OVERVIEW
The Tourism Recruitment and Retention Programme (TRARP) aims to support the Queensland Tourism Strategy theme three action plan: Workforce Development: Objective 1: Tourism as a competitive sector of the labour market, attracting, training and retaining. This will be enacted by facilitating pathways for alternative labour pools to engage in tourism: sole parents and carers, Indigenous Australians, women, people with disabilities and people over 45 years of age. ObjectivesA key objective of the project is to work with employers to support flexible recruitment and retention systems in businesses: - systems that overcome the barriers many potential employees perceive in the tourism sector. Our aim is that tourism industry employers are equipped to attract all potential employees within the community through flexible, supportive and innovative human resource functions. Free on-line resources are available to support the Human Resource Functions of the industry. Special on-line training to improve the capacity of business to respond to today’s labour market have been designed so that our industry can utilise their time and human capabilities more effectively. Programme ManagementThe programme is initiated and managed through a steering committee representing Regional Tourism Organisations in Mackay, Capricorn, Gladstone and the Outback, with assistance provided from the QTIC Regional Skills Project Officer. At the beginning of 2008, the Tourism Sunshine Coast has become an effective partner, by linking this project with the Skills Formation Strategy operating in this region. The Sunshine Coast regional pilot will be a model to support this industry in the future. Regional AccessAt a regional level, training programs and industry access will be made more accessible to each of the target groups in the alternative labour pools, by creating effective links with representative bodies and agencies and enabling our industry to key into the needs of each group. The project is funded by Department of Education, Science and Training (DEST) More Details |
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