ICareer - Career Connections

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Worker’s Name: Nathan

Organisation/Service/Project:  ICareer

Telephone/Email: 9773-4933 or icareer@careerconnections.net.au or www.careerconnections.net.au

Initiative/Project: the ICareer program is a free employment program that works with, prepares and supports recent school leavers to gain lasting employment or to engage in further education and training.

Participants will have access to a range of support including career mapping and planning, work readiness and employability skills training while being supported and guided by CBCC staff to achieve their employment and career goals.

• Employment Events/Expos:

What support and training ICareer provide?

-       Resume preparation and writing

-       Cover letter development

-       Transition planning

-       Discovering hidden job market

-       Job interview preparation and techniques

-       Reverse marketing assistance

-       Brokering employment opportunities

-       Post placement support

Who is CBCC? (Career Connections)

We are a Canterbury-Bankstown non-for-profit organisation recently funded to deliver the ICareer program. CBCC has successfully provided a range of education, transition and employment related programs for the Canterbury Bankstown region for more than 12 years.

To find out more about this free program or if you are a young person that would like to be part of this program contact us (contact details are above-mentioned)

Bankstown TAFE - Community Services Courses - Update

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Worker’s Name: Anne Maley

Organisation/Service/Project: Bankstown TAFE

Telephone/Email:  02 9780 5726 |E anne.maley@tafensw.edu.au

Initiative/Project: TAFE Courses 2014 Community Services

 

Courses and Training – Information sessions:

EXISTING WORKERS

Thursday, 14 November, 2013 5:00pm Room C113 $850 Commercial Fee

**Flexible Delivery** - 16 weeks

• Certificate IV Aged Care
• Certificate IV Home And Community Care

 

2014 Course Information Sessions – Bankstown TAFE Community Services

Tuesday, 12 November, 2013 10:00am Room C238 $1514 Enrolment Fee or $106 Concession

Full Time Day – 24 weeks - You must hold the equivalent of a Cert III in Community Services, Aged Care, Disability, HACC, Children’s Services or related course**

· Diploma Community Services – 3 days per week Joanne Hodge Tel: 9780 5715

· Diploma Counselling – 2 days per week Cindy Gilbert Tel: 9780 5658

Thursday, 14 November, 2013 $419 Enrolment Fee or $106 Concession

**Full Time Day** - 16 weeks

· Certificate III Community Services – 3 days per week 10:00am Room C238

Ilona Mezedi Tel: 9780 5723

· Certificate III Home And Community Care 10:00am Room C113

Irene Swyer Tel: 9780 5536

· Certificate III Aged Care 10:30am or 6:00pm Room EG08

Irene Swyer Tel: 9780 5536

· Certificate III Disability 12:00pm Room C238

Anne Maley Tel: 9780 5726

Existing Workers

Thursday, 14 November, 2013 5:30pm Room C238 $1 800 Commercial Fee VET FEE HELP AVAILABLE

Flexible Delivery** - 16 weeks

· Diploma Counselling Cindy Gilbert Tel: 9780 5658

· Diploma Community Services Joanne Hodge Tel: 9780 5715

· Diploma Community Services (Case Management) Cindy Gilbert Tel: 9780 5658

If you miss the Information Sessions please ring the contact person and they can discuss the course with you.

 

Refugee Enterprise Facilitation Project

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Worker’s Name:                                Dina Petrakis and Rita Wilson

Organisation/Service/Project:        Settlement Services International

Telephone/Email:                            dpetrakis@ssi.org.au or rwilson@ssi.org.au

Initiative/Project:                               Refugee Enterprise Facilitation Project

 

The Enterprise Facilitation Project is a new and exciting business start-up initiative funded by SSI.  The project aims to draw out the entrepreneurs from among our refugee and asylum seeker clients who have work rights.

 

Any client with a right to work and who wants to either, start a new business or expand / improve an existing business is eligible to access the service.

 

The project has two Enterprise Facilitators, Dina Petrakis and Rita Wilson. They assist clients to build their capacity to start a business and link them to networks that can tap into the skills needed to make a successful business model.

 

The project does not provide funding.

 

There are five key elements to the Enterprise Facilitation Project. The project is:

 

 free

 confidential

 ongoing

 mobile

 supportive

 

Because it’s important that potential entrepreneurs feel confident in sharing their business idea, contact with the Enterprise Facilitator must be made by the client.

 

 

 

Bankstown TAFE - Community Services Courses 2014

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Worker’s Name: Anne Maley

Organisation/Service/Project: Bankstown TAFE

Telephone/Email:  02 9780 5726 |E anne.maley@tafensw.edu.au

Initiative/Project: TAFE Courses 2014 Community Services

Courses and Training:

2014 Course Information Sessions – Bankstown TAFE Community Services

Tuesday, 12 November, 2013 10:00am Room C238 $1514 Enrolment Fee or $106 Concession

Full Time Day – 24 weeks - You must hold the equivalent of a Cert III in Community Services, Aged Care, Disability, HACC, Children’s Services or related course**

· Diploma Community Services – 3 days per week Joanne Hodge Tel: 9780 5715

· Diploma Counselling – 2 days per week Cindy Gilbert Tel: 9780 5658

Thursday, 14 November, 2013 $419 Enrolment Fee or $106 Concession

**Full Time Day** - 16 weeks

· Certificate III Community Services – 3 days per week 10:00am Room C238

Ilona Mezedi Tel: 9780 5723

· Certificate III Home And Community Care 10:00am Room C113

Irene Swyer Tel: 9780 5536

· Certificate III Aged Care 10:30am or 6:00pm Room EG08

Irene Swyer Tel: 9780 5536

· Certificate III Disability 12:00pm Room C238

Anne Maley Tel: 9780 5726

Existing Workers

Thursday, 14 November, 2013 5:30pm Room C238 $1 800 Commercial Fee VET FEE HELP AVAILABLE

Flexible Delivery** - 16 weeks

· Diploma Counselling Cindy Gilbert Tel: 9780 5658

· Diploma Community Services Joanne Hodge Tel: 9780 5715

· Diploma Community Services (Case Management) Cindy Gilbert Tel: 9780 5658

If you miss the Information Sessions please ring the contact person and they can discuss the course with you.

 

Migrant Skills Recognition Service - NSW

Dear member of the working party - I have recently attended an information session about this pilot project in NSW. It aims to assess trade skills recognition of newly arrived migrants. I included some notes and contact details.

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Worker’s Name: Michelle Lucas

Organisation/Service/Project: Migrant Skills Recognition Service

Telephone/Email: 1300133488 (application)

                                    (03) 9655-4801

                                    msrs@vetassess.com.au

                                    sarahg@vetassess.com.au (general)

                                    robynb@vetassess.com.au (for applicants)

Website: http//msrs.vetassess.com.au

Initiative/Project: VETASSESS

 

• Skills/Qualifications Recognition-Pathways:

Migrant Skills Recognition Service (Michelle Lucas)

·         This project is funded by the Commonwealth. VETASSESS is funded by the Trade Recognition Australia

·         Pilot project: the project does not cover not skilled migrants, the project is finishing in June 2014 and take migrants through a skills assessment

Eligibility:

·         Right to work

·         Trade background

·         Basic English language skills

·         Residents in NSW, QL and VIC

·         Not part of licences issues

·         Free skills assessment process

Example of evidence:

·         Resume, training records, employer statements, position descriptions, industry memberships, tax records, pay slips, videos, photos, customer testimonials, supplier invoices. 

Demonstration: work in the are before and have the skills and knowledge

Next Step:

·         Demonstrate skills – to be seen

·         Do practical assessment (Western Sydney Institute TAFE)

Type of Assessment:

·         Technical interview: go through typical scenarios, 3 to 4 hours, conducted using web technology

·         Practical  assessment: 5 to 7 hours, complete tasks and applicant needs require safety standards

English Coversation Groups in Bankstown

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Organisation/Service/Project: Bankstown City Library

Initiative/Project: English Classes in Bankstown

 

• English classes/conversation group:

English Conversation classes:

a)    St Paul’s Anglican Church

461 Chapel Road Bankstown (across the road near ALDI’s)

Telephone: 0439951571- Mondays 10 am to 12 pm and Mondays 7 pm to 9 pm

b)    Uniting Church

72 Kitchener Parade Bankstown (behind ALDI’s)

Telephone: 97901810 – Thursday 10 am – 12 pm (pay for tea and coffee)

c)    BAMN – Bankstown Area Multicultural Network

Telephone: 97962235

Level 5 Compass Centre – 83-99 North Terrace Bankstown

d)    Bankstown City Library – 62 The Mall

Telephone 97079730 – website: www.bankstown.nsw.gov.au/library

Bankstown – Classes held periodically – please call 97079730 for more information

 

Bankstown Change Makers Program 2014

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Worker’s Name: Jessie Williams

Organisation/Service/Project:  School for Social Entrepreneurs

Telephone/Email: Jessie@sse.org.au                

Initiative/Project Bankstown Change Makers Program 2014

 

• Employment/Social Enterprise:

 

The Bankstown Change Makers Program provides a unique opportunity for up to 20 individuals to gain the skills, confidence and networks to bring an idea for a social or environmental venture to life in the Bankstown community. For further information visit the weblink:

 

http://www.the-sse.org/schools/24/australia/256/bankstown-change-makers