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Key to success and fulfilment
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Career Keys is a non-profit organisation that provides community-based training and transition support to young people, parents and socially disadvantaged groups to assist them with gaining employment. It is the only organisation that is delivering this type of service in the Logan area. Career Keys is about helping others to develop their confidence, work skills and the ability to fulfil their career goals successfully, and most of its programmes are available free of charge.
Deidre Foreman, the general manager of Career Keys, has a staff of 20 employees - three quarters of whom are much valued mature age workers. “I wanted to have a balanced workforce and I have put in place on-going training that has given an opportunity for staff to adapt to new skills as needed,” Deidre said.
Because mature age people do not always have the confidence to sell themselves at job interviews, Deidre believes that employers need to have skills to elicit information from potential employees so that they can see what skills mature age job seekers may bring to the workplace. She also has a policy of allowing her staff to work part-time – an arrangement that requires her staff to share jobs and be multi-skilled.
Deidre Foreman, Marcella Mortimer and Elena Meale at Career Keys |
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