What is the Job Ready Program?
The Job Ready Program is a Job Placement Program where the goal is to assist you into employment as quickly as possible.
The program assists you to find work by improving your employability skills followed by a period of intensive job placement focused activity and support. We build your skills and confidence through knowledge, support and experience. We market you to employers and teach you how to make things happen for yourself. Check out the video testimonials and read the testimonials of job seekers who have participated in the program to learn more.
It runs for a total of 3 weeks, Monday to Friday full time with an additional 5 weeks of ongoing support on a part time basis. We are flexible to allow for those with caring responsibilities.
What the program delivers:
- Employability skills development.
- Intensive employer engagement activity.
- Confidence building.
- Enhanced self-promotion & marketing skills.
- Creates awareness of new skills.
- And most importantly, actively connects job seekers with employers.
If you’re registered with a Jobactive provider and would like to be part of the Job Ready program, register your details with us and we will be in touch.
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Results:
To date, on average: 46% of job seekers who have started the program had been unemployed for more than 1 year.
Over 60% of active job seekers secured employment within the 8-week duration of the program.
We asked job seekers what they thought of the program:
- 85% Felt more motivated to find a job.
- 82% Are now more confident to approach employers
- 82% Said they now have stronger job search knowledge and skills
- 84% Would recommend the program to other job seekers.
- 77% Felt more likely to find work in the next two months.