$500 Tool Rebate Available
$500 tool rebate available for construction apprentices and trainees🔨🔧🧰
From 1 July 2022 the Apprentice Tool Allowance from Construction Training Fund puts $500 back in the pockets of apprentices and trainees.
Today’s Skills; Tomorrow’s Leaders Program
Australia’s top apprentices and trainees are about to embark on an intensive career and leadership program that will help equip them as future leaders.
The National Apprentice Employment Network’s ‘Today’s Skills: Tomorrow’s Leaders’ (TSTL) program brings together 23 outstanding apprentices and trainees, selected from across Australia.
It comprises 20 apprentices and trainees selected by group training organisations, and three finalists from the 2021 Australian Training Awards. (List of participants attached).
All the participants are regarded as emerging leaders in their fields. They are engaged in industries including, business, electrical, engineering, community services, automotive, education, maritime, construction and logistics.
Thousands of apprentices, trainees and employees to benefit from digital skills pilot project
The National Apprentice Employment Network (NAEN) and the Digital Skills Organisation (DSO) today announced the establishment of a pilot program to examine ways to better assess, incorporate and fast-track digital skills in the apprenticeship sector.
At a time when digital skills are becoming increasingly important, the pilot project will enable large numbers of apprentices and trainees, as well as their employers, to assess and improve digital literacy in the workplace.
Under the initiative, DSO will provide access to digital assessment and upskilling tools, and NAEN will facilitate the engagement of member group training organisations (GTOs) who employ apprentices and trainees.
The announcement was made at the NAEN Conference in Hobart today.
Dianne Dayhew, NAEN Chief Executive Officer, said the need for digital literacy and fluency is growing across all industries, and apprentices and trainees are at the forefront of this change.
“We are very excited to be working with the DSO. We think this is the ideal time to collaborate and help the next generation to meet the challenges of the digital landscape.”
Patrick Kidd, the CEO of DSO said, “NAEN has an incredibly broad network that, combined with the right digital upskilling pilot, will provide benefits, not only to individuals but also to their employers through improved business performance.”
A Turbocharged Apprenticeship
To maintain highly specialised turbomachinery equipment, a local team is re-imagining apprenticeships as a path to excellence.
Andrew Woods (second from the left) and colleagues while working on site in Australia.
Andrew is the 2021 AEN WA winner of the Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Apprentice of the Year Award
It takes a team of professionals to guide an apprentice to Field Service Engineer (FSE) standard at Baker Hughes, but Andrew Woods was extraordinary from the outset.
A Traineeship can take you anywhere and set you up for a fantastic and rewarding career
Richard Variakojis was employed by the Apprentice and Traineeship Company (ATC) as a School-Based trainee back in 2010 undertaking a traineeship in Animal Studies (Level 2).
To complete the on the job training for this traineeship, Richard was hosted to the Eagles Heritage and Raptor Wildlife Centre in Margaret River, within the South West of Western Australia.
ATC and Richard’s host employer were so impressed with his attitude and enthusiasm that they nominated him for the Group Training WA School Based Trainee of the year award.
Richard won the 2010 WA award and went on to be runner up on the National stage.
He then completed a further traineeship in Animal Technology (Level 3) while still employed with ATC and attending school. After completing this traineeship and high school, Richard went on to further studies, completing a double major in Zoology and Indigenous History and Knowledge at University.
Richard is currently working as a National Park Ranger for the Murujuga Aboriginal Corporation on the Murujuga National Park, Burrup Peninsula, where he is undertaking fauna, flora and petroglyph surveys.
Murujuga National Park is best known for its dense concentration of rock art, petroglyphs, with some dating back approximately 47,000 years.
Richard is a perfect example of how a simple start in a school-based traineeship can inspire you on to further studies that can lead to a rewarding career.
Pre-apprenticeships – a gateway into your dream career
Pre-apprenticeship is an entry-level training course. They can provide a pathway into the industry of your choice. Pre-apprenticeships are most common in traditional trade industries, such as Electrical, Plumbing and Automotive.
The term pre-traineeship may also be used for non-trade industries, such as Hospitality, and Animal Care and Management.
Support for Parents & Friends
If your are a parent or friend of a child seeking an Apprenticeship or Traineeship, read on to find the support available to you to guide your child in their choice of careers.
Opportunity for hundreds of new apprentices and trainees to be engaged by small and medium sized-businesses in WA
Opportunity for hundreds of new apprentices and trainees to be engaged by small and medium sized-businesses in WA
Group Training Organisations in Western Australia today welcomed the government’s announcement that, if re-elected, it will invest $32.4 million to provide openings for an additional 300 new apprentices and trainees engaged through the group training network.
Premier Mark McGowan announced that the four-year program would enable 300 positions for apprentices and trainees placed with small and medium sized businesses and employed through Group Training Organisations (GTOs).
The Chair of the Apprentice Employment Network WA (AEN WA) Stuart Diepeveen said the initiative will provide a real benefit to smaller employers in helping to build a pipeline of skilled apprentices and trainees.
“It is vitally important that we look to the next generation of young people leaving school, and older workers who are changing jobs and acquiring new skills, who are in demand by employers.
“This program will be a big help to many small and medium sized businesses that want to take on apprentices and trainees and undertake work on state government contracts,” Mr Diepeveen said.
“This is where GTOs come into their own – helping SMEs that may not have previously engaged in the training sector to take on an apprentice or trainee. GTOs handle all the administration, pay the wages and entitlements and provide the mentoring and support that makes a difference to that person completing and gaining a qualification.”
A distinctive feature of group training is that the apprentice or trainee can be returned by the host employer to the GTO if, for example, work dries up, or the need arises for more diverse or different training or workplace experience.
The group training network felt the full brunt of the COVID-induced recession, with hundreds of apprentices and trainees in Western Australia being handed back by host businesses. GTOs maintained apprentices and trainees, paid their wages and entitlements and have placed almost all back into work.
Apprentices and Trainees Vital to Rebuilding Western Australia’s Economy
Apprentices and trainees vital to rebuilding Western Australia’s economy
Western Australia’s post-COVID economic recovery will depend upon a pipeline of new apprentices and trainees with the enthusiasm and skills capable of meeting the needs of a growing and evolving workforce, the Apprentice Employment Network WA (AEN WA) said today.
The network which represents the employers of some 2,000 apprentices and trainees has urged parties at the state election on March 13, to throw their support behind apprentices and trainees, in order to grow the state’s skills base and assist school leavers, as well as mature age workers changing careers.
AEN WA has released its policy blueprint, ‘Restoring and Reinvigorating the Apprenticeship Sector’, with recommendations to help boost apprentice commencements and completions, and assist the group training sector which has been hit hard by the COVID-induced recession.
Group training organisations (GTOs) directly employ apprentices and trainees and place them with ‘host’ businesses. A distinctive feature of GTOs is that apprentices or trainees can be rotated to another host business if, for example, work dries up, or the need arises for more diverse or different training or workplace experience.
Restoring and Reinvigorating the Apprenticeship Sector 2021
Across Australia, the numbers of apprentices and trainees collapsed at the height of the COVID-induced recession, and numbers have only just begun to recover.
The group training network felt the full brunt of the decline, with hundreds of apprentices and trainees in Western Australia being handed back by host businesses. Group Training Organisations (GTO) maintained apprentices and trainees, paid their wages and entitlements and have placed almost all back into work.
However, the longer-term impacts of the economic decline are yet to play out. For the apprenticeship sector to remain strong and serve as a generator of skilled employment, there will need to be strong government intervention and support.
AEN WA is calling on the major political parties at the state election to commit to policies and programs that will support the apprenticeship sector and specifically recognise the work of group training during the pandemic and its place in helping to rebuild businesses and skilled employment during the recovery.