Welcome to the Victorian Electoral Commission. This guide will assist you to register for work at elections.

As you can see on the screen, we're on the Victorian Electoral Commission website home page.

Click on ‘Work at elections’. Click on ‘I want to register for work’, read through the information, and as you scroll down you'll see the red ‘Register for work at elections’ button. When you hover over it, it turns blue.

Click on ‘Register for work at elections’. The following screen will appear. Hover over ‘Election staff’ and you'll see it will turn blue. Click on ‘Election staff’ and the following screen appears.

Click on the green ‘Apply’ button.

As you're not already registered, you will need to register for recruitment to create a new account. Read through the privacy statement information.

Click on ‘Privacy at the VEC’ and read through the information on this screen.

Once you're comfortable with the information, go back to the previous tab, and accept and continue. Now you'll be able to create your account by entering your details.

Enter your email address, create a password, enter your first name, your last name, your mobile phone number, then answer the questions.

Once you've completed filling out the questions click on ‘Continue’. When you click on ‘Continue’ this screen will appear: ‘Sign up successful.’

Please note though at this stage your registration is not complete. You will need to activate your account now using the confirmation link in the email sent to the email address you provided.

If you have not received this message, check your junk or spam folder. Once you have gone to your email account and found the email that was generated to activate your account, click on the link that activates your account.

Once your account is activated you will be taken to this screen. There are 4 tabs across the top. The first one is the ‘Overview’ tab.

Next you will click on the ‘Contact details’ tab and complete all the further information. Once you have completed all of the information on the contact details tab, click on ‘Save’.

Next you will move across to the ‘Questionnaire’ tab. Here you'll need to complete all of the questions. Once you have completed all of the questions, scroll down to the bottom and click on ‘Save’.

Once you have completed the questionnaire, move to the next tab, ‘Submit application’. On this tab you can see that your application is still in draft, so you do one final step to submit your application. Click on ‘Submit’.

As you will see the application has been saved, and your application will be reviewed, and you will be contacted in due course.

Thank you.

0:06 - Tell us about your first job.

0:08 - Wait, do I go?

0:09 - A bit of a weird one

0:10 My most recent job, I was a comedy writer

0:13 for a Mercedes-branded video game.

0:16 - My third job which I still have now is at Salsas.

0:19 - I was coaching soccer, so under-14 girls.

0:22 - The thrill of when I give the people their burrito,>

0:25 they just smile.

0:27 I love seeing the smile on people's faces

0:28 when they receive the food.

0:30 - Yeah, there's not much that makes you happier than-

0:33 - A nice burrito, yeah.

0:37 - Why did you want to work for the electoral commission?

0:40 - I wouldn't say that I 100% wanted to work for it,

0:42 but I went to an early voting centre which you worked at,

0:47 'cause you worked at an early voting centre.

0:49 And then this lady was handing out little sheets asking

0:51 if people wanted to work, and it said no experience required

0:54 and you'll work with young people.

0:56 So I'm just, oh yeah, why not?

0:58 - I always wanted to have a career when I was older

1:01 in like the legal, political field, so I don't know,

1:04 I was talking to a lot of people and they said kids

1:06 that have the Victorian Electoral Commission

1:09 on their resume, it shows that even from an young age

1:12 they were interested and I think

1:13 that's probably the first reason I sort of

1:15 said I'll do this.

1:16 - I remember the morning, no, the night

1:20 before I was going to start when I was 18, the first time

1:24 I was so nervous 'cause I didn't really have a shirt

1:26 that I felt was office-y enough.

1:28 You know I never worked in an office, I didn't know,

1:31 I'd only seen Ricky Gervais.

1:33 I didn't know what to expect and then I rocked up

1:37 and everyone's just, you know,

1:38 and I went oh, okay, this is a lot more relaxed,

1:41 and yeah, a much more relaxing environment than I expected.

1:46 - [Beth] So my role at the Electoral Commission was working

1:48 in the early voting centres.

1:49 We would issue ballot papers, direct them where to vote,

1:55 direct them where the ballot box was, help them

1:58 with any sort of more complicated issues such as

2:00 if their name wasn't coming up on the electoral roll

2:03 or if they moved address, we basically covered everything

2:06 bar counting the votes ourselves.

2:08 - So I had a new role and that was taking surveys

2:13 as people were exiting the area.

2:16 - Like their experience at the voting,

2:18 like if they were happy with the service or the timing,

2:21 everything about the voting really, yeah.

2:23 - It wasn't hard to understand what to do.

2:24 I think you're a bit intimidated at the start

2:27 'cause it's like, for me personally, it felt like

2:29 my first real job, if that makes sense.

2:32 - For this, it's just good for people

2:34 that don't have any experience for this,

2:35 just you can hop straight into it.

2:38 It's like on the job training so you get paid

2:40 to do the training and it's like all in the one day,

2:42 it's just like really easy and it's a really big part

2:45 especially to do with the election,

2:47 like the election is really important.

2:48 - There's something really gratifying about, yeah,

2:51 especially when I was 18, you come into a work environment

2:54 where the majority of people at the time were probably

2:57 twice my age or older and yet I was treated as a peer

3:02 and I was given a level of respect and responsibility

3:07 that I was hoping for.

3:09 - Someone came up to me and was like here's a job you can do

3:11 that you don't need 10 years experience to do,

3:14 but you'll be treated like an equal as like, you know,

3:17 just a member of society who's helping, you know,

3:20 - [Rikki] Like the community. - [Beth] the community,

3:21 helping the community and getting paid for it.

3:23 - The VEC has managed to foster a culture in which everyone

3:28 really wants to help each other out,

3:30 That there are people in their sixties who don't really

3:32 know how to use computers and hey, I was born in the '90s,

3:37 I can manage that for them,

3:40 but I felt like I imparted some, like

3:44 Gen Y minutia onto these baby boomers, you know?

3:49 - Last one.

3:51 Why is this a good role for young people?

3:55 (laughter)

3:56 - I believe in having a really diverse resume.

3:58 - Yeah.

3:59 - I think it's good to have different experiences

4:02 in different fields. - Yeah, a variety.

4:04 - The money.

4:06 - The money, it's just-- - The fat stacks, you know.

4:09 - It's not volunteer work.

4:10 - The money's really good.

4:12 - The money's quite good. - Yeah,

4:13 I was happy with that.

4:14 - It's the most flexible job

4:16 that I've ever had the experience to do.

4:21 - 'Cause it's more casual 'cause obviously there's not

4:23 an election everyday.

4:25 It's like you can still have other jobs as well.

4:27 It's not like that's your one job, that's what your doing,

4:29 you can still, you can have the flexibility with it,

4:32 it's not just.

4:33 - And like when I first did it, I heard through a friend

4:36 and they put my name up for it, but I didn't know

4:38 how to get into it initially either,

4:39 but they want you on the system.

4:41 - It was easy to apply. - They can contact you again,

4:43 and be like hey do you want to work?

4:46 - And that's a wrap.

4:47 (clapping)

4:53 Thank you guys.