An evaluation of the operation of Job Network in the first three years of the Active Participation Model (APM). It shows the APM increased net employment impacts and commencement rates for Intensive Support job search training and customised assistance. It also saw a reduction in the costs per employment outcome and employment outcomes under the...

A report on the appropriateness of current services, provider incentives and government administration of Job Network with respect to assisting disadvantaged job seekers. According to the report current Job Network arrangements do not meet the changing needs of increasingly disadvantaged job seekers and an urgent overhaul is needed if unemployed Australians are to look forward...

This paper provide the first ever baseline of data on the job search behaviour of Indigenous job seekers and how it compares to the job search of non-Indigenous job seekers, with clear differences between these groups. Indigenous Australians rely disproportionately on friends and relatives as a source of information about jobs, although their networks tend...

This report examines Centrelink breaching trends for the past three years and the incidence of Job Network participation reporting. While there has been a relative decline in the rate of Centrelink breaching over the past three years, the submission of Job Network participation reports has continued to increase. Yet the vast majority of these reports...

Over 1997-98 the Commonwealth Employment Service and its related agencies and labour market programs were terminated, with employment assistance services instead being delivered through a collection of for profit and community-based providers (the Job Network). The first contract with these providers came in at May 1998, the second early 2000, and the third contract commenced...