The Skills & Thrills Parent Webinar
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  • August 26th, 2022

To celebrate National Skills Week, SkillsOne hosted a Q&A Skills Panel for parents or students to call in to ask questions. This allowed parents or students to ask any questions they may have around vocational education, training and career pathways. Panelists:  Brian Wexham, Chief Executive Officer- SkillsOne Television and Founder- National Skills Week Demmi  Paris...

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National Skills Week 2022 Snapshots
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  • August 24th, 2022

NCVER once again supports Australia’s National Skills Week, an annual campaign focused on promoting Australia’s vocational education and training (VET) sector. This year’s theme is A Universe of Skills: Go Beyond Your Imagination, highlighting VET’s diversity, and the possible career pathways it offers given Australia’s emerging skills needs and industry trends. Read on to check out our...

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Live stream Launch of National Skills Week 2022
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  • August 23rd, 2022

National Skills Week is here! The week kicked off with our National Launch happening in Melbourne, hosted and catered by talented students from William Angliss Institute. The event featured a keynote speech by Dr Daniel Mulino MP, opening remarks from The Hon. Gayle Tierney MP and an address by National Skills Week Chairman, Brian Wexham. Watch the livestream.

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Generating skills for renewable energy industries
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  • August 23rd, 2022

Research and development projects are underway in a range of renewable energy industries and these will offer job opportunities in the years ahead. TAFE SA is working with industry to identify current and future training requirements and have representatives working with several industry research groups including the Heavy Industry Low-Carbon Transition Cooperative Research Centre (HILT...

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Manufacturing Skills Forum highlights the need for collaboration and a systematic approach to address workforce challenges
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  • August 23rd, 2022

On 17 August 2022, IBSA Group brought manufacturers, union leaders, peak bodies and training providers together at their Manufacturing Skills Forum to share opinions and insights on the strategies needed to address the skills needs of the manufacturing sector, both nationally and internationally. The Manufacturing Skills Forum highlighted the need for a collaborative and systematic...

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Soft Skills for ‘Hard’ Trades
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  • August 23rd, 2022

Soft skills are touted as some of the most essential tools a worker in the modern age can have up their sleeve. They’re all the skills and talents that aren’t technical, physical, tangible things – it’s good communication, empathy for your fellow people, turning up to work on time. Usually summed up as having a...

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Jobs in the mines are not what you think
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  • August 22nd, 2022

Author: Cara Jenkin   Think mining jobs and most people will imagine a man covered in black coal dust while wearing a hard hat. A job in the mining industry today could not be further from that image – especially as coal is not even one of Australia’s top three mined products. In the future,...

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Clean, renewable energy is creating jobs in Australia
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  • August 19th, 2022

Author: Cara Jenkin   One of the world’s biggest crises today is tackling climate change and reducing emissions, but out of the bad news comes good things for those looking for a sustainable career. The clean energy industry in Australia is going from strength to strength, with more than 100,000 new jobs said to be...

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Retail Industry Skills Forecast Report
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  • August 18th, 2022

Retail is a significant industry for Australia, representing the second largest employing industry, with a workforce size of approximately 1.3 million. Presently, the retail sector are faced with significant opportunities, as well as critical challenges. Check out SkillsIq’s Industry Skills Forecast for all the latest details on the future of the industry. Read the full...

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National Skills Week Fact Sheet
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  • August 16th, 2022

National Skills Week is in its 12th year and is identified as an event of national significance by the Federal Government to create awareness of VET. Despite the Vocational Education and Training (VET) sector continuing to produce exceptional education and employment results for its graduates, pathways and the diversity of careers are not widely understood....

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The skills, jobs and careers of the future that do not yet exist
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  • August 16th, 2022

Author: Cara Jenkin   We all know that computers and automation will play a big role in the jobs of tomorrow. But the future is not as computerised as it may seem. For each job or task taken over by a computer, automation or artificial intelligence, workers will be needed to operate the computer or...

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The Benefits of Apprenticeships and Traineeships
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  • August 13th, 2022

If you’re in year 10, 11 or 12, you might be sick of hearing career advice coming at you from all sides. We get it! Everyone’s got their opinions and they’ve just got to tell you about it. Far be it for us to tell you what to do. We’re just gonna lay out some...

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Digital skills lead the way for careers of the future
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  • August 12th, 2022

Author: Cara Jenkin   From TikTok to Netflix, autonomous cars to surgical robots – technology is playing an increasingly important role in our lives. Behind every video shared on social media, and computerised medical tool that helps us live longer and healthier lives, is a worker with the digital skills to create it. The digital...

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Energise your career: the enormous job opportunities in clean energy
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  • August 10th, 2022

As part of National Skills Week the Clean Energy Council are running a forum on the enormous job opportunities available in clean energy. Over the next 30 years, a vast number of new wind and solar farms, batteries, rooftop solar installations, and hydro projects will need to be built to meet Australia’s growing demand for...

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Human Services Job Boom!
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  • August 8th, 2022

Australia’s Human Services sector needs diverse, skilled, values-driven and adaptable workers – now and in the future. Findings from the latest Human Services Sector Organisation (HSSO) report have revealed the changing nature of individuals, and their demand for more personalised care and support, the shifting market forces of an ageing population and the need for...

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Manufacturing Skills Forum
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  • August 6th, 2022

Save the date this August 17th for IBSA Group’s Manufacturing Skills Forum. The Australian manufacturing sector is facing a skills crisis that threatens to hold back manufacturing growth and sovereign capability. This forum discusses learnings and insights from around the world to tangibly enable industry, governments and stakeholders to progress the skills debate and realise the...

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