Archives for the tag: talent

Europe, We’re Coming for Your Geeks!

Anyone who follows our blog posts has probably noticed that we like to do things a little differently at Atlassian, including our recruitment. About two years ago we announced the "holiday before you start" program in which we pay new employees to take a vacation before they begin working at Atlassian. Last month, we launched Hack House for Australian Graduates, and opened applications for our US summer internship program. Today, I'm excited to tell you about a new recruiting initiative we're

Continue reading »

Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , ,
Comments (1)

8 automations that improved our HR team’s productivity

  • By jluijke, VP of Talent
  • About
  • On November 29, 2011
I hate manual repetitive tasks that don’t add value to the work of our team. Unfortunately, in HR, there are many. In the past, we'd run around manually adding information on various HR systems, notify IT, update managers on recruitment stats, new hires, and the list goes on and on. That's why we've been working on ways to automate these processes. Unfortunately, HR system providers don’t make it easy for us. The tools are often archaic and allow little to no integration options. However,

Continue reading »

Tags: , , , , ,
Comments (4)

Celebrating 6 months of recruitment and our successful recruiters program

After we caused a stir amongst the recruitment community when in October last year we decided to do things a little differently. The rules were simple. All recruiters were welcome to submit candidates. On our site they could automatically select how many candidates their agency wishes to put forward. The fees reduce if they wished to refer more candidates. The maximum number of candidate referrals was 4. Our challenge to recruiters is pretty straight forward - if you've got awesome candidates

Continue reading »

Tags:
Comments (0)

Atlassian contributes over $750,000 to student scholarships

Atlassian is a big believer in encouraging students to get into the IT industry. We're passionate about developing our community by giving young people the chance to get industry experience and to be mentored. We've been a strong supporter of a number of student initiatives over the years, contributing over $750,000 to date. After completing their studies at UNSW in 2002, our Co-Founders, Mike Cannon-Brookes and Scott Farquhar started Atlassian out of a garage with a $10,000 credit card loan.

Continue reading »

Tags: ,
Comments (0)

Hiring Graduates across the globe

  • By Jade Li, Talent Assistant
  • About News
  • On February 15, 2011
We're fast approaching our 9th anniversary, and we're looking for bright young minds to join us and shape the future of software development. We are looking for the best final year university students or graduates, and have an irresistible new Graduate program to attract you!   From day one, graduates will be working on projects that will be shipped to millions of users...fast! Don't believe me? Hear what our interns and former graduates have to say!   By the way, if

Continue reading »

Tags: , , ,
Comments (0)