Start Your Career With Confidence

Build the skills you need as a graduate with tools trusted by leading graduate employers.

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What is Graduate Edge?

The professional world is different to school, college and university. It works on completely different rules. The problem is, no-one tells you what they are.

With Graduate Edge, you lean 9 ingredients and 27 principles required to navigate the professional world, and strat your career with confidence.

Whether you’re starting on a graduate programme, or finding your way in entry level roles, Graduate Edge teaches you everything successful professionals wish someone had told them when they started out.

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    Read the Room

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    See the Bigger Picture

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    Play the Long Game

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    Earn Their Trust

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    Build Great Relationships

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    Communicate with Impact

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    Back Yourself

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    Develop Yourself

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    Learn About Yourself

Why Use Graduate Edge?

Understand how the professional world really works with practical actions you can apply right away

Curated from the same graduate training and development courses used by leading graduate employers

Supports all major disciplines, sectors and industries around the world

Created by Development Beyond Learning (DBL) – award-winning and trusted advisor to graduate employers globally

“The habits you build early travel with you and Graduate Edge gives you those habits from day one. It is pragmatic, thought provoking and provides questions, reflections, and actions that help people navigate the world of work.”

Karen Handley

Early Talent Lead, Technology Sector, United Kingdom 

“Graduate Edge is practical, relevant, and accessible, and provides students and graduates with valuable guidance and tools to approach the workplace with greater confidence. I highly recommend Graduate Edge.”

Kelly Pfeffer

Early Talent Lead, Financial Services Sector, Australia 

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the podcast

Hi, I’m Josh Mackenzie, Founder of Graduate Edge, and I love talking to people about their early career stories, learning about their journey and discovering what happened next.

Our handpicked guests dig into the early years of their careers. Not the big successes you read about 20 years later, but what it was really like early on. Their experiences, messy moments, successes, lessons and advice.

Latest episode:

Ep08: Snapshot: Josh Mackenzie on seven lessons from our first seven episodes

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27 principles to navigate
the professional world –
and build a career, your way.

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Graduating is just the beginning.

We’re building practical, story driven courses to bring powerful career principles and valuable skills to life for graduates. Supporting you at each stage of your graduate journey as a student, and throughout the early years of your career as graduate.

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