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AEN Newsletter - 8th March 2024
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Vic Careers & Employment Expo
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SAVE THE DATE
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Mark your calendars. AEN are excited to announce details for the Mid-Year Conference and Field Officers Conference later in the year.
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2024 AEN Mid-Year Conference
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Date: Wednesday 17th July - Thursday 18th July
Location: Lake Side Hotel Bendigo
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2024 Field Officers Conference
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Date: Thursday 29th August - Friday 30th August
Location: RACV Goldfields Resort Creswick
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Full details on these conferences will soon be available on the AEN Calendar.
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The prestigious Victorian Training Awards will celebrate their 70th anniversary in 2024.
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AEN & GAN Australia are again proud to be the awards principal partner.
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We encourage all of our recent Apprentice Training Award finalists and winners to enter.
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Nominations close Friday, 12 April 2024.
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International Women’s Day
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Women's equality is everyone's responsibility.
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Worldwide, anyone can play an important part in their own chosen way.
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International Women's Day (IWD) belongs to everyone, everywhere. There's a space and place for everyone to help fight the good fight. That's the spirit of abundance.
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All IWD activity is valid, that's what makes IWD inclusive.
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IWD was started collectively by burning passion and tenacity for positive change back in 1911.
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Today, it is this very essence that ignites, inspires, directs and connects audiences globally. One world, one mission: a movement forging women's equality. Collective activism connects audiences from anywhere, and everywhere.
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IWD draws together and unifies all those who care deeply about women's equality, who care about righting the wrongs, who care about doing what they can to help forge a gender-equal and inclusive world.
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Victorian Energy Jobs Plan Consultation Paper
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Have your say in shaping the Victorian Energy Jobs Plan
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The Victorian Government is planning for Victoria’s future renewable energy workforce through the Victorian Energy Jobs Plan.
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The Plan will support Victoria to develop the workforce required to deliver our nation leading target of 95 percent renewable electricity generation by 2035, and to drive investment confidence to enable the energy transition.
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- provide an update on the development of the Plan, based on research and consultation findings to date.
- provide stakeholders, rightsholders and unions with an opportunity to give feedback and support the process.
- test key questions and issues with stakeholders, rightsholders and unions, which are set out in the document to guide submissions.
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Submissions received in response to this Consultation Paper will inform development of the Victorian Energy Jobs Plan and our approach to the forthcoming Wind Worker Training Centre and Hydrogen Worker Training Centre.
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Ai Group Centre for Education & Training Skills Survey
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Through this survey AiGroup are hoping to understand more about how you see trends like artificial intelligence, global economic conditions and the transition to a clean economy impacting your business and workforce in the years ahead.
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By participating, you will play a role in raising awareness among policymakers about the specific challenges impacting your business and businesses like yours.
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Ai Group will use these insights to shape their advocacy on the strategies and initiatives needed to ensure more Australian businesses can access the skills and capabilities they need to grow.
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WorkSafe is reminding Victorian employers that strict controls to protect workers from deadly crystalline silica dust will be enforced in the lead up to the nationwide engineered stone ban later this year.
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From 1 July 2024, employers will no longer be permitted to carry out work involving the manufacturing, supply, processing or installation of engineered stone.
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Victoria already has the strongest regulatory regime in Australia with respect to the use of engineered stone, including a ban on the uncontrolled dry-cutting of engineered stone and requiring businesses undertaking engineered stone processes to hold a licence.
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WorkSafe Executive Director Health and Safety Narelle Beer said employers must continue to comply with the state's strict engineered stone requirements ahead of the ban.
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A WorkSafe campaign raising awareness of the ban on engineered stone has begun, including advertising in regional and culturally diverse publications, multi-lingual social media messaging and communications to licence holders.
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This week NCVER released the Government-funded students and courses - January to September 2023 report, which provides a summary of data relating to domestic Government-funded VET activity delivered in Australia. It contains information on students, programs, subjects and training providers.
The data shows there were 1 074 005 students enrolled in government-funded vocational education and training (VET) in the first nine months of 2023, an increase of 1.7% when compared with the same period in 2022.
In the January to September 2023 period, there were 1 245 855 government-funded program enrolments, similar to the same period in 2022. The majority of government-funded program enrolments were in training package qualifications, which accounted for 78.9% of enrolments.
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Community Services was the most popular training package.
Engineering and related technologies had 209 795 program enrolments in the nine months to September 2023, making it the most popular field of education once again.
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Certificate III qualifications continued to be the most popular level of education.
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Victorian Public Holidays
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- Monday 11 March - Labour Day
- Friday 29 March - Good Friday
- Saturday 30 March - Saturday before Easter Sunday
- Sunday 31 March - Easter Sunday
- Monday 1 April - Easter Monday
- Thursday 25 April - Anzac Day
- Monday 10 June - King's Birthday
- Subject to AFL schedule (date TBC) - Friday before AFL Grand Final
- Tuesday 5 November - Melbourne Cup
- Wednesday 25 December - Christmas Day
- Thursday 26 December - Boxing Day
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Mental Health in the Workplace
This training examines the impact on mental health of negative workplace behaviours, of poor work culture and organisational failure and of practices, roles and responsibilities in contributing to a mentally healthy workplace.
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Date: Tuesday 9th April 2024
Time: 10:00am - 12:00pm
Delivery: In Person
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Raising Personal Awareness
We are often obsessed with time and get distracted by the whirlwind of daily tasks, which by the end of the workday may make us wonder what we actually achieved.
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Personal effectiveness is about knowing when and where to direct efforts to achieve fruitful outcomes.
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In this engaging session, you will learn how to reduce interruptions and optimise your day by using a variety of productivity hacks that can make all the difference. These techniques are easy to learn and can help you work smarter, not harder.
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Date: Wednesday 17th April 2024
Time: 10:00am - 1:30pm
Delivery: In Person
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Facilitating Crucial Conversations
Sometimes we choose to avoid difficult conversations as they seem too hard, but unfortunately the problems remain unresolved. Other times we facilitate crucial conversations and wish we knew how to handle them better. Here’s the upside: there are well-tested communication strategies to swiftly turn dysfunctional situations into constructive conversations.
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Date: Tuesday 7th May 2024
Time: 10:00am - 1:30pm
Delivery: In Person
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Please login to the members area prior to purchasing tickets to access the members rate or to RSVP for a free event.
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Since the program commenced in May 2020, a total of 1,195 participants have been supported to date.
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Apprentices and trainees who have lost their employment are encouraged to register.
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For assistance by one of our program officers until placed with a host employer through a Group Training Organisation (GTO), or directly with an employer.
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If you have an apprenticeship position you would like to fill, please contact the AEN Office so we can forward potential candidates that meet your criteria.
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Thanks to our Industry Partners
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