Graduates & Students

You’ll focus on:

• Our strategy, value and behaviours
• Building networks and relationships with team mates, leaders and technical experts
• Resilience and emotional awareness, caring for yourself and others, connecting effectively with a diverse range of people
• Our value chain and expertise of our commercial, technical and functional groups

One-on-one coaching

Practical support

You’ll have the opportunity to work one-on-one with an experienced external coach who will give you practical support and tools to help you achieve your personal and career goals.

Gamified leadership simulation

A safe place to learn

Through game-based learning, you can practice the skills leaders use every day. As part of the simulation, you’ll have the opportunity to lead a virtual team and set objectives, provide feedback and motivate the team.

"Grad Talks"

Insights from our leaders

Starting a new role in a large and complex organisation like ours can be overwhelming. Through our grad talks, you’ll get to hear from leaders first-hand about their own experience at Rio Tinto, and see our strategy, values and projects in action.

Mine to market showcase

From the ground to the end product

Subject matter experts from across the business deliver interactive sessions on key disciplines like closure, automation, orebody knowledge, processing, tailings, water and more.

You’ll focus on:

• Collaborating with others, sharing ideas, innovating and developing new ways of working
• Building curiosity, having an open learning mindset, adapting to change and being open to new and diverse ideas
• Creating solutions to real-life challenges based on the United Nations’ 17 Sustainable Development Goals
• Developing creative problem-solving skills
• Being courageous, thinking and acting strategically, learning how to anticipate change and seize opportunity

"Grad Talks"

Spark your imagination

Hear from futurists and external thought leaders on topics like globalisation, technology and innovation and creativity. These offer a chance to gain new perspectives from external thought leaders who will challenge your thinking, inspire you to look at things in a different way, and share leading practices from a variety of industries.

Future skills masterclasses

A learning experience like no other

Work with external experts to learn new tools, methodologies and strategies to help you innovate and collaborate to create the best ideas and solutions. Then you can put what you’ve learned into action as part of the innovation project.

Innovation project

Deliver real-life impacts

Whatever your passion – tackling climate change, automation, or creating value from waste – this is your opportunity to be creative and propose solutions to change the way we work – now and in the future. Work with other graduates using what your learned in our masterclasses to bring your ideas to life.

Graduate festival

Pitch your idea

You and your team will pitch your final innovation project to a panel of internal senior leaders and experts. It’s your opportunity to demonstrate what you can bring to our business with your fresh and innovative thinking. Your idea could even be adopted by the business!

There are a range of resources available to you throughout the two-year program:

Learning resources

Access to world-class digital learning resources via LinkedIn Learning and our Graduate Insights.

Networking

Collaborate with fellow grads via the Graduate Yammer group, Graduate Champions network or through our Coffee Roulette program, where you can grab a (virtual) coffee with people from all around our business.

Mentoring and job-shadowing opportunities

There are opportunities to connect with subject matter experts to help you grow your network and learn new skills and knowledge.

Technical resources

In addition to learning on-the-job, you can also access online courses, webinars and tap into our internal technical expert networks to deepen your technical knowledge.