Everyone Deserves to Work with IDEAL Placement’s Help

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IDEAL Placements first opened its doors in 1995 and is dedicated to helping young people, people with disabilities, and people in career transition into long term employment through support and training.

Over the years, IDEAL Placements has become innovative at helping their participants find the right roles while facing regional transport availability, homelessness and housing, cost of living, and having a different focus and attitude towards work and study.

They find that many of these barriers need to be addressed first before you can focus on anything else.

One trend they are seeing is school leavers choosing work over study.

IDEAL Placements has been spending time working with young people to complete micro credentials, so they get the knowledge and training they need to get them into work.

Another specific program Ideal Placement runs is their 5-week Career Transition Assistance Program for unemployed people aged 45+ years that not only refreshes job ready skills but also reveals the many opportunities out there that they may not have considered or thought they were not capable of.

Ideal Placement’s top tips for businesses of all sizes is to give young people, people with a disability, and those restarting their career a go.

Everyone must start somewhere, and they could be the next leader or long-term employee in your business.

Ideal Placements is located in Cannonvale, Proserpine and Bowen.