Careers in the Australian Defence Forces

The Australian Defence Force offers young people a ‘lifestyle’ career that’s quite different to all other civilian type jobs.

Australia is investing around $100 billion dollars over the next 30 years upgrading and building new ships for the Navy. $40 billion on new surface warships and $50 billion on submarines.

These ships require talented young Australian’s to build, operate and manage sophisticated software and technology systems. The training provided is first class and provides personnel with a career path post ADF service. This issue we explore careers in the ADF.

Defence Force Jobs

http://www.defencejobs.gov.au is a great site for students to explore.

The ADF provides a huge range of jobs across all sectors such as Business, Administration, Education, Combat, Security, Communications, IT, Intelligence, Engineering, Healthcare, Science, Logistics, Hospitality, Trades, Technicians, Support Services, Management and Officer Training.

The ADF employs 57,000 permanent service men and women with a further 23,000 part timers on active reserve. Of the 80,000 employees Army employs 43,000 with Navy and Air Force around 19,000 each.

A good place to start if students aren’t sure which service or job they are best suited to is Job Finder an interactive tool that will match jobs.

Some jobs require you to be a certain age, or have certain qualifications. By providing information about yourself, the ADF can show you jobs that are more relevant to you, your interests and your qualifications.

Defence Recruitment Centre

Individual training of Australian servicemen and women is generally provided by the services in their own training institutions. Each service has its own training organisation to manage this individual training.

Download ADF Resources and Information

Here you can download information about career opportunities across the Navy, Army and Air Force, joining instructions and the recruitment process, the forms you'll need, tests and interviews, education and training, fitness and much more. Click to view and download.