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AEN Newsletter - 15th March 2024
Victorian Careers & Employment Expo
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Mental Health in the Workplace
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Raising Personal Effectiveness
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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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Tickets now available to purchase through the AEN Website
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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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WorldSkills Australia Lyon 2024
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WorldSkills Australia is pleased to announce the 2024 Australian Team, who will represent Australia at the 47th International Competition, taking place in the French city of Lyon in September.
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The contingent of 33 young apprentices, trainees, and students (known as the Skillaroos) is the largest the organisation has sent overseas since Lyon last hosted in 1995.
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The WorldSkills Australia delegation of competitors, trainers, officials, and team management, is the largest ever sent to an International Competition.
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The 47th International Competition is set to be the biggest skills competition ever, with over 1,500 Competitors from 75 countries set to compete in 59 skills.
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More than 250,000 visitors are also expected to attend the event, which will run from September 10th -15th.
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WorldkSkills Australia’s participation in the International Competition aims to benchmark Australian skills excellence against global standards.
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Team Australia members represent the best in their fields, which include Plumbing, Carpentry, Baking, Industry 4.0, Cyber Security, and Fashion Design.
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The journey for selection has spanned two years, beginning with a regional WorldSkills competition in 2022 that involved more than 3,000 competitors.
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Winners from each region then competed in the National Championships in 2023, with medallists being eligible for selection in Team Australia that will travel to France.
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Each Skillaroo will be accompanied by their expert who have overseen their training and preparation to compete on the global stage, meaning the contingent wearing the green and gold will number close to 75.
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AICD 2024/2025 Not-for-Profit Scholarship Program
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As part of their commitment to the vital not-for-profit sector, the AICD is pleased to be offering 200 scholarships to emerging and current not-for-profit directors to strengthen their governance skills.
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This program is open to leaders of small not-for-profit organisations (annual income $2 million or less) in all states and territories.
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Successful applicants will undertake the highly regarded Governance Foundations for Not-for-Profit Directors course between August 2024 and June 2025, equipping them with a comprehensive understanding of the fundamentals of not-for-profit governance.
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Applications will close on Sunday 14 April 2024.
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In September 2023, the VRQA launched BuildUP.
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A regulatory campaign focused on women building and construction apprentices and trainees.
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VRQA opened a hotline and reached out to all women apprentices and trainees in civil construction in Victoria.
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Authorised Officers spoke to 60 of them about their experiences, visiting them in the workplace or conducting phone interviews.
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The good news is VRQA found high levels of employer compliance.
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The bad news is that VRQA found a culture of silence when women apprentices and trainees are mistreated by employers.
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The VRQA is currently following up with two employers regarding allegations of breaches to training contracts made during the BuildUP campaign.
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Where VRQA finds employers who mistreat women apprentices and trainees and don’t change their ways, we will remove their approval to employ apprentices and trainees in Victoria.
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Any apprentice or trainee with concerns can:
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Assembled Threads are helping to tackle long term unemployment amongst culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) women in our community.
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Every product purchased represents an ethical wage paid to the person creating your garments.
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This ensures together we are transforming and rebuilding the lives of our most disadvantaged community members.
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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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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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Head on over to GAN Australia and subscribe to the newsletter to be kept up to date with everything that’s happening with GAN Australia and the wider VET sector?
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Thanks to our Industry Partners
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