Government Initiatives

Victorian Skills Pledge

The Victorian Skills Pledge is a key initiative under the government’s Securing Jobs for Your Future – Skills for Victoria policy (click here), and is a voluntary commitment by businesses to improve their business through appropriate upskilling of their employees.

Taking the Victorian Skills Pledge is open to businesses of all sizes in the private, public and community sectors. It can be done quickly and simply through the online sign-up facility on the Skills Victoria website.

Skills for Growth

Skills for Growth: the Workforce Development Program provides a team of independent specialists who will work with you – free of charge – to identify your strategic business aims and objectives.

Further information is available on the Business Victoria website (click here).

Apprentices & Trainees

The Victorian Government and the Australian Government provide a range of incentives and assistance to support individuals and businesses with the uptake and successful completion of apprenticeships and traineeships.

 The Skills Victoria website (click here) has further details.