Experience Pays

The workplace is changing because of an ageing population, but there is help available to respond and adapt with strategies and tactics to keep your business growing.

Almost 70% of Queensland employers are already affected by labour and skills shortages. So now is the time to develop age-friendly workplaces and keep older workers in the workforce.

Help for employers looking for ways to recruit, retrain or retain mature-age workers

Help for mature-age people looking to remain in or re-enter the workforce

Employer Guide (PDF, 565 KB)

Download the Smart Workplace Strategy Employer Guide (PDF, 772 KB)

Smart Workplace Strategies (PDF, 772 KB)

Download the Employer Guide (PDF, 147 KB)

Employee Guide (PDF, 147 KB)

Employers looking to recruit, retrain or retain mature-age workers?

Information about the effects of an ageing population on our workforce and strategies and tactics to help employers prosper in a changing workplace is available through:

The Experience Pays Pack and Employer Guide

There is also information available here:

Recruit - attract applicants, update your long-term recruitment strategy, recruitment policies and processes to attract older workers.
Retrain - keep the skills of older employees up to date and suited to your business.
Retain - increase productivity, morale and loyalty among employees by creating safe, flexible working arrangements and promoting the value of experience in your organisation.
The workplace is changing - The ageing population is bringing big changes to the workforce and your business has an opportunity to not only cope with but benefit form these changes.
Workforce planning - prepare your business for the challenges of the changing workforce.
Find some skilled Queenslanders – Government funded jobseeker projects delivered statewide resulting in participants that may be seeking employment and who may already be trained in areas including pre-employment, retail, hospitality or aged care.

Mature-age people looking to remain in or re-enter the workforce?

Information about accessing support to remain in the workforce or find employment is available through:

What are your options as an older worker? (PDF, 168 KB) – An Experience Pays information handbook for mature-age employees ready, willing and able to stay in the workforce. The handbook highlights options people should consider before entering full-time retirement.

There is also information available here:

Skilling Solutions Queensland – Introduced by the Queensland Government, this service provides information about innovative training and retraining opportunities.
Finding a job - How and where to find a job, improve your skills, how to apply for a job, respond to selection criteria and write a resume.
Government funded jobs program - Increase job opportunities and improve your skills through community jobs programs and community employment assistance programs.
Numeracy and literacy issues – The Skilling Queenslanders for Work Community Literacy Program and Centrelink offer language, literacy and numeracy training (non-Queensland Government link) that can help improve speaking, reading, writing and basic maths skills.
Apprenticeships, traineeships and RPL
Find out about apprenticeships and traineeships including mature-age apprenticeships, Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL) and skills recognition
Centrelink (non-Queensland Government link)

Last updated 04 November 2009

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Employers looking to recruit, retrain or retain mature-age workers?

Mature-age people looking to remain in or re-enter the workforce?

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