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The National Group Training Awards Presentation and Dinner took place on Friday 19 April 2013 in Brisbane. The awards followed the Group Training National Conference, at which government leaders and industry experts joined with the employers of more than 35,000 apprentices and trainees to discuss Australia’s future skills and training needs. WPC Group Apprentice, Sevag Parseghian and Trainee, Jenna Hays were both nominated for awards. Winner of WPC Group’s National Indigenous Australian Apprentice of the Read more…

WPC Group’s successful Shake-a-Leg program hosted an Indigenous Careers Day on February 19th at the Melbourne City Bowls Club in Flagstaff Gardens. The event gave current host employers, potential host employers and indigenous job seekers the opportunity to meet and mingle within afriendly and relaxing environment. The job seekers were able to register with WPC Group and Shake-a-Leg, which enabled them to check out all current vacancies and to speak to ‘real employers’ about the Read more…

The 2013 CEO Cook Off hosted by Qantas and OzHarvest was a great success! WPC Group CEO Nicholas Wyman teamed up with Celebrity Chefs including Matt Moran, Maggie Beer, Poh Ling Yeow, Adam Liaw, Neil Perry and Pete Evans at the Cathedral Square in Sydney. The purpose of the event was to raise awareness and much needed funds to assist Australians facing challenges in the areas of food security, homelessness and youth in crisis. The Read more…

Congratulations to Shake-A-Leg for winning the Northern Indigenous Employment (NIE) Business Recognition Awards at a Ceremony held at the Hume Global Learning Centre on Friday 26th October 2012. The awards are an annual celebration of Indigenous employment in Melbourne’s northern region – home to the second highest Aboriginal population in Victoria. The awards aim to recognise six businesses which have shown best practice in employing and training Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander (ATSI) people, particularly Read more…

Gayleen was a runner up in the New South Wales Training Awards, Indigenous Apprentice of the Year category at the Gala Event which was held last Friday night at the Shangri-La Hotel, the Rocks. Gayleen was lucky enough to be presented with an certificate for being a finalist in the category by the Hon Peter Garrett AM MP, Minister for School Education, Early Childhood and Youth.