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What if your business could change the life of a local young person and meet the challenge of finding good labourers?
Springboard managing director Gary Diprose is inviting businesses in the North Rodney area to breakfast on Friday, June 21 to hear about a partnership opportunity to achieve just that.
“We want to get businesses and Springboard working together to pipeline young people into jobs,” Gary says. “We want to avoid youth being idle and associated negative outcomes by equipping them with skills and mentorship in jobs,” he says.
“The types of employers we are looking for are hospitality, retail like Mitre 10, The Warehouse or supermarkets, building trades, and even horticulture, like vineyards. We want a good representation of labour employers in the area to attend.”
Gary says businesses stand to gain employees who are backed by a reputable organisation that will continue to have a mentoring relationship with the young people.
“We know there are stories of young workers not turning up, but our kids are eager to work. Sometimes all they need is someone like us in their corner.”
Snells Beach’s Kaelib Newey, 23, has started an apprenticeship in civil infrastructure working on the Puhoi to Warkworth motorway, along with two other Springboard youths.
“At the moment, we are finishing the pour for the first columns for the bridges at the Puhoi end of the motorway. We build wooden framing and then pour concrete around reinforcing steel mesh,” Kaelib says.
“So far working on site has been good, and everyone on the team has been friendly and great to work with. I’ve learned heaps in the short time I’ve been here, and as construction finishes I should be able to move onto other sites and build more.”
Springboard’s business breakfast will take place at their premises at 58 Hamatana Road at 7am, and Gary assures attendees that it will finish by 8.15am to allow them to get to work on time.
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