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In 2022-23, Jobs Queensland published 10 research reports and resources to support policy makers, regions and industry plan for the future of work in Queensland. All reports are available on our website. This year, we co-designed and funded Queensland’s first workforce planning micro-credential. We have also provided more than $2 million to support innovative workforce planning solutions in the Health and Community services, Timber, Marine, Aviation, Water, and Food and Beverage industries.

The Palaszczuk Government’s new Grow Your Own program is ensuring key industries in the regions remain competitive – with ready-access to suitable training programs to attract new workers and upskill existing workers. The program will support the delivery of comprehensive workforce plans to nurture Bundaberg’s regional industry workforces.

The Palaszczuk Government’s new Grow Your Own program will support the delivery of comprehensive workforce plans in Cairns to ensure key industries in the region remain competitive – with ready-access to suitable training programs to attract new workers and upskill existing workers.

Minister for Education Grace Grace has announced a second round of Trade to Teach Internship Program to place 30 new Industrial Technology and Design (ITD) teachers in Queensland state school classrooms over the next four years.

The new data is in, and we can reveal that by 2025-26, a whopping 2.9 million people will be employed in Queensland – that’s an increase of 207,000 workers (7.6%) since 2021-22.

Jobs Queensland is backing industry-led action to meet the future demand for workers in the Health and Community Services Sector Our latest Anticipating Future Skills Series 4 data projects that an additional 68,500 people will be employed in the sector by 2025-26.

The Queensland Government is seeking passionate community representatives to participate in the upcoming series of Gold Coast Community Forums.

Jobs Queensland is committed to ongoing regional engagement to ensure our work supports the needs of regional and remote communities. I had the opportunity to represent JQ to more than 150 regional champions at the National Regional and Economic Development Summit in Toowoomba on 26-27 July 2023.

Findings from a multi-year research project into Queensland’s National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) workforce were released on 25 May 2023. The Strengthening Queensland’s NDIS Workforce 2022 report is the final in a series of three research reports examining the state of the NDIS workforce across Queensland.

The projects focus on supporting First Nations people, young people and those from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds to find work across the sector including in aged care and community mental health.

Jobs Queensland’s Anticipating Future Skills Series Four headline employment projections over the five-year period to 2025-26 have been released today. The employment projections reiterate Queensland’s strong employment, with almost 207,000 additional workers projected to be employed in Queensland between 2021-22 and 2025-26.

Queensland’s unprecedented workforce demand has brought into focus the need to connect, educate and attract the right people into the right jobs.

Helping small and medium sized business owners and managers develop an agile, flexible workforce plan is the aim of a free seven week course underway at the Caboolture and University of the Sunshine Coast’s (UniSC) Sippy Downs campuses .

We’ve just passed the one-year mark since the Queensland Workforce Summit. This Summit saw key stakeholders brought together from across Queensland, including government, industry leaders, economic and workforce experts, thought leaders and change makers, to collaboratively work together to address current and future workforce challenges.

We were pleased to officially launch the Queensland Care Consortium (QCC) on 9 March. The QCC is a partnership between Jobs Queensland, CheckUP Australia, Community Services Industry Alliance (CSIA), Queensland Council of Social Service (QCOSS) and The Services Union to support the development of the Health and Community Services sectors’ workforce.

The Palaszczuk Government has chartered new territory putting $750,000 in grants funding on the table in 2022-23 for not-for-profit community organisations, industry organisations, an enterprise or group of enterprises to design and implement projects to meet the gaps in local workforce planning and development for these sectors.

An investigation of the labour force and skills implications of the rollout of the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) has actively informed the second statewide report, Strengthening Queensland’s NDIS Workforce.

Jobs Queensland’s Workforce Planning Connect resources are set to be transformed into a short course available to all Queensland businesses through the University of the Sunshine Coast.

The Palaszczuk Government has partnered with the University of the Sunshine Coast to develop a Workforce Planning Course for business owners and managers. It follows the successful Business Planning Course, also developed by the University of the Sunshine Coast with support from the Queensland Government.

From a detailed database of employment projections to research into the challenges facing female apprentices, JQ has led the way in the jobs, skills, training and employment research space in 2022. Our work this year has supported the capacity and capability development of several industries across Queensland’s growing workforce and supported the development of the Queensland Workforce Strategy.

Jobs and skills are the talk of the town, with the release of the Queensland Government’s Good people. Good jobs: Queensland Workforce Strategy 2022-2032, and the establishment of Jobs and Skills Australia. Queensland’s economy is on the rise as the effects of the pandemic ease, and Jobs Queensland predicts we will have more jobs, and not enough people to fill them.

In 2022-23, Jobs Queensland will deliver a number of projects under the Annual Work Program that support its strategic objectives of: fostering a skilled and productive workforce for the changing economy, inclusive growth and jobs of the future enabling Queensland industries and communities to strengthen skills, capabilities and resilience strengthening the state’s vocational education and training (VET) system.

As the trusted authority on Queensland’s future skills and workforce needs, Jobs Queensland is helping Queensland stay one step ahead of a changing economy and labour market.

The versatility of Jobs Queensland’s Anticipating Future Skills Series has been highlighted at several recent events, showcasing employment projections to schools at the Principal’s Conference 2022 and the Health Gateway to Industry Schools Forum 2022 last month.

Jobs Queensland went global in September, through a collaboration with the Department of Tourism Innovation and Sport and international thought-leader Gary A. Bolles.

The Queensland Farmers’ Federation (QFF) and the Rural Jobs and Skills Alliance (RJSA) partnered with Jobs Queensland and the Queensland Government to deliver the Queensland Agworkforce Summit earlier this month.

The Queensland Agriculture Industry Workforce Plan 2022-2027 will help attract, train and retain workers in Queensland’s agriculture industry over the next five years. The workforce plan, developed in partnership with the Queensland Farmers’ Federation and in collaboration with the Rural Jobs and Skills Alliance, covers the current and emerging workforce needs of the grazing, horticulture, cropping and aquaculture agribusiness sectors.

Attracting, training and retaining workers in Queensland’s agriculture industry is the focus of a five-year plan launched by Minister for Employment and Small Business and Minister for Training and Skills Development Di Farmer today.

Jobs Queensland hosted webinars in November that provided overviews of Jobs Queensland’s Lifelong learning: The foundation of future work report and Future work for small business: Skills, capabilities and potential report.

Jobs Queensland and Queensland Farmers’ Federation (QFF) are preparing a five-year plan to respond to the major issues experienced by the state’s agriculture industry while anticipating future workforce demand.

Advanced manufacturing is a journey. It is supported by technology and underpinned by a skilled workforce that is agile and innovative. The industry needs to nurture a culture that embraces change and diversity.

This year, Jobs Queensland released a number of reports to support the capacity and capability development of a number of industries across the Queensland workforce. Each report, although with a different focus, was an important contribution to meeting key skills and workforce priorities for Queensland, and in supporting our long-term economic recovery.