Businesses recruiting outside the box

vides women’s health well-being and services in the community.

Jai owns and operates Network Detailing and gets vehicles ready for sale at nearby dealerships.

Nearly a decade ago Jhan and Jai made the move to diversify their workforce by employing people with disability and discovered NOVA Employment had untapped talent they could utilise.

“NOVA has supplied us with staff who are well suited to the roles we need to fill,” said Jhan, whose organisation specialises in supporting domestic violence cases.

“The office can be very busy and we need staff and, NOVA’s always there for us,” adds Jhan, who has hired nine staff through NOVA in the past nine years.

JHAN Leach and Jai Shankar are successful local business employers.

Jhan is the Executive Officer of Blacktown Women’s & Girls’ Health Centre (BWGHC) a charity which pro-

BWGHC’s most recent employee from NOVA is Jenna, who works as an Admin Assistant, runs their Oz Harvest Food Drive on Fridays and assists with IT issues.

Network Detailing has also always had a flow of staff from NOVA to wash,