Employment

  • Recruits’ valuable training

    A Victorian jobs program has helped upskill a dozen people in Colac and sparked careers in the environment sector.

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  • Training push for region

    A Western District youth network wants Vocational Education and Training, or VET, to lose its “poor second cousin” status.

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  • Jobs growth fuelling recovery

    Colac’s business community is showing signs of recovery, with hundreds of new opportunities opening up for the region’s jobseekers after a horror 2020.

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  • Jobseeker finds the perfect role

    Finding the right job when you have to work around the needs of young children is not easy, and for Colac mother Tiffany, it proved challenging.

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  • ALC looking for workers amid coronavirus crisis

    With hundreds of people across Colac and district now facing the reality of unemployment due to coronavirus restrictions, one Colac employer is continuing to support locals.

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  • Jobless rate falls across district

    COLAC’S jobless rate has fallen to below Victorian and national levels in the latest figures, with just 340 people unemployed and major employers increasing their search for workers.

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  • PLEASE EXPLAIN: Colanda staff angry about closure plans

    EMPLOYEES at Colac’s Colanda centre have told union officials they are angry at the lack of consultation from the State Government on the centre’s closure.

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  • TRAVEL PLEA: Extra trains would help jobless

    A COLAC employment service manager says Colac’s inadequate train service is a “massive disadvantage” for the district’s job seekers.

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