In 2021, Agnico Eagle Community Partnerships sponsored the four Loddon Campaspe Local Learning and Employment Networks (LLEN) to create activities that address the barriers our young people face transitioning to work. 

The sponsorship followed our youth-led research (How Work Works) that showed young people in our region do not get the careers education or work readiness activities they need. This includes opportunities to meet employers, undertake vital work experience, and explore accurate local labour market information. 

In 2022, we created a Careers Explorium to address these issues. It is a framework of 16 resources research shows are associated with young people being work ready. 

We have populated the Careers Explorium with evaluated programs/activities that can be modified for different communities across our region. We then set about creating new resources to fill gaps. Two of these curated programs have since won awards. 

Over the past three years we have: 
  • Created our framework of the experiences young people need to transition to work. 
  • Curated high-quality evaluated careers resources, that can be used across the region, and that put employer’s efforts where they are most needed. 
  • Further influenced school-to-work reform through youth-led research into pressing labour market issues, such as why young women don’t take up the higher paid, male-dominated trades and work readiness (briefing 1000 decision-makers along the way). 
  • Created a community-owned My Local Jobs website that scrapes all jobs for the region so employers can find young people, and young people can find the jobs. ​
We are now incorporating the Careers Explorium activities into projects that will get our young people to their best jobs while addressing our critical skills shortages. 

Victorian LLENs are community-governed not-for-profits and we cannot do this work alone. Please get in touch if you can help. 

Please join us in helping every young person in our region get to their best job!
For more information please contact Jerri Nelson on 0427 952 042 or email [email protected]
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​children and young people on the lands on which we now work.