Creating diversity in your workforce

A powerful session exploring the raft of benefits that flow from creating diversity in your workforce and the support available to help you on this journey.

About Emily

Emily Briffa is a social entrepreneur who believes that business can and should play a part in tackling entrenched social disadvantage.

When Emily moved to Hobart, she noticed Tasmania’s high level of unemployment and left her job as a chef to found Hamlet in 2016.

Hamlet is a registered charity that provides practical work experience, hands-on training and individualised wrap around support to people who face barriers which may prevent them from participating in work and community life, with a focus on people living with disability.

To date Hamlet has provided 42,821 hours of training to 739 people in the community.

About Austrade

The Australian Trade and Investment Commission (Austrade) accelerates the growth of exports, attracts foreign direct investment, leads national tourism policy for the Australian Government, delivers tourism programs and produces Australia’s official tourism statistics. We also promote Australia’s education to the world.

Workforce shortages continue to be a challenge for Australia’s visitor economy. As part of the Choose Tourism program, Austrade is encouraging people to ‘Choose Tourism’ as a career, and to support tourism businesses with workforce challenges. Tourism businesses can benefit from the skills, dedication and productivity improvements that a more diverse workforce brings. Free Australian Government resources can help you to find staff, including resources to help recruit people from under-represented groups such as:

• people with disability (visit JobAccess/employers)
• older Australians (visit Austrade.gov.au/TourismBusiness) and
• younger Australians (visit DEWR.gov.au/transition-work)

with thanks to Austrade - a Tasmanian Tourism Conference partner.