Community
Outreach: MTC provides a free service once a week at our Belmore office for anyone needing advice or assistance with job search, resume and letter writing. This service runs on Fridays from 1.30-4pm and is available to anyone looking for employment that is not eligible for Job Services Australia assistance or attached to a Job Services Australia provider.
Housing Estate Outreach: MTC provides a free outreach program for residents living in the Cranebrook Housing Estate. This program has included job search support and assistance. MTC provides a staff member once a week for one-on-one support free of charge. The program is working with the residents to assist with job seeking and building confidence to re-enter the workforce.
Humanitarian/Refugee Entrant Job Seeker Pilot Project: This pilot project delivered an intervention of 15 weeks for 10 humanitarian/refugee entrant job seekers from the Sydney metro region.
The pilot aimed to improve employment prospects by increasing their understanding of the Australian workplace and labour market, and understanding how their current level of skills/qualifications could be utilised in the Australian market.
The project objectives were to provide an intervention for humanitarian/refugee entrant job seekers to:
- increase their employment prospects by understanding their needs and providing practical workplace experience;
- establish better integration of this group into the labour market and the Australian community,
- reduce long term dependency by this group on welfare payments, and
- develop a better understanding and more positive perceptions of humanitarian and refugee status job seekers by service deliverers and employers.
MTC was recognised as one of Australia's top performers in this project with 90% of job seekers gaining employment at completion of the programme.