Sidekicker and RMIT Partnership

Sally:                Before doing Marketplace, I didn't really have much experience. I had a few freelance jobs and I did an internship, but I'd never worked for a big professional company.

                        Hi, my name is Sally and I'm a graphic design student at RMIT. I tried out the Student Marketplace so that I could gain industry experience and have a level up on my peers when applying for jobs.

Tom Amos:       Sidekicker's vision is to give people the power to reach their potential. What it really means is how do we help people gain experience, how do we help them get opportunities. At the click of a button, you can get hired and you don't have to do any admin on your side.

Sally:                Get a notification with a variety of jobs posted and I just applied for the ones that sounded like something I'd be good at.

Tom Amos:       What happened previously is this was really quite a high friction process. To get someone in your business for a day: use the traditional recruitment firm, there'd be high fees, you'd have no idea who was turning up. That's sort of how the world was. What on-demand platforms do, such as Sidekicker, is this process is being made a lot easier, costs are being significantly reduced, you don't have to do any admin on your side. We take care of all that. If you can connect people to amazing businesses, then you can open their doors.

Sally:                Once I've completed my job, I basically fill out a time sheet with the hours I've done and then that's it.

Tom Amos:       We take care of the payment. We give you the protection, the opportunity with RMIT. RMIT is best in class. They've got amazing talented students. Those students are looking for flexible work because they want to focus on their studies and I think that's super exciting. It's just changing the way graduate recruitment can work