Overall quite good. Culture around inclusion and diversity varies greatly across smaller work teams but the overall culture and work happening this space across the VPS is great.
Graduate, Melbourne
Extremely diverse and accepting organisation. There are many employee support networks established to represent and support staff who identify with specific minority communities. In addition to this, there are leave policies in place that recognise cultural and medical leave, and you can have discussions with your managers to establish a flexible working arrangement to suit your personal needs.
Graduate, Melbourne
Program is excellent with respect to inclusion of women, neurodiversity, and the disability pathways, but could improve on recruitment for ethnic minorities and gender diverse candidates. The more diverse the pool, the better outcomes for the public sector as well as supporting minorities.
Graduate, Melbourne
Good leave policies. Encouraged to take leave, and options for leave at half pay or no pay. Flexibility is amazing, pretty much will never get leave declined. Pretty common to have ads for temporary roles to backfill people, and these are usually filled by people going on secondment.
Graduate, Melbourne
great at gender diversity and there are lots of women in management roles. good at other forms of diversity but still a ways to go. Still a fair amount of racism and bias against people of colour and ATSI people
Graduate, Melbourne
I think the department is making good progress with diversity of gender and sexuality. There are lots of women in manager and executive roles. However, I think that career progression is impacted by maternity leave and childcare arrangements. A lot of women work part time to look after their kids.
Graduate, Melbourne