| National Workforce Strategy |
Target full employment over the period until 2027. |
Support realisation of measures of success and key performance indicators against each of the principles. |
| Use data to create transparency and drive Government action |
By 2027, all sector-specific workforce strategies contain detailed consideration and analysis of data on the current and future workforce, including from the National Skills Commission |
- Sectoral strategies are data-driven, with consideration of current and future workforce requirements.
- Ensure workforce actions align with the Digital Government Strategy, where data is captured, analysed, and used to inform design and policy and the APS develops data skills.
- Data transparency is guided by the Closing the Gap Priority Reform Four: Shared access to data and information at a regional level.
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| Skill Australians and focus employment services on employment outcomes |
- Increase the proportion of the 20–34-year-old population with a tertiary qualification (76.2% in 2020).
- Increase the proportion of VET graduates with improved employment status after training (60.6% in 2021).
- By 2027, the proportion of participants in work or study three months after exiting employment services will be:
- 80% for Digital Services
- 60% for Enhanced Services
- 60% for Transition to Work
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- Simplifying, streamlining and rationalising VET qualifications to ensure training products are more fit-for-purpose, leading to higher quality training, improved learner outcomes, and clearer employment pathways.
- Revise the Standards for RTOs to ensure they are clear and outcome-focused. Develop a framework for quality improvement and build the capacity and capability of RTOs, trainers, and assessors to shift from a compliance focus towards excellence.
- Reform VET funding arrangements to drive increased participation in training that is high quality and meets current and emerging needs of industry and learners.
- Support an increase of STEM skills, particularly for women, across the national workforce.
- Reform employment services with Workforce Australia, including better job matching and drawing on data.
- Promoting skilled jobs growth through investment in higher education.
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| Remove barriers and disincentives to work |
- By 2031, increase the proportion of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander youth (15-24 years) who are in employment, education, or training to 67%.
- By 2031, the proportion of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people aged 25-64 who are employed has increased to 62%.
- The workforce participation gap between men and women (aged 15-64) was 7.0 percentage points in February 2022. By 2027, the gap will continue to reduce below this level towards equal workforce participation.
- By 2025, reduce the share of young people, including both young men and women, aged 15-29 who are not in employment, education, or training (NEET) to 10.75% (compared to 12.65% in 2014).
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- Identify and address geographical and regulatory barriers to improve participation and labour force mobility.
- Identify and action opportunities to increase workforce participation of under-represented, disadvantaged, and vulnerable groups of people, including women, people with disability, mature aged, youth indigenous Australians, migrants, and refugees, particularly those on the Workforce Australia caseload.
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| Activate industry to design and drive change |
- From the commencement of Workforce Australia, increase the proportion of registered employers who lodge a vacancy on the employer portal over the four years to 2027.
- Fifty per cent of employers report use of the VET system.
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- Empower industry, through the establishment of Industry Clusters, to manage the end-to -end process from needs identification to skills development and oversight of delivery outcomes to ensure continuous quality improvement.
- Engage industry in the design and delivery of policy and support them to play a central role in training and reskilling
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| Target migration to fill skills and labour gaps |
- Temporary Skilled Visa policy settings address skill shortages and reflect the labour market information from the National Skills Commission
- Labour market outcomes of surveyed skilled and family migrants 18 months after arrival/ visa as reported in the Continuous Survey of Australia’s Migrants:
- employed >70 per cent
- unemployed <10 per cent
- not in the labour force <20 per cent
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- Better targeting of migrant workers to meet labour market needs through skilled migration occupation lists and visa settings.
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