Barrier to Opportunity Toolkit - For service providers
“This toolkit can help employers to consider the opportunity of hiring multicultural jobseekers rather than ‘taking the risk’ “ – Service provider working with employers
I want to
- improve my services to better support multicultural communities
- support multicultural jobseekers build their employability skills
- build employment pathways for multicultural jobseekers and learners
I want to improve my services to better support multicultural communities
What can I learn about local multicultural communities and community members?
- Who is arriving in Australia?
- Knowing your community
- Engaging multicultural community members to inform your services
- [Video] Turning listening into action: engaging with multicultural communities. Webinar hosted by CMY and VMC
- Mature-age jobseekers from multicultural backgrounds
- Women from multicultural backgrounds
- Regional workers from multicultural backgrounds
How can I identify, test and share service improvements?
- Practice-sharing networks
- Measuring impact through monitoring and evaluation
- M&E tool: Designing a program logic
- M&E tool: Monitoring and evaluation framework
- M&E tool: Surveying multicultural community members
- M&E tool: Focus groups with multicultural community members
- M&E tool: Ethical considerations
I want to help multicultural jobseekers build their employability skills
The following resources can support service providers to empower jobseekers with knowledge and skills essential for long-term, sustainable and enjoyable employment.
What skills and knowledge do multicultural jobseekers need?
Consultation with multicultural jobseekers identified a need to build skills and knowledge of health, financial, career, and workplace cultural literacy in the context of gaining and maintaining employment, and recognising and protecting their rights as workers.
- Participation skills for employment – a guide to the career, financial, health, and workplace cultural skills needs of jobseekers from multicultural backgrounds
- Participation skills factsheets – supporting your workers to access information about important topics for employment
- Supporting multicultural workers to know their rights
- [Video] Scam awareness: protecting multicultural communities. Webinar hosted by WEstjustice
Participation skills training program
- Full participation skills training program
- Career literacy course
- Financial literacy course
- Health literacy course
- Workplace cultural literacy course
I want to build employment pathways for multicultural jobseekers and learners
How can I encourage and support employers to engage multicultural jobseekers?
- Supporting multicultural workers to know their rights
- Occupational health safety checklist
- Mature-age jobseekers from multicultural backgrounds
- Women from multicultural backgrounds
- Regional workers from multicultural backgrounds
- Building a culturally inclusive workplace
How can I promote the skills and strengths of multicultural learners and jobseekers?
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