Work placement is a planned opportunity in a quality host workplace that enables senior school students studying particular industry-based courses to practise and develop their industry competencies and their employability skills in a vibrant real work context.
The Work It Out program is for young people in the Richmond-Tweed region, aged 15 to 19 who are not currently in employment, education or training. The program is designed to help young people address the barriers and challenges they are facing that may be preventing them from undertaking or engaging in employment, education and training opportunities.
The Indigenous School-based Traineeship Program is designed to support Indigenous students into viable career pathways. Students may participate in part-time work while they’re still at school, undertake a School-based Traineeship during Year 11 and 12, or commence a post-school Apprenticeship or Traineeship when they finish Year 12.
In the Future Tracks program, Connect works in partnership with schools and Aboriginal communities to develop place-based projects to improve school engagement and expand career opportunities for young people.
