BETTER CONNECTIONS

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BETTER CONNECTIONS BETTER OUTCOMES

• IMPROVING LABOUR MARKET EFFECTIVENESS
• Outer West Sydney 20 October 2005

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Agenda

• 10.00am Welcome and Introductions
• 10.10am Better Connections presentation
• 11.00am Guest speaker Brian Mulvey, AiG
  mature age project
• 11.15am Coffee break
• 11.30am Guest speakers
• Jill Hummelstad Wise Workforce
• - Judith Field, Delfin-Lend Lease
• 12.00noon Identification of the issues
• 12.30pm Developing an action plan (working
  lunch provided)
• 1.45pm Drawing it together
• 2.00pm Close

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Origins of the workshops

• DEWR undertakes a range of research and analysis
  of labour supply and skill shortages
• DEWR, with other Government agencies, is looking
  at how to address Australias labour supply and
  skill shortages
• Run a series of workshops to share information
  and ideas

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Objective of the workshops

• Improve Labour Market Effectiveness by
• addressing labour supply and skill shortage
  issues
• increasing labour market participation (target
  groups mature aged, single parents, people with
  a disability, Indigenous Australians, people from
  culturally and linguistically diverse
  backgrounds, youth)
• establishing and further developing linkages
  between relevant organisations

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Outer West Sydney Employment Service Area
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Population Growth
Source ABS Population projections 2002-2011 (Cat
no 3222.0) Series B
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Outer West Sydney Profile

• Working Age Population (15-64) 353,000
• Unemployment Rate 5.8 vs 5.1 for the state
• Diversity
• 26.4 of the population born overseas (23.2 for
  the state)
• 18.7 born in a non English speaking country
  (16.1 for the state)
• Education
• 32.4 of the population completed post school
  qualifications
• compared to 36.3 for the state
• 9.6 of the population completed a degree or
  higher compared
• to 13.6 for the state

Source DEWR Small Area Labour Markets June
2005, 2001 Census
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Outer West SydneyLabour Market Demand

• Industry
• Employment by industry vs state
• Employment status by industry
• Employment by Occupation

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Outer West Sydney ESA Skills Shortage Survey

• Survey covered all main industries and a wide
  range of occupations
• 45 of applicants were rated as suitable (850 out
  of 1,900)
• 79 of vacancies filled or expected to be filled.

Source Outer Western Sydney Regional Skill
Shortage Survey
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Source Outer West Sydney Regional Skill Shortage
Survey
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Source Outer West Sydney Regional Skill Shortage
Survey
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Source Outer West Sydney Regional Skill Shortage
Survey
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Source Outer West Sydney Regional Skills
Shortage Survey
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Outer West Sydney ESARecruitment expectations

• 82 of employers surveyed expect to recruit in
  the next year
• 94 of these employers expect to have difficulty
  filling positions for their business.
• Over the next year employers had the greatest
  concern about recruiting
• Professionals
• Intermediate Production and Transport Workers
• Tradespeople

Source Outer Western Sydney Regional Skill
Shortage Survey
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Outer West Sydney Labour Market Demand

• All vacancies lodged and filled (Job Network and
  Job Placement Organisations)
• New Apprenticeship vacancies lodged and filled
  (Job Network and Job Placement Organisations)
• New Apprenticeship commencements (DEST 2003/04)

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Sydney and New South WalesMature Age Employment

• Participation rate
• Average length of unemployment
• Full and Part Time employment

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Value of Mature Age Workers

• Client focus match customer profile
• Loyalty lower staff turnover
• Adaptability experienced changes before
• Trainability apply life skills to new tasks
• Less absenteeism strong work ethic
• Organisational knowledge mentoring role
• Flexibility work hours, locations and contracts

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Jobwise Self Help Groups

• Self Help Groups (SHGs) have just commenced in
  Penrith and Blacktown (also in Katoomba).
• Workshops to attract SHG participants were held
  earlier this month.
• Further details about SHGs can be obtained from
  www.jobwise.gov.au.
• In addition, local marketing strategies to
  promote SHGs will commence shortly.

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Outer West SydneyLabour Market Supply

• Working Age Populations
• Working age payment recipients
• Centrelink and Job Network populations
• Job Network quarterly referrals

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Upcoming activities and those already established
and underway

• AiG mature age project
• Various residential developments eg
• Delfin Lend Lease Ropes Creek development - St
  Marys
• Medallist Developments project at Colebee
• Glemore Park Penrith Lakes and Claremont
  meadows
• Retail expansion
• Westfield Mount Druitt
• Penrith Plaza
• BlueScope Steel manufacturing plant - Erskine
  Park
• GPC Electronics plant expansion
• M7 Motorway to bring jobs to Western Sydney

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Guest speakers

• Brian Mulvey
• Project Officer
• AiG mature age project
• Jill Hummelstad
• Business Facilitator Western Sydney Business
  Advisory Services / Basi
• Wise Workforce provider
• Judith Field
• Delfin Lend Lease

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Range of DEWR Programmes

• Job Network
• Employer Demand Demonstration Projects
• Employment Innovation Fund
• Job Placement
• Community Work Coordinators
• Voluntary Work Initiatives
• Green Corps
• New Enterprise Incentive Scheme
• Transition to Work
• National Harvest Labour Information Service

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Possible issues for consideration

• How can providers better engage with industry and
  employers to take advantage of opportunities in
  the region (eg Delfin Lend Lease development AiG
  mature age project retail developments)
• Local labour force issues
• How to increase the participation of mature age
  job seekers?
• How to increase the participation of sole parents
  and people with a disability?
• How to engage employers and industry to increase
  the participation of parents, people with a
  disability, mature age, Indigenous Australians,
  refugees and the very long-term unemployed?
• How can employment service providers make better
  linkages and increase the placement of job
  seekers into New Apprenticeships?

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Developing a local action plan

• Focus on practical actions for each issue being
  addressed
• Identify stakeholders and linkages

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Evaluation strategy

• Workshop evaluation to be filled out today
• Follow up survey of participants to assess
  specific actions/strategies undertaken
• Longer term data analysis to assess measurable
  items and analysis of qualitative information
  relating directly to each workshop

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Finish

• Thank you