Employment services
Guide
Australian blueprint for career development
This guide describes a framework that identifies the knowledge, skills and attitudes people need to effectively manage their careers. It can be used by individuals, career development practitioners and others providing support for people's career development.
Position paper
Restoring full employment: policies for the Jobs and Skills Summit
ACOSS has released its proposals to restore full employment in Australia for this week’s Jobs and Skills Summit, including a bold plan to reform employment assistance for people unemployed long-term.
Evaluation
Mentoring unemployed young adults to dream bigger and break down the steps to reach their goals: process evaluation of the Mentoring 2 Work Project
Youth unemployment is a serious social problem. The impact of this can be severe and long-lasting and can have significant effects on young people’s health and wellbeing. This evaluation demonstrates that the M2W Program was designed and implemented following mentoring best practice guidelines in a way that was young adult-centred, flexible and accommodating of this...
Report
Jobactive – integrity of payments to employment service providers
The objective of this audit was to assess the effectiveness of the Department of Education, Skills and Employment in managing the integrity of payments to employment service providers.
Evaluation
Utilising soft skills training to enhance work readiness
This evaluation was of a behavioral insights driven soft skills training program designed to maintain and build the psychological work readiness of highly disadvantaged job seekers. The evaluation found the training to be highly effective and made a number of recommendations to inform future programs.