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Access Community Employment Services

KEYWORDS: Employment; Place-based Initiatives
Location: Queensland

Access Community Employment Services provides a vacancy filling service to employers and industry and a free job placement program for all jobseekers over the age of 15. The program’s unique ‘place-based’ employer focused model has seen positive results for both job seekers and employers, highlighting the success of this way of operating. Programs run under Access Community Employment Services include: Skilling Queenslanders for Work; The Yarrabilba Exchange; Regional Relocation Services.

Provider: Access Community Services

Employment Pathways

KEYWORDS: Employment
Location: Victoria

The Asylum Seeker Resource Centre (ASRC) supports hundreds of people each year at their Footscray and Dandenong centres to identify transferable skills and experience, map their employment pathways and teach them effective ways to find work. ASRC also runs a job readiness program which partners refugees and people seeking asylum with personal employment advisors to help them prepare for work, apply for suitable jobs and address employment barriers.

Provider: Asylum Seeker Resource Centre

Equity Training Program

KEYWORDS: Employment
Location: Northern Territory

The Northern Territory Government provides an Equity Training Program as part of their Adult Education and Training programs. Incorporated organisations, registered training organisations and schools can apply for an Equity Training Grant for programs to improve training and employment outcomes for disadvantaged people, including refugees, in the Territory.

Provider: Northern Territory Government

Friendly Nation Initiative

KEYWORDS: Employment

The Friendly Nation Initiative is a business-led strategy that seeks to increase employment, mentoring, training, and internship opportunities for refugees and humanitarian migrants. With a particular focus on the special intake of 12,000 Syrian and Iraqi refugees, it recognises that creating pathways to employment is a crucial step in the process of resettling newly arrived refugees. Friendly Nation Initiative works with employers and a network of refugee employment services to find the right people for the right positions and ensure ongoing support for both employees and the employer.

Provider: Migration Council Australia

Given the Chance

KEYWORDS: Employment; Entrepreneurship; Gender
Location: Victoria and National

Given the Chance is a set of programs designed to assist marginalised job seekers into work, support employers to grow and diversify their workforce, and foster social benefit and inclusion in workplace communities. Given the Chance matches employers with potential employees in a professional, personalised and fully supported way. After the success of the initiative in Victoria, Given the Chance is now being extended to select sites nationally to meet the demands of even more employers and job seekers.

Provider:  The Brotherhood of St Laurence 

Jobactive

KEYWORDS: Employment
Location: National

Jobactive is the Australian government’s employment services system, with providers active in over 1700 locations across Australia. Jobactive providers assist job seekers to get and keep a job, and offer employers an end-to-end tailored recruitment service to find and hire staff. Jobactive services are generally available to anyone receiving an income support payment or who has mutual obligation requirements.

Provider: Multiple (see here)

Jobs Victoria Employment Network

KEYWORDS: Employment
Location: Victoria

The Jobs Victoria Employment Network (JVEN) is the Victorian Government’s major activity to help Victorians facing barriers to employment into jobs. Services are delivered by employment specialists who work closely with employers to identify job opportunities and prepare jobseekers for those roles.

Provider: Jobs Victoria

Multicultural Employment Hub

KEYWORDS: Employment
Location: South Australia

The Multicultural Employment Hub assists on-arrival humanitarian clients to understand the requirements of the industrial system and to prepare for finding employment or work experience. Working alongside an employment and training adviser, new arrivals are able to plan individualised long- and short-term employment goals, including having their overseas qualifications recognised and registered. The hub also organises workplace visits and links to work experience for clients who have completed their AMEP hours.

Provider: Australian Migrant Resource Centre

New Australian Internship Program

KEYWORDS: Employment
Location: National

The New Australian Internship Program supports refugees who are currently studying at University or aiming to restart their career. The program supports two groups; the Mid-career Professionals (those refugees with tertiary qualifications and professional work experience who strive to re-establish careers in Australia) and University Students (full-time university students who undertake paid internships during university to link their studies with practical work experience).

Provider: CareerSeekers

ParentsNext

KEYWORDS: Employment; Gender
Location: National

ParentsNext operates nationally, across all non-remote employment regions to help parents of young children (under 6 years old) to plan and prepare for employment. ParentsNext aims to build confidence among parents of young children to apply for and sustain long-term employment, or to complete education and employment courses. It also aims to improve financial awareness and budgeting, and confidence in accessing services.

Provider: Multiple (see here)

Refugee Employment Support Program (RESP)

KEYWORDS: Employment; Language
Location: New South Wales

Refugees Seeking Employment Program (RESP) helps participants develop career plans and link them with employers and education. It fosters English language skills, allows for participants to access mentoring and gain skilled employment as well as undertake education and training courses. It helps with the recognition of overseas qualifications, supports business skills development, links participants with work experience and overcomes transport barriers.

Provider: Training Services NSW

Refugee Talent

KEYWORDS: Employment
Location: National and International

Refugee Talent is an employment platform where companies can hire diverse talent across Australia and internationally. The platform helps refugees to find employment in Australia that matches their experience from their home country. The platform seeks to replace the informal networks that refugees are often missing in a new country and that are important for any job-seeking process.

Provider: Refugee Talent

Women’s Employment into Action (WEIA)

KEYWORDS: Employment; Gender
Location: South Australia

Women’s Employment into Action (WEIA) provides free accredited and non-accredited training, work experience and mentoring to migrant and refugee women. WEIA is a flexible program offering: training, mentoring and work experience during school hours, practical training for women from diverse backgrounds to prepare for work in Australia, support and links to employers, free child care for preschool children during the program and Certificate III in Individual Support and/or employment skills for working in aged, disability care and other areas of work.

Provider: Australian Migrant Resource Centre

Youth Empowerment and Leadership Program

KEYWORDS: Employment; Youth
Location: South Australia

The AMRC engages young participants aged 15-25 years in an array of activities that support their settlement, skills and leadership development in their own communities and the South Australian community. The program also equips them to mentor other newly arrived young people. As part of the program, young people can participate in water safety education, road safety and transport training, bus excursions and SA Youth Parliament.

Provider: Australian Migrant Resource Centre

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