What do the first few weeks of a graduate look like at Leidos?

One of the biggest challenges and biggest changes that people go through is going from full-time study to full-time work, so we make sure to support you in that transition. By the time we give the offers around the end of May or early June, we'll keep in touch with you until the end of the year and early of the next. When you begin the job, there's a lot of engagement opportunities to get to know the team:

• Induction: a 2- to 3-day graduate specific induction where we cover lots of information about who Leidos is and an opportunity for you to meet lots of different people and start that professional skill development
• Go into your teams: become a fully-embedded team member and build relationships
• Mentoring and buddy program
• Monthly grad catch-up and professional skill development

Jarrod's first few weeks in the Leidos grad program:

You pretty much hit the ground running... On the first day, there was a lot of introduction where you meet the people that basically are going to take care of you. A lot of it was spending the day setting up accounts, figuring out if you can log into things, setting up your emails. From there, we pretty much just got stuck into it. Especially my team, where we were mostly grads from the start, they were very adapted bringing in new people and just setting them up with the work that they should get started on. It was all very catered to us and everything was planned around us being grads which made it a lot easier to come in. It is a big adjustment when you're going from study to work and I was quite worried about it, but there's a lot of effort put into that transition and I didn't feel uncomfortable about that at all. Having those grad catch-ups and the professional development meant that we had those milestones going throughout the year to check in and make sure that everything was working on the business and professional front. For me being in the technical space, I got both sides and that was a good chance for me to not only learn the technical side, but learn how to operate inside a business—who to talk to and who runs what. For me that was good to get that background that you don't really get during uni.

Grace's first few weeks in the Leidos grad program:

The transition wasn't something I was worried about because I felt like by the time I started, I knew my team quite well as there were those engagement opportunities prior to starting and the multiple-day induction, which meant that I felt close to the other grads as well. So a very smooth smart and you end up feeling really supported. I felt like I could tackle anything.
 

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