part in the survey.

AAGE 2022 Top Graduate Employer
Cognizant Australia is an AAGE Top Graduate Employer for 2022.

The survey was conducted in an anonymous manner, and took into consideration ratings of their employer for a large number of categories including orientation/induction, training/development, quality of work, career progression, supervisor/manager, compensation/benefits, work/life balance, and company culture. The results are combined to form an overall rating for each organisation, and the organisations with the top 75 ratings are published.

Conclusion

The picture below shows the 25 graduates who successfully completed Cognizant’s graduate training program in 2021 (otherwise known as “Generation Cognizant” or “GenC”) and their two trainers Steven Burrows and Peter McDonald. All these graduates received invitations to participate in the AAGE Top Graduate Employer rankings from which the recognition was given.

GenC 2021
Left to right, top to bottom: 2021 intake 1 GenC’s Austin, Clement, Derrick, Jamie, Jason, Jordan, Labeeb, Sanjeev and Thisal, followed by 2021 intake 2 GenC’s Adam, Albert, Alex, Anaika, Ashleigh, Avtar, Brandon, Daniel, Dhairya, Ezgi, Huma, Jenny, Jonathan, Karin, Kento and Sam, followed by trainers Peter and Steven.

The achievements of our graduates in 2021 are described in more depth in the 2021 intake 1 and 2021 intake 2 blog articles. We are also looking forward to a much-expanded GenC program in 2022 with significant increases to both the number of intakes and the number of graduates.