Employers

We’re here to help you hire more tradeswomen and create a healthier, happier, inclusive, and equitable workplace

Looking for more tradeswomen to join and stay with your workforce? We’re here to help to improve your workplace through our Gender Lens Assessment, our Workplace Diversity Project and our other training and services.

Learn more below!

Attracting and Recruiting Tradeswomen

Employers wishing to find out about attracting and employing tradeswomen to increase the gender diversity in their workforce should contact Sarah Curley at sarahc@twaus.com.au

Training and other services

Consulting Services – Putting plans into action

Supporting organisations to establish and/or implement gender equality action plans,
delivering solutions to suit commercial needs, strategic targets, and contract obligations
(including tender processes, GEAP, WGEA, BEP).

Gender Lens Assessment – what gets measured gets done

Benchmark assessment of workplaces against gender best practice, providing practical
recommendations to boost inclusion and equity within industry workplaces and on sites.

Staff Training – engaging everyone in diversity

A full suite of gender-inclusive virtual or f2f training sessions. Modules include diversity and
inclusion, gender bias, bystander action, recruitment bias, and mental wellbeing.
Facilitated group conversations can also be held, a great next step after training sessions.

Unconscious Bias in Recruitment

Participants are introduced to the concept of unconscious bias, types of bias that affect the recruitment process (such as gender, age, and culture), and encouraged to pinpoint, challenge, and outsmart their unconscious biases and create equity within the organisation.

Leadership Coaching – creating confident leaders

One-on-one sessions provide leaders and supervisors an opportunity to explore the realities of diversity and inclusion in their own roles – from the boardroom to the worksite. Creating leaders, advocates, and allies.

Recruitment Support – creating a pipeline of female talent

Initiatives to broaden recruitment pools and increase female representation. Fresh
strategies and advice to successfully attract and recruit a new audience.

Readymade Programs

We’ve worked with hundreds of companies over the years and our programs work.
They build inclusive workplaces and increase female representation. Talk to us about running a program for your organisation:

Workplace Diversity Program – diverse, inclusive, and mentally healthy workplaces.
Connecting Women to Trades – linking school leavers to a career in trades.
Remade for Trades – our Community Foundation works at community level linking vulnerable and disadvantaged women to a career in trades.

Workplace Diversity Project

Mental health and wellbeing is important to the performance and productivity of you work force. A poor workplace culture will affect your staff’s mental health and wellbeing and can also lead to loss of reputation, reduced staff attraction, low recruitment, affect profits and increase the risk of WorkCover claims.

So, what can we do to improve your staff’s mental health and wellbeing?

Introducing our Workplace Diversity Project.

Together, we’ll help you create a great workplace where all staff members feel accepted, supported, and included. Through the Workplace Diversity Project, your supervisors can become diversity and inclusion leaders, equipped to improve the overall culture and environment of each of your workplaces, prevent mental injuries and improve mental health and wellbeing for frontline workers.

This program was run successfully in over 175 businesses and delivered a 10% increase in mental health and wellbeing across the board. Other positive outcomes included increase diversity in recruitment, improved team management by supervisors and improved staff retention.

Our dedicated project team will provide universal, end-to-end solutions for your organisation, work with your HR team to develop robust policies and procedures, as well as offer one on one mentoring with frontline leaders and access to resources.

Notes about Tradeswomen Australia

• we can work on a one-off fee for service or an ongoing retainer basis to suit your organisations needs

• we are a charity with DGR status

• we are a certified Social Enterprise