Career Revive expressions of interest open for 2022 intake

Published on 02 February 2022

The first intake of Kempsey Shire Council's Try a Trade

Does your business need help making cultural changes to better recruit and retain women seeking to return to work after a career break?

There is support available through the Career Revive program.

Businesses need to be willing to participate in a range of activities including weekly challenges, co-designing an action plan, mentoring sessions, action learning groups and workshops. Participating businesses will need to nominate an executive sponsor to support implementation of actions. For more information on what will be expected of businesses participating in the program check out the Information for businesses resource.

Businesses selected to participate in the program receive expert advice through management consultant KPMG who will:

  • review your business’ physical workplace, processes, policies and culture to identify potential barriers that might be preventing the attraction of talented women returning to work
  • offer guidance on how to improve practices and policies, and develop a tailored action plan to establish a supported returner program and address other barriers within your business.

Is my business eligible?

To be eligible to participate in Career Revive, businesses need to:

  • be medium to large (50+ employees)
  • be looking to strengthen their business recruitment and retention practices for women. Including, improving workplace policies for parents, increasing flexible working arrangements and/or implementing a supported returner program.
  • have provided evidence of a strategy to improve diversity, equity or inclusion.

Previous participants in the program have reported value from having an experienced consultant provide practical advice on how to do things differently, improving recruitment, attraction and retention processes, increasing the number of female employees, providing a mechanism for promoting cultural change at the management level.

Applications are open now until Monday 28 February 2022

Apply now

If you are shortlisted by the federal government's Department of Education, Skills and Employment  will contact you to organise a 15 minute interview in March 2022. The interview will be conducted via video conference or phone.

It is expected that businesses will start working with KPMG in July 2022. This will provide you time to integrate participation in the initiative into your planning schedules and allow you to allocate the resources to participate.

If you would like further information contact CareerRevive@dese.gov.au or visit www.dese.gov.au/career-revive.

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