ANZ Return to Work Program

Each role is different and requires a different level of skills and experience.

Ideally you will have at least four years of experience, relating to the skills of the role you are applying for, and an interest or passion for financial services.

a. Unpaid work is relevant - make it work for you. Identify the skills that you have enhanced during your time away from the corporate workplace

Even if you have not been doing paid work, you have still been using all sorts of skills that are relevant to work, including budgeting, organising and time management. You may also have developed skills in your time away that you did not have last time you were in a job. These may be skills gained through raising your family, interacting with government agencies, caring for others, community and volunteer work or hobbies. Write down some of the activities you have been doing, identify the skills you have been using doing these activities and how these can be used in the workplace.

These are called transferrable skills. E.g. Self management, being organised / time management skills, communication skills etc.

Some of the skills that you may think about could be:

• Curiosity
• Being open to new experiences and learning
• Seeing what needs to be done and planning how to do it
• Resilient and flexible to adjust to change
• Bringing together a group of people to achieve goals
• Presentation and/or communication skills
• Prioritising tasks and ensuring that they happen
• Financial knowledge (which financial products do you use? How do you use it?
• Listening to other points of view and sharing yours to come to a common understanding
• Ability to build and grow a supportive network of people

b. Identify the skills and experience from your previous employments

Job-specific skills are the ones needed to complete an activity including project management, prioritising tasks, computer programming or record keeping. You may have used these skills in a different industry, but these may also be applicable in the ANZ role. What are the skills that you have developed in your previous roles?

Identify the skills that you think you will need to update and how you think the Return to Work Program could help you to refresh these skills.

ANZ focuses on getting the right person for the job, regardless of age. Make the most out of the experience you have, the work ethic you have developed and your reliability.

One way you can check that you are highlighting your skills and experience is to record yourself answering the two questions below. Record yourself on your phone or computer and listen back to the recording. Take notes as if you were an employer looking to hire you.

a. Why do you think you are the right person for the job?

b. What can you offer, what makes you stand out?

Planning, cooperation, and support from others is important when returning to work. Identify the resources that you already have that can support you and those that you will need to investigate and implement to be able to succeed in a new role.

You may need to set small, easily achievable goals when you first start back at work. As your confidence and knowledge improve, you can revise or build on them.

Think about the hours you will be able to manage and discuss these during the interview process. If successful, you can work with your line manager to assess any necessary changes you might need.

Think about what kinds of support you will need to return to work. What will work best for you to ensure that you can deliver your best in the role? Think about whether you want:

• full-time or part-time work
• fixed hours per day versus flexible hours per day

Most of all,

Take the first step

The ANZ Return to Work Program is here to help you re-ignite your career, but we can only do that if you prepare and tell us what you want and how we can support you to get there.

Technology is key to ANZ’s purpose – we’re helping the bank shape a world where people and communities thrive. We work to make it easy for customers to bank with us securely and provide our colleagues with the best tools.

We are innovators, engineers, architects, security specialists, marketers and much, much more. Working together as a Great. Technical. Team.

In Technology we have Divisional and Enterprise domains and a Business Services Centre of Excellence.

Divisional Domains

The domains in this group deliver end-to-end, world-class products and services to our retail, corporate and commercial, and global institutional customers across Australia, New Zealand and across our other markets.

Enterprise Domains

The domains in this group are responsible for the employee experience, cloud, data and infrastructure as a service, security, risk and business management, service management, architecture and workforce strategy.

Business Services Centre of Excellence

This Centre of Excellence is shifting ANZ to a services led organisation and helps to deliver value by optimising operations.

Email returntowork@anz.com for further information. We will get back to you within five business days.