Career agencies/facilitators, employers and individuals should encourage curiosity and the move towards the purposeful pursuit of work. 3. Non-permanent workers only engage in formal structured learning with a specific goal in mind WDA and educational providers to move beyond classrooms to support opportunities to develop integrated practice through work. 4. Learning is driven through, for and by the work that non-permanent workers engage in Funding bodies to ensure stretch assignments as part of the funding requirement. Educational providers to design work into curriculum and delivery. 5. Occupational affordances can enhance learning and development through work that challenges and stretches Adopt a holistic approach to development of the sector to provide for occupational affordances. Support the development of Group Training Companies.3 6. Ongoing work is key to longevity as a non-permanent worker and thus for learning and development opportunities Individual non-permanent workers should constantly seek opportunities. PET providers to design entrepreneurial capability (as part of integrated practice) into curriculum and delivery. Industry masters to induct the NPW into or further develop ways of being (eg shape shifting, knowing the rules of engagement), reading opportunities, and networks. 7. Trajectory rather than traditional notions of career (as many of these workers move across work that has different levels of status and reward at any one point in time) Knowledge of integrated practice, trajectories, motivation and context, what it means for different sectors and how to apply this knowledge should be part of the continuous professional development of career coaches.
5.2. Recommendations for greater broad-based appreciation of non-permanent work 3
Group Training Organisations in Australia recruit potential and/or existing Apprentices under an Apprenticeship/Traineeship Training Contract and place them with ‘host’ employers while they undertake their training and provide a breadth of experience gained in a number of different enterprises. The GTO is the employer of the Australian Apprentice; this arrangement is particularly attractive to small and medium enterprises. See for example, http://www.australianapprenticeships.gov.au/group-training, and http://www.grouptraining.com.au/
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