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The exterior of the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare building can be seen with the title “Shelley, 2011 AIHW Graduate”.
This fades into Shelley speaking in front of a lake and trees.
Shelley: When we first found out that we were successful in getting the position, I was contacted by my supervisor quite early on. So once I got to work I actually already had a bit of a relationship with her. They also have a buddy system so my buddy contacted me prior to my starting work as well and then the people unit, HR, are really helpful. They contact you before you start and then sort of have regular meeting in the first few month while you’re here so they really look after you and make sure you’re happy where you are.
Shelley: I work in the Population health unit. We focus on sort of the key priority areas. We do lots of obesity, risk factor kind of work but then also breast feeding, infant feeding. Yeah so sort of larger picture kind of stuff. There’s been lots of L&D opportunities since working here. I think within the first couple of months I got to go to a couple of conferences and it looks like there’s more coming up. And it doesn’t seem to matter where they are, like the one coming up will be in Perth, which is exciting, I’ve never been to Perth. Then they’re also quite supportive in terms of if you have extracurricular things going on like they have study bank kind of opportunities so you can also be studying part time as well.
Shelley: Staff here have done nothing but be encouraging, be welcoming, be open to our ideas and be willing to listen. So whilst there is a hierarchy as there is at any organisation, here it’s a very, feels fairly flat. Everyone’s quite friendly and willing to talk to you and get to know you and be receptive to your ideas.