looking forward to training

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looking forward to training
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John Jessop General Manager Albe Hooper Manager
Training Services
Southern Training, Employment, and Placement
Solutions Inc. TRAINING SOLUTIONS DIVISION
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SESSION OUTLINE

• Setting the scene
• Introduce the topic
• The STEPS experience to date
• Some key features of this approach
• Setting up for pre-employment training
• The money
• Getting good at outcomes

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Introducing the topicthe labour market

• UE rate at 5.6 - available labour is short
• In Tassie 80 are LTU with multiple barriers
• Governments responding to skill shortages
• 140,000 tradies retire only 40,000 in training
• NZ at 3.0 UE, many parts of Australia are there
• The roping in of new workers with few skills

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Introducing the topicthe JN business

• A reducing business
• More challenging job seekers the risk of
  creaming
• Reducing funding options the after effect of
  churning
• Risk of a subsidy approach long term jobs are
  not there
• Pressure to find employment partnerships
• The opportunities will be in training and
  employment

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A pro-active approach to the predominant group

• we can assist more disadvantaged job seekers
  into work through training that is
• more enterprising and linked to employers
• designed to be developmental
• focused on employability and establishing
  pathways to employment
• articulated into New Apprenticeships

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enterprising and linked

• An Enterprise Learning approach is
• The learning is cooperative in approach
• It is experiential in real work place
  environments
• Trainees own the training
• There is time for reflection
• Linked to employers
• Involved from the start
• Run the Retail course in the shopping mall
• As part of their recruitment strategy
• Through work experience
• Followed up and linked to New Apprenticeships

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designed to be developmental

• Focus on building self esteem
• Chance to get back on ones feet
• Team work and key competencies built in
• Exposure to real workplaces and work standards
• Develops skills that can be used immediately
• Focus on aptitude

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focused on employability and establishing
pathways to employment

• Courses are not about education
• Articulates well with this focus in ESC4
• Rarely issue a full certificate, do get some
  units
• Content based on developing good entry level
  capacity (skills and knowledge)
• ACCI survey of 6000 employers talk about
  employability skills
• Employers involved, linked to recruitment, smart
  ways to access equipment and premises, strong
  acceptance.

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articulated into New Apprenticeships

• The TC gives key units and underpinning knowledge
• Allows completion of the Q on-the-job and reduces
  the training time required
• Can reduce a 3 year pathway to 1 year if combined
  with an good TP
• Locks in the outcome
• Ensures an acceptable industrial framework
• Can use NTW, especially if reduced to I year
• Brings in the NA incentives
• ISCa clients fully re-eligible for NAs
• Brings additional income and a post support
  system as the RTO for the NAs

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the STEPS experience to dateretailcommunity
servicesconstructionPort Arthur
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some key features

• Linkages to employers
• Education verses job preparation
• Classroom verses work place
• Assessment verses learning
• Training verses development
• Preparation for work

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some key features

• Winning the job seeker over
• Pro-active recruitment
• Assistance is gaining a job
• Work experience
• Linking the jobs to New Apprenticeships

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setting up for pre-employment training

• Realise who the customer is
• Assuming you are an RTO
• If you are not an RTO then you might have to
  consider partnering or registering as an RTO
• Benefits if you are a JNM or have a relationship.

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setting up for pre-employment training

• Maximising flexibility
• Delivering a per person capacity
• Using technology
• Using community/business resources
• R and D
• We can be brought

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setting up for pre-employment training

• Start with the needs and capacities
• What is happening
• Decide what Courses to run
• Put together a Training Calendar
• Implement the pre-employment training program
  come and see us

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the money

• With the JSkA
• Selling to other JNMs who are not training
• Share between JNMs
• Other sources of funds
• Employers and employer funds
• Competitive bids
• Special funding (equity)
• VET funds
• JNM outcome fees

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Getting good at outcomes

• How we went last year
• How does this compare
• The JNM EC is the customer
• Lock in employers
• Improving your capacity to shift people

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TRAINING SOLUTIONS DIVISION Level 3 86 Murray St
Hobart 03 6224 5700 www.stepstas.com.au/training