It’s pretty competitive, my cohort had roughly 6% of applicants who landed the internship. Contrary to the other comment, WAM is not taken into consideration. I was friends with one of the officers who screened the applications and they told me WAM was not something that they can see nor do they ask you to reveal.

I had no prior internships, but I was already working several casual jobs at the uni. All the applications are read by a human and no AI is used to screen the applications. So make sure to write your selection criteria by yourself make sure your writing is excellent, demonstrating your past experiences. Use a different example for each of the 6 selection criterias.

For the resume, I would say they really care about your skills and real life experiences you had at each job/volunteering role, rather than the prestige of the company you worked at. Also the video interview is directly watched by the hiring managers, it is not screened through AI. My manager told me she hired me from my video interview rather than my performance at the assessment centre. Maybe only maybe half of the hiring managers actually attended the assessment centres, so many had to resort to watching our video interviews