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Apprenticeships for Growth

How Skills Investment Can Drive Australia's Economy

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How Skills Investment Can Drive Australia's Economic Recovery 

'Apprenticeships for Growth'
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WPC Group and NextGen Jobs, together with a group of community enterprises, help young people unleash their individual potential through supporting their journey into skilled employment and rewarding careers.
Along with charitable enterprises the Skilling Australia Foundation, Future Gen Foundation and an international youth skills and employment policy advisory arm, WPC Group and Next Gen Jobs consult and advise business and government on the development of work-based learning initiatives in Australia and internationally.

‘Why Employers Should Look Beyond COVID-19 to Build Their Workforce’

Employers should take a long-range view, especially in times of crisis. By Nicholas Wyman, business.com writer | Jun 24, 2020 It's a bumpy road to a post-COVID-19 recovery. Countries that have declared themselves free from the coronavirus are trying to snap their economies back into action and fend off the dreaded second wave. They offer some insight into what lies ahead for the U.S. and what we are already dealing with: paralyzing business uncertainty, disrupted global supply chains and school education, food insecurity, erupting inequalities, and shifts in trading partners. And … [Read More...] about ‘Why Employers Should Look Beyond COVID-19 to Build Their Workforce’

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Strategic talent development: a skilled, agile, and diverse workforce 

Our visionary CEO, Nick Wyman,
has been doing this for 30 years

WPC Group and NextGen Jobs collaborate with enterprising businesses, nonprofits, and governments on growing pipelines of top-notch talent to meet dynamic workforce needs. Our partnerships increase financial performance and produce meaningful economic impact for the community and beyond.

Nick and his team
make it happen

The WPC Group and NextGen Jobs teams work with more than 750 people, 300 employer partners and 15,500 apprentices in 40 occupations.

FUTURE FORWARD

A jobs revolution is upon us

To ensure businesses and whole industries can meet the demands for skilled labor,
we need to throw out models that no longer work. We must abandon old assumptions and embrace new ways of
thinking - including what a successful educational and career path look like. All it takes is a shift in thinking.

ONE OF A KIND

WPC Group and NextGen Jobs are constantly rebooting their methods for fulfilling your talent needs in high demand industries like information technology, 3-D printing, computer programming, automotive, logistics, and high-tech manufacturing.

BLAZING THE TRAIL

Your company has a vision and long-term goals. WPC Group and NextGen Jobs are expert at taking you there. Our talent development models produce leading-edge strategies and solutions aimed at building pipelines of skilled workers.

EXPANSIVE SOLUTIONS

With dynamic companies leading the way, we help local talent and whole communities embrace and leverage automation and big data to become highly productive in the modern workplace. WPC Group and NextGen Jobs solutions are high impact.
No Formulas Here
While we have loads of experience and a track record
packed with substance, our approach is elastic.
Employers' needs evolve.


WPC Group and NextGen Jobs evolve along side you

Practical strategies backed by timely research

WPC Group and NextGen Jobs inform their extensive practice in skilling up workforce and local economies with a significant body of research, analysis, and education policy consulting, guided by, and deeply aware of, what works and doesn’t work in talent development.

Nick Wyman is a globally respected speaker and author of a myriad of publications on applying real-world solutions to challenges companies and communities face in closing the skills gap.

Our international team knows who is doing what and where around the world.


Information sharing and collaboration are at our core

It's all about synergy

We offer an enlightened approach
to advancing an organisation’s business strategy.

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Publications

‘Job U: Find Your Path To A Successful Carer in a Tough Job Market’
by Nicholas Wyman

‘Job U – How to Find Wealth and Success by Developing the Skills Companies Actually Need‘  (US Edition) quickly shot to #1 on the Amazon Hot New Releases in Job Hunting and Career Guides. It has been awarded Best Business Careers book in the International Book Awards and won USA Best Book Awards, Business: Careers category.

Get ready to relearn everything you thought you knew about what a successful career path looks like.

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