Career Prospects at WSP Australia

Opportunity exists for promotion pending ongoing high performance

I am neutral at the moment as I have only just started my job. I will seek to understand more about such opportunities in the future.

Get promoted on a years of experience basis generally

Too early to say.

Promotion opportunities do not seem to come up unless the employee initiates and asks how to move up professionally.

Promotion is an area in which I need to look into for future development. As previously noted, I have been on site for most of this year. Given this I am unable to link to my group as well as I would like.

The graduate programme lasts 2 years, and you cannot progress unless you have completed this programme. Afterwards, there is a competency checklist which you progressively fill out in order to meet the requirements to progress. This is self-paced, and regular conversations with your line manager allows you to progress faster.

Not very transparent. Complete a success profiles rubric to make sure you meet criteria for promotion. Annual salary review

Very slow improvement with very little gain from upwards movement.

It depends not on how hard you work but who you know and happen to work with. I don't think it's a very transparent system.

Goals for progression are clear

Have only recently started so haven't thought or been told much about career progression yet.

Still a little unsure on how this works

I joined initially with the idea of trying each discipline and finding one that I liked and wanted to progress further into, but I haven't had many opportunities to try every discipline yet. Since starting I've worked with the rail team, Jimblebar Benefication modularization team, and some small odd projects where they needed someone to help fill a role which didn't last longer than a month. Haven't been accepted into a TAFE course yet.

As I'm a graduate I'm still learning what opportunities there are for when I complete the graduate programme. But I have been able to do my own research on what ranks there are and how there is work in other groups which is great.

I have not had the best experience with promotion and career progression opportunities. I will not be able to answer the last part.

There is no procedure and opportunities of promotion we have for graduates.

There seems to be plenty of opportunity, too early to comment.

Typical career progression is 2 years as a graduate engineer prior to promotion, and then there are several different pathways you can take, depending on your interests. There are clear guidelines within each business group on what skills and experience you are required to have for each role.

When it comes to promotion, it's really boring things to go through. In my business group I have to submit a very long excel sheet which can show case my experience and so on. I think it should be waived off as per other business group in WSP.