 We see our role as skills bridge for three industry sectors:
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Arts
- Sport & Recreation
- Retail & Wholesale
- Personal Services
We are determined to make a significant contribution to vocational learning, up-skilling and workplace and workforce development by being an exceptional proactive facilitator between the Services Industries, the government and the community in a highly skilled and flexible South Australian economy.
Service Skills SA has foundation funding from the SA Government through the Department of Further Education Employment Science and Technology (DFEEST).
This foundation funding requires SSSA to provide bipartite advice between industry, community and government stakeholders on skills needs, vocational training and workforce and workplace development.
Our role is seen as one of proactive facilitation creating rapid action to deal with issues and skills shortages.
Key Objectives 2005 to 2008
- Dramatically reduce existing skills shortages and identify and preplan for emerging shortages.
- Improve the availability of user driven, smart delivery, short and affordable skills training.
- Establish obvious vocational career pathways in all sectors to attract and retain employees.
- Dramatically expand access and uptake of commercial and technology skills.
- Improve the pathway of skilled migrants into sector employment.
- Improve access to skills development in regional areas.
- Improve skills recognition and development opportunities for volunteers.
Strategies
In order to fulfil our role as a skills bridge, SSSA will adopt the following strategies.
 Provide our sector communities with a service and projects that they value by focusing on identifying and satisfying the critical skills needs. - Convince industry of the benefit of engaging with us, so we can help create, link and tailor resources and projects to satisfy their business planning needs.
- Rapidly gather, assimilate & communicate relevant information & advice to all parties.
- Provide feedback and advice that drives Government to improve targeted vocational learning.
- Creatively market quality user driven vocational learning products, projects and services.
- Act as a national, state and regional network node to link all parties who need, provide or manage vocational learning.
Specific Goals to June 2006
- Obtain sufficient funding and resources
- Promote existence to our community
- Industry network building
- Preliminary industry needs survey
- Undertake initial reputation building projects
- Review all project funding sources
- Commence drive to reduce skills shortages
- Career pathways work
- Major review of industry needs
- Commence migrant skills work projects
- Airport skills project
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