TAS
Disability Sector Sustainable Employment Project
National Disability Services Limited
Employment Region: North and North Western Tasmania
This activity involved facilitating ongoing relationships and frameworks between jobactive providers and disability service providers to support the labour force needs of the disability service sector. This activity also aimed to increase awareness of, and access to, careers in the sector.
Education and Care Sector Good Fit Tool Project
Early Childhood Australia - Tasmania Branch Inc
Employment Region: Hobart and Southern Tasmania
The activity created an Education and Care Sector Good Fit diagnostic tool to assist Employment Service Providers identify individuals receiving services from them who were likely to be a good fit for employment in the education and care sector.
Food Manufacturing Futures
Tasmanian Chamber of Commerce and Industry Limited
Employment Region: Hobart and Southern Tasmania
A pre-employment program that provided employability skills development specific to the food manufacturing sector. Participants had the opportunity to job shadow, standard operating procedure training, with suitable participants being offered employment following completion.
Games Fest - Digital Work is Real
Northern Joblink Limited t/as National Joblink
Employment Region: North and North Western Tasmania
The activity aimed to improve the job-readiness of participants, with a focus on young people who have an interest in online games. The project sought to improve the transferability of participant’s existing skills and connections to technology related industries in the region. It combined blocks of gaming industry themed experiential learning and work preparation training. The activity included two Employability Skills Training courses as well as events with local employers to maximise opportunities for employment, work experience and networking for participants.
Helping Burnie Work into the Future
Business North West
Employment Region: North and North Western Tasmania
This activity was delivered to enable long term unemployed people in the Burnie area to improve motivation, employability and acquire work ready skills. This was a business led program that linked local small and medium business with long-term unemployed people with multiple barriers to employment. The program drew on well-established local relationships and previous work to create change for individuals by facilitating improved connections to local employers and confidence for participants.
HIA Mentoring Program
Housing Industry Association Limited
Employment Region: Hobart and Southern Tasmania
The activity was an industry led, employer mentoring program to support the building and construction sector to recruit and retain participants who experienced barriers to employment.
Lady Gowrie Tasmania Pathway to a Traineeship
Lady Gowrie Tasmania
Employment Region: Hobart and Southern Tasmania
This activity included a pre-employment program tailored to working in the early childhood learning and care sector. At the end of the program, participants completed a two-week work placement, and after successful completion were offered a traineeship with Lady Gowrie Tasmania.
Local Jobs in Food Manufacturing Program
CVGT Australia Limited
Employment Region: Hobart and Southern Tasmania
The intensive 7 week, 3 days per week pre-employment training and work experience initiative prepared participants for employment in the diverse Circular Head food products/primary produce processing sector.
Northwest Regional Workforce Mobilisation Project
Brumby Hill Aboriginal Corporation
Employment Region: North and North Western Tasmania
The activity involved providing intensive ‘wrap around’ support and employment preparatory training to support Indigenous participants from the local community in the North West Coast of Tasmania. The activity assisted participants to obtain work experience and employment with culturally supportive workplaces and included education and tailored post-placement support. The cultural competency of local employers was also improved through their engagement with this activity.
Our Way Home Program
Nayri Niara Pty Ltd
Employment Region: Hobart and Southern Tasmania
The program provided participants with cultural and wellbeing residentials, work-like experience, and accredited project management training over a five-month period. The activity aimed to place a minimum of 10 people into employment. The program also engaged with industry partners in the Aboriginal art, hospitality and tourism sectors, and Aboriginal Elders/Knowledge keepers in the activity co-design.
