Skills and workforce priorities: hearing directly from businesses

Wednesday 2 July 2025 - 11:00am AEST

Our June webinar looked at the big picture of skills and workforce shortages - part 2 will go deeper into the daily experience of businesses.

Skills and workforce shortages are having a significant impact on businesses across Australia.

Our June webinar focused on the big picture of how skills and workforce shortages are impacting businesses, both nationwide and across regions. It highlighted that a key priority for the incoming Federal Government must be to address chronic skills and labour shortages, in partnership with industry and a broad range of other stakeholders.

This webinar is the second in a series of two webinars on this topic. It will go deeper on these issues, based on the direct experiences and perspectives of businesses that are dealing with these issues on a daily basis. Each of these businesses will highlight:

• How skills and workforce shortages are impacting the operations of their business
• How they are minimising the impacts of these shortages and their advice to other businesses facing similar challenges
• The steps that governments and the education and training system can take to address these shortages.

Hosted by Ai Group Centre for Education and Training’s Executive Director, Dr Caroline Smith, with guest speakers including Michael Asmar, Senior Manager – MSC Transformation People Lead, Mondelez Australia and Samantha Smith, Human Resource Manager, The Drake Group.