Australian government employment initiatives

Connections: Connections (previously known as POEM, the Partnership Outreach Education Model) is a Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations (DEEWR) program designed to help young people, aged 13 to 19, who are not in mainstream schooling by giving them other ways to continue their learning. Also see the Career and Transition (CAT) Pilots evaluation details.

Job Placement, Employment and Training (JPET): an early intervention program focusing on youth in transition. It provides help to young people who are homeless, at risk of becoming homeless, ex-offenders, refugees or wards of the state.

Career Advice Australia: a DEEWR website that aims to help young people, aged 13 to 19, connect to their future. Its youth section has resources to help young people move through school and into further, study, training or work. The "Get a job" section includes links to:

Centrelink: a statutory authority that provides a range of customer services for a range of Australian Government departments through its service centres, including services for students, trainees and jobseekers.

Job Network: a national network of private and community organisations dedicated to finding jobs for unemployed people, particularly the long-term unemployed.

the source: the Australian Government’s gateway to youth-related information, services, resources and entertainment (contains some information and advice on careers).

More federal government links for school leavers and for career choices.

(All links verified on 12 January 2009.)

Non-government employment initiatives

Jobseeker is a online employment website that is part of 'Infoxchange Australia, Technology for Social Justice'. The Jobseeker service specialises in community jobs, not-for-profit and government jobs. Its listings include a sustantial number of youth-related jobs.

This ACTU website has resources to help young people get their first job, providing advice on pay, safety and fairness.

This site has employment-related legal information for people residing in the state of Victoria (Australia).

YAA is an independent, non-government, not-for-profit charitable institution that is committed to developing the potential of young Australians. YAA operates nationally through a network of state and regional offices and is affiliated internationally with Junior Achievement operations in over 100 countries around the world. YAA programs link education with business to provide young people with skills and knowledge to better equip them for their future working lives.

This youth-led training organisation has a useful page on their website about employment contracts.

Unemployment

See the 'Monthly statistical bulletin' (Table 1.5: Youth Unemployment), available from the Parliamentary Library (Parliament of Australia), for the latest youth unemployment statistics.

Youth workers and stress, by Vaughan Bowie
v.27, n.2, pp.36-44. Summary

Hanging in there: What makes a difference in the first year of an apprenticeship, by  Angela Hill & Leanne Dalley-Trim
Youth Studies Australia, v.27, n.1, pp.36-42. Summary

Financial management and young Australian workers, by  Nicki Dowling, Lauren Hoiles, Tim Corney & David Clark
Youth Studies Australia, v.27, n.1, pp.26-35. Summary

Underpaid and exploited: Pay-related employment concerns experienced by young workers, by Paula McDonald, Sandra Backstrom and Aaron Allegretto
v.26, n.3, 2007, pp.10-18.

Mentoring 1: Whitelion individualised mentoring and employment program, by Alistair Lemmon.
v.24, n.4, 2005, pp.40-44.

Australian apprentices and gambling. by Nicki Dowling, David Clarke, Lynda Memery and Tim Corney.
v.24 n.3, 2005, pp.17-23.

Who is upholding the rights of young workers? A profile of advocacy groups in Australia, by Paula McDonald and Kerriann Dear.
v.24 n.3, 2005, pp.10-16.

Teenage employability: Views of employers, by Erica Smith.
v.23, n.4, 2004, pp.47-53.

Work for the Dole: A pathway to self-esteem and employment commitment, or the road to frustration?
Ed Carson, Anthony H. Winefield, Lea Waters and Lorraine Kerr.
v.22, n.4, 2003, pp.19-26.

The first job: Experiences of young Australians starting full-time work, by Erica Smith.
v.22, n.1, 2003, pp.11-17.

Work for the Dole: A pathway to self-esteem and employment commitment, or the road to frustration? by Ed Carson, Anthony H. Winefield, Lea Waters and Lorraine Kerr.
v.22, n.4, 2003, pp.21-28.

WAM: Willing and Able Mentoring Program, by Kevin Murfitt
v.21 n.1, 2002, p.52.

Sex, drugs and drinking: Health risks in the social lives of young workers, by Jo Lindsay
v.20, n.4, 2001, pp.11-18.

Rural resilience: youth 'making a life' in regions of high unemployment, by Joan Abbott-Chapman
v.20, n.3, 2001, pp.26-31., by .

Taking care of business: An overview of youth enterprise programs in Australia, by Simon White.
v.19, n.2, 2000, pp.11-16.

Research in progress: Self employment, by S. White.
v.14, n.3, 1995, p.50.

Un and under employment, by J. Lauritsen.
v.14, n.2, 1995, pp.32-36.

Unemployment: A cause or consequence of delinquency?, by J.B. Nash.
v.15, n.3, 1996, pp.43-47.

Youth and tourism industry employment: A survey of Far North Queensland secondary students, by G.F. Ross.
v.11, n.3, 1992, pp.43-45.

Research in progress: Young workers and industry restructuring, by B. Wilson.
v.11, n.3, 1992, pp.40-42.

Full-time shifts: The effect of industry restructuring on young workers in full-time employment, by B. Wilson.
v.11, n.3, 1992, pp.34-39.

Hopping in hamburger heaven: Youth underemployment in the service sector, by L. Munro.
v.11, n.3, 1992, pp.25-33.

Student workers: New data on gender and education differences, by L. Robinson and M. Long.
v.11, n.3, 1992, pp.14-24.

Alternatives to unemployment: The Transition Education Program, by B.J. Fraser.
v.10, n.3, 1991, pp.50-53.

Working blind - student participation in the work force, by J. Spoehr.
v.10, n.3, 1991, pp.39-44.

The student worker: A new adolescent lifestyle, by K. Yap.
v.10, n.3, 1991, pp.34-38.

Contracts and agreements: Government reforms in Australia and New Zealand, by C. White and J. Bessant.
v.10, n.3, 1991, pp.27-33.

Young women workers, by M. Raymond and J. Elton.
v.10, n.3, 1991, pp.24-26.

It all just feels above me (Marketing Unions 2), by D. Palmer.
v.10, n.3, 1991, pp.19-23.

Yes, unions can survive (Marketing Unions 1), by B. Wood.
v.10, n.3, 1991, pp.12-18.

Part-time work and future employment: A pilot study, by B. Woolmer.
v.9, n.3, 1990, pp.30-35.

Responses to unemployment: A review and discussion, by C. Withers-Mayne.
v.9, n.1, 1990, pp.39-50.

Changing youth labour markets and youth lifestyles, by K. Polk and D. Tait.
v.9, n.1, 1990, pp.17-23.

Changing entitlements for the young unemployed, by J. Trethewey and O. Burston
'Youth Studies and Abstracts: Bulletin of the National Clearinghouse for Youth Studies', 1989 v.8 n.2, pp.45-50.

The youth labour market: A twenty-year perspective, by R. Sweet
'Youth Studies and Abstracts: Bulletin of the National Clearinghouse for Youth Studies', 1988 v.7 n.3, pp.31-36.

Long-term youth unemployment, training programs and the 'youth guarantee', by S.M. Rimmer
'Youth Studies and Abstracts: Bulletin of the National Clearinghouse for Youth Studies', 1988 v.7 n.2, pp.7-12.

It means a lot more than business: Young people and enterprise skills, by D. Turner
'Youth Studies and Abstracts: Bulletin of the National Clearinghouse for Youth Studies', 1988 v.7 n.2, pp.2-6.

Employment access for whom?, by D. Griffiths
'Youth Studies and Abstracts: Bulletin of the National Clearinghouse for Youth Studies', 1988 v.7 n.1, pp.7-11.

Job retention and youth from Youth Training Centres (YTC), by H. Read and C. Alder
'Youth Studies and Abstracts: Bulletin of the National Clearinghouse for Youth Studies', 1988 v.7 n.1, pp.2-6.

Long-term unemployed youth, by J. Griffith
'Youth Studies and Abstracts: Bulletin of the National Clearinghouse for Youth Studies', 1987 v.6 n.2, pp.16-19.

Community Youth Support Scheme (CYSS) as a labour market program - some models, by J. Punch
'Youth Studies and Abstracts: Bulletin of the National Clearinghouse for Youth Studies', 1987 v.6 n.1, pp.31-36.

Community Youth Support Scheme (CYSS): Past, present and future, by T. Holeywell
'Youth Studies and Abstracts: Bulletin of the National Clearinghouse for Youth Studies', 1986 v.5 n.3, pp.17-20.

Female youth unemployment and delinquency, by C. Alder
'Youth Studies and Abstracts: Bulletin of the National Clearinghouse for Youth Studies', 1986 v.5 n.3, pp.12-16.

Technological change and youth employment prospects: The Western Australian case, by G. Rodan
'Youth Studies and Abstracts: Bulletin of the National Clearinghouse for Youth Studies', 1986 v.5 n.2, pp.18-23.

Are some youth more equal than others? Migrant participation in CYSS (Community Youth Support Scheme), by M. Kabala
'Youth Studies and Abstracts: Bulletin of the National Clearinghouse for Youth Studies', 1986 v.5 n.2, pp.9-11.

The labour market experience of immigrant youth, by M. Kabala
'Youth Studies and Abstracts: Bulletin of the National Clearinghouse for Youth Studies', 1986 v.5 n.1, pp.36-39.

Students as workers: The effects of Big Mac, by E. Reeders
'Youth Studies and Abstracts: Bulletin of the National Clearinghouse for Youth Studies', 1986 v.5 n.1, pp.31-35.

Sick of being unemployed, by G. Easthope and C. Waddell
'Youth Studies and Abstracts: Bulletin of the National Clearinghouse for Youth Studies', 1986 v.5 n.1, pp.18-19.

Ethnic youth jobless in Australia, by E. Della Torre
'Youth Studies and Abstracts: Bulletin of the National Clearinghouse for Youth Studies', 1986 v.5 n.1, pp.14-17.