Skillset Senior College Agricultural team take on the Royal Bathurst Show
Months of preparation will all pay off when students from Skillset Senior College present sheep and cattle for the first time at the 2018 Royal Bathurst Show. This weekend, students from the Skillset Senior College Agriculture team will be showing three Corriedale...
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#SkillsetStories: Meet Courtney Hogan NSW Training Awards Trainee of the Year Nominee
Meet Courtney Hogan our nominee for Trainee of the Year for the NSW Training Awards 2018. Skillset is proud to nominate Courtney for Trainee of the Year. During her traineeship, we were extremely impressed with her dedication and enthusiasm to her studies and job....
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Skillset’s Amanda Ferguson is namesake for Women’s Central West Rugby Union Cup
Skillset Workforce are so incredibly proud of our own Regional Manager, Amanda Ferguson! The former Wallaroos train-on squad member has received the “absolute honour” of having this year’s women’s league, in which last year’s Blowes Clothing Cup and GrainCorp Cup have...
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Good News for Youth Unemployment as Pledge250 Reaches Target
Skillset Workforce hits Pledge250 target! The Skillset Workforce Pledge 250 jobs campaign reached its 250th job target last week, coinciding with a recent Brotherhood of St Laurence Report highlighting significant decreases in youth unemployment across the Central...
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Moolarben Coal and Skillset Workforce lend a helping hand in Mudgee
Twenty Mudgee locals kicked off new careers with Moolarben Coal this year, demonstrating Moolarben’s ongoing commitment to the local community through employment and training. Recruited and employed by Skillset Workforce, the new starters are working in a range of...
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Skillset Supports Rotary Youth Driver Awareness Program
Skillset's contribution to RYDA Program. Watch here. Local not-for-profit community based organisation, Skillset has pledged 50% ($3250) of the current Pit Complex fees for the next three years fulfilling Bathurst East Rotary’s needs to continue to run the award...
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Mentor Plus Launched Today
Skillset launched their new support service, Skillset Workforce Mentor Plus, for apprentices and trainees in the Construction and Mining industries across the Central, Western and New England regions of NSW today in Bathurst. On 31 January 2018, the Assistant Minister...
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200th Job Pledged!
Dubbo Regional Council has pledged two new horticulture apprenticeship jobs to take the Skillset Workforce Pledge250 Campaign to the 200 mark. The Pledge250 Jobs Campaign was initiated by Skillset Workforce for the second time in November last year to address high...
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End of a Green Army Era
Last Tuesday marked the last ever Green Army graduation and the last day of active operations with the program for Skillset. It was a day of mixed emotions for all those in attendance- a feeling of happiness in congratulating our highly successful Northern Beaches...
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Additional Support For Apprentices Announced Today
Skillset is delighted to advise that we have been selected by the Australian Government to deliver additional support to apprentices and trainees across central & western NSW and the New England, under the $60m Industry Specialist Mentoring for Australian Apprentices...
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Record Skillset Workforce Apprentice Intake for PJL Group
In a boost to regional jobs and skills PJL Group and Skillset Workforce have partnered to employ a record number of apprentices and trainees for PJL, who started work today in Orange Eighteen people have commenced in a range of roles, with eight undertaking Heavy...
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Skillset Environment – Your Regional Land Partner
Phase 2 of the National Landcare Program - Regional Land Partnerships - opened just prior to Christmas and Skillset Environment is committed to supporting Local Land Services and Landcare with tender submissions to give them the best possible chance of securing...
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Skills4Trade Gets Them Working
Thirty four young people graduated from the Skillset Workforce/ TAFENSW Skills4Trade program across the region last week – with fourteen already securing work as a result of the award winning program. In Bathurst 5 students completed the Land Works Skills4Trade...
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Green Army Lord Howe Finishes
Skillset’s time delivering Green Army on Lord Howe island came to an end on Tuesday 5th December with the final graduation at Old Settlement Beach on the island. Skillset/Campbell Page have delivered 3 very successful Green Army projects on the island...
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100 Jobs in One Month!
The 100th job was pledged last Friday in the Pledg250 job creation campaign being run by Skillset Workforce to help address high youth unemployment in the region. The campaign reached the 100 job milestone, pledged by Bathurst Express Freight, in only one month and...
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Skillset Senior College Celebrates Students at Grad
There was hardly a dry eye in the house yesterday as students were celebrated at the Skillset Senior College Awards and Year 10 Graduation Ceremony. Thirty-two year 10 students graduated from the College, with all but three planning on continuing into Year...
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National win for Donald and Skillset
Donald Dundas, a recently completed Skillset Workforce apprentice, won the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Student of the Year at last Thursday’s 2017 Australian Training Awards in Canberra. The Australian Governments annual event recognises the best of the best...
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Helping L Platers this Christmas
“Having a license is a great help in getting, and getting to, a job” says Skillset Skills and Engagement Manager Sharon Bradley “so it’s important to start building those log book hours and skills required to get P Plates. Also with Christmas approaching is the time...
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