Need some help finding the right person for the job? The following services can help you find experienced staff.
Investing in Experience tool kit
The Investing in Experience tool kit has been designed as your one-stop guide for employing people aged 45 years and over, and can provide you with advice and resources to help you implement positive age management practices in your organisation. Checklists, case studies and links to further resources are also included throughout the tool kit.
The long-term success of any business depends on the ability to tap into a diverse body of talent, knowledge and skills. Age-friendly recruitment practices can widen the applicant pool to help you find the best person. Chapter 3 of the tool kit provides information and tips on all aspects of recruiting mature age workers, including preparing job descriptions, short-listing and interviewing.
Job Services Australia
Job Services Australia provides free, tailored assistance to help you find staff. Job Services Australia is designed to be flexible and responsive to your needs.
Your local Job Services Australia provider can help you with:
- High quality recruitment services and advice
- Candidate screening and short-listing to help match skilled job seekers with job opportunities
- Work experience opportunities
- Skills training for job seekers tailored to your business needs
- Access to the Australian Government’s free online Australian JobSearch database to register staff vacancies and search for new staff directly
- Opportunities for wage assistance and subsidies
- Additional support to employ Indigenous Australians.
You can find a provider by calling 13 17 64 or by using the search tool:
Disability Employment Services
People with disability can bring a range of skills, qualifications and experience to your business. Disability Employment Services can help you recruit and retain employees with disability and support you and the employee in the workplace, if it is required.
Disability Employment Services can also help you access a range of other support and incentives such as wage subsidies, workplace modifications, assistive technology, mental health, disability and deafness awareness training and Auslan (Australian Sign Language) interpreting. For more information call 1800 464 800 or visit the websites below:
Australian Apprenticeships
No matter what industry you are in, investing in training through an Australian Apprenticeship can provide your business with real benefits and add to your bottom line.
Australian Apprenticeships are available in a variety of qualification levels in more than 500 occupations across Australia, in traditional trades, as well as a diverse range of emerging careers in most sectors of business and industry.
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The Support for Adult Australian Apprentices payment provides financial support to Australian Apprentices or their employer during the first two years of an Australian Apprenticeship.
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Information about other financial incentives available to employers of Australian Apprentices is available at:
To find an Australian Apprenticeships Centre near you call 13 38 73.
Online jobs boards
You can search for reliable and experienced staff online using the following jobs boards:
Australian Job Search
JobSearch is Australia's largest free online jobs website. You can advertise your job vacancies directly on JobSearch and search for suitable staff using the free Find Staff tool.
Adage
Enhance workforce diversity, retention and productivity and reduce recruitment costs and business risk by sourcing high calibre, quality mature candidates online.
BeNext
BeNext is a workforce solutions business that brings together the skills and knowledge of the mature age worker with organisations that can offer meaningful and flexible work they want.
Careermums
Careermums is a national jobs board for parents returning to work. It targets job seekers aged 30-55 and focuses on flexible and part-time jobs.
Daywork
Daywork is a job search website that advertises temporary, casual, contract, part-time and other flexible employment opportunities.
Flexiworkers
Flexiworkers is a website aimed at people seeking flexible work, such as contract, casual, part-time or job share roles. The service is free to employers and job seekers alike.
La Concierge
La Concierge is a relief personnel service specialising in providing employers with mature aged staff who have extensive experience in the workforce, particularly in administration and retail.
Lifestyle Careers
Lifestyle Careers is a jobs board dedicated to flexible and home office employment opportunities.
Olderworkers
Olderworkers encourages employers to look at the work skills, life skills and work ethic that older job seekers bring to business. Olderworkers also advertises opportunities for Grey Nomads who wish to work while they travel.
Part Time Online
Part Time Online provides a comprehensive jobs board, targeted job search, and interactive online community network for individuals, employers and agencies interested in part-time work, job share, work from home and freelance employment on a contract, temporary, casual or permanent basis.
Plus40
Are you in need of skilled and committed employees, who you can rely on to get the job done? Plus40 brings employers together with the skills, value and experience of workers over 40.
Seek
Seek is a popular choice for advertisers searching for the right candidate and job seekers looking for the right job. Seek allows job seekers to search for jobs that meet their needs.
SilverTemp
SilverTemp is a new venture in the Northern Rivers of New South Wales created specifically to provide temporary or part-time work for men and women aged over 50. There are many employers who need skilled people but not on a full-time basis, perhaps for only a few hours each week. For any size business, employing mature age people makes good economic sense.
Private recruitment firms
The following private recruitment firms can help you tap into the wealth of experience that mature age workers have to offer.
Dome SA (Don’t Overlook Mature Expertise)
Mature aged people provide an experienced and stable workforce and are keen to put their skills to use and learn new things. DOME offers an efficient, free service to employers looking to fill vacancies. Dome is a community based employment and training organisation in South Australia.
GreyHair Alchemy
GreyHair Alchemy is a recruitment agency that specialises in mature, professional executives who market their skills as interim managers. GreyHair has a database of experienced professionals across a range of business disciplines and industries and can provide a short-list of suitably qualified executives at very short notice. There is no registration or joining fee, however a commission is paid by the employer upon an assignment being undertaken.
Over 40 Recruitment
If you are an employer looking for experienced and reliable staff in Adelaide, Over 40 Recruitment can provide you with a personal and professional recruitment service and can supply you with high calibre candidates.
SilverTemp
SilverTemp is a new venture in the Northern Rivers of New South Wales created specifically to provide temporary or part-time work for men and women aged over 50. There are many employers who need skilled people but not on a full-time basis, perhaps for only a few hours each week. For any size business, employing mature age people makes good economic sense.
Workingconnections
Workingconnections service provides jobsearch advice and support for many mature age jobseekers. It is part of National Seniors Australia.