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Bridging the Skills Gap
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In this presentation you will hear about the strategies being used with great success to help alleviate skill shortages; employment branding, training and development, mature-age employees, women in the workplace and much more. 

Speaker
Kathy Kostyrko
Title
Bridging the Skills Gap
Venue
AIM ACT Head Office
Date
Wednesday, September 28, 2011 - 5:30pm to 7:30pm


Registration & Networking: 5.30pm - 6pm
Presentation: 6.00pm
Post Networking: 7.00pm


 

There is no doubt that many industry sectors are experiencing a severe shortage of skills — this is already a major organisational concern for both the private and public sectors in Australia and New Zealand.
 
In late 2010 Hays conducted a survey to ascertain what strategies their clients were investing in to bridge current and future skills shortages.
 
Join Kathy Kostyrko, Director of Hays, as she shares the results of this survey, which together with other pieces of research forms the platform for this Hot Topic presentation.
 
In this presentation you will hear about the strategies being used with great success to help alleviate skill shortages; employment branding, training and development, mature-age employees, women in the workplace and much more. Kathy will also discuss what actions you can take to alleviate skill shortages in your workplace, plus practical examples of what works and why.
 

 

Kathy has had a successful career in the recruitment industry spanning the last 26 years. She has been with Hays for 17 of those years, working her way up to Regional Director, with roles either locally based managing their Canberra branch, nationally based in Sydney managing their office support business or internationally setting up their New Zealand operations. Currently Kathy is responsible for all of Hays’ public sector business across Australia.
 
Based in Canberra, Kathy was the first female chairman of the ACT & Regional Chamber of Commerce — a role she has held twice. She was the inaugural Chair of the ACT Committee of the Recruitment & Consulting Services Association, and is currently the Chair of the Canberra Institute of Technology Advisory Council, sitting on the Board of CIT Solutions. Kathy is also a Council Member of the Institute of Public Administration Australia in the ACT, a member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors and a member of the Australian Institute of Management.