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Find the digital skills your business needs to thrive 

When Arkeus, a leading producer of cutting-edge autonomous optical solutions, needed tech talent quickly, it found a solution with the Digital Jobs program.

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Digital Jobs upskills mid-career Victorians in cutting-edge digital skills through intensive 12-week courses with leading Victorian education providers. The program also offers local businesses $5,000 of assistance for each 12-week work placement or entry level job offered to a participant.

Arkeus was expanding and Chief Operating Officer Romain Portier knew the company didn’t have the time to go through an extensive hiring process. So, when he heard about the Victorian Government’s Digital Jobs program he realised it could be a great alternative pathway to source digital talent.

“We’ve now taken three Digital Jobs participants on work placements and hired all three,” Romain said.

One participant, Rabab, had been out of the workforce raising her family but Romain saw that her background in software management, her transferrable skills and life experience would prove just as useful to Arkeus as her Digital Jobs training in Project Management.

Rabab was so impressive that Romain soon had her managing bigger projects.

“Taking a Digital Jobs participant on a work placement is a low-cost, low-risk way to test whether someone is a good fit for Arkeus,” Romain said.

“While skills are important, it’s vital to get people with the right attitude as well and Digital Jobs allowed us to find the right person with the right attitude, quickly and cheaply.”

Digital Jobs participants can help Victorian businesses thrive, with their proven track record in the workplace and new digital skills such as AI/machine learning, digital marketing, cyber security or web development.

Find out more at vic.gov.au/digitaljobs or register to attend the next information session on Wednesday 1 May.

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