GOING ABOVE AND BEYOND - JOEL KASS

Landcare Australia’s Project Hindmarsh in rural Victoria has been a labour of love for many but, for one member of our Timberwolf Planting team, it’s literally been a lifelong commitment.Last week a revegetation project which began nearly 30 years ago was completed, with the final stage of a largely volunteer based project delivered by PeopleIN’s contract tree planting business. And, for Regional Manager for Victoria, Sally Werner, it was a deeply personal experience.In 1996, Project Hindmarsh

Often describes as looking like a giant golf ball perched high on a hill, the Bureau of Meteorology’s rain radar sites are common sites across regional Australia.And while these landscape curiosities might look odd, the work they do is vital and Vision Surveys Queensland is playing an important role as this equipment is maintained and old technology is replaced with new, across Queensland.In the past three years the Vision Surveys Queensland team has delivered a range of services from LiDAR (Lig

Not for Profit, Aged Care and Financial Services - these are the industries with which Perigon Group worked most closely in the in FY24.The recently completed financial year was a successful one for PeopleIN’s professional services recruitment business, with strong placement numbers across a wide range of industries – Property, Retail, Education and Legal among other industries topping the list of sectors in which placements were made.There’s been notable growth in key and emerging sectors but f

VNS Nursing Agency has successfully renewed an important tender which will see it deliver a range of specialist nurses, midwives and support nurses to a major healthcare supplier in Victoria for a further three years.That’s great news for the business, illustrating the value placed on the quality of its service by a client with whom VNS has worked for a number of years.It also highlights an ongoing issue for the health sector across the country. Over more than decade, VNS has built a reputation

Residents and staff at McLean Care have welcomed a group of our international aged care workers to the team at the Mackellar Apex Road centre in Gunnedah, in New South Wales.The five women from Kiribati and Tuvalu, in Australia under the Pacific Australia Labour Mobility (PALM), scheme flew into Tamworth recently and commenced working with the centre’s current residents.An estimated 4.1 million Australians are aged 65 and over, with a high proportion living in regional areas. A shortage of skill

While the rules of the road for our Pacific neighbours can be very different to Australia’s, one business in Mt Cotton is making sure its international workers are safe and reliable drivers in Queensland.Leading poultry producer Golden Cockerel is the host employer to more than 50 workers brought to Australia by PeopleIN's labour solutions business, FIP Group, under the Pacific Australia Labour Mobility (PALM) Scheme. And Golden Cockerel's Safety Manager Danielle Watson says safe driving is just

PeopleIN is pleased to announce the appointment of Tony Peake OAM to the PeopleIN Board as a Non-Executive Director. Tony brings over 25 years of board level experience in various sectors including retail, consumer, education, and government, complementing the PeopleIN board with strong and specialised strategic expertise. As the former Chief Operating Officer of PwC Australia, Tony led the Finance, Technology, Real Estate, Business Services, and Procurement functions. His strategic leadership a

Work ethic, a desire to work with and help others, and the ability to learn new skills quickly, has paid off for an onhire worker from PeopleIN’s labour solutions business AWX.Father of three, David Twaddle, first joined AWX as a labourer on a large solar panel installation project in central Queensland’s Rockhampton. Interviewed for the role by AWX Account Manager Colette Dearing, it was clear David was motivated to create a better future for himself and his family.“David interviewed so well. H

It was just going to be a little job for a couple of months, when I first came back from overseas”.14 years ago Karlee Berg began her career with Tribe Workforce Solutions as an Administration Assistant. Today, after performing every role in between (and often more than one at once!), she’s now the General Manager.“I trained as a beauty therapist and I'd been working overseas, as the day spa manager on cruise ships. It’s a hectic lifestyle and I was pretty burnt out when I got home and needed a

A strategy to build and grow the next generation of leaders for the business was the catalyst for the development and launch of PeopleIN’s Emerging Leaders program in early 2023.The two-year program incorporates a workshop-based curriculum in the first year, focused on business development style, risk and governance, leadership development, client relationship management, and the quality deliverables expected within a talent solutions business.Drawn from 25 brands and eight shared services divis