Who we are

The Board of Smart Employment meets quarterly and is kept up to date monthly by the CEO by way of email.  The role of the board as a collective is to direct the CEO and set the parameters in which to run the company.  Listed below are what the board expects from the CEO to run an effective business.

· To develop a plan for the future for Smart Employment Solutions. The plan should include what is to be achieved and how it is to be achieved.

· Approve the budget

· Set priorities

· Hold the Chief Executive Officer accountable for carrying out the plan

· Act as a sounding board for ideas

· Monitor the implementation of the plan

· Revise the plan as appropriate

· Determine organisational policy

· Ensure adequate financial and statistical records are kept

· Ensure adequate financial resources are available

· Ensure systems are in place so that the service operates by best practice

· Conform to the relevant legal requirements

In general the Board does not deal with operational issues, but rather questions policy. In general, operational issues are dealt with by the Chief Executive Officer.

• In business for over thirty five years – in that time we have placed more than 20,000 graduates in the workforce, with 97% continuing on in full time employment
• We established a new RTO in 2010 – The Australian Academy of Business, training in all facets of Business Administration and Finance
• In 2010 one of our Automotive apprentices won the Ford Apprentice of the Year
• 2008 saw Todd McNeill, an apprentice Carpenter completing his full 4 years of training with Smart Employment Solutions, awarded Gold Coast Master Builders Apprentice of the Year
• We were a registered RTO, The Australian Institute of Technology, with over 1,200 apprentices and trainees enrolled in nationally accredited qualifications
• In 2006 we were one of the few successful companies nationally to win an Australian Government contract to deliver the Youth Pathway Programs
• Smart Employment Solutions has won the Gold Coast Master Builders award for Apprentice Employer of the Year 6 times
• Smart Employment Solutions apprentices have won the award for the Master Builders Gold Coast Apprentice of the Year 6 times
• In 2005, in conjunction with Rotary International, we built demountable housing for shipment to the Solomon Islands and sent our students to teach the local people the skills required to enable them to erect the houses and maintain them
• We also donated demountable and extendible houses to Vanuatu to help with their slum housing problem
• In 2005 Smart Employment Solutions was the employer of the Master Builders Australian Apprentice of the Year
• In 2005 we provided Community Scholarships to the value of $200,000 for vocational education and training
• In 2005 the Australian Government announced four successful organisations to manage the delivery of New Apprenticeships throughout Australia. We were the ONLY private company in the list
• We have won grants and government contracts over the past thirty years of almost $5 million in recurrent funding from the Queensland Government
• We have received over $14 million in commencement grants for 15,000 apprentices and trainees
• We have earned over $6 Million in transition training for apprentices and trainees from Certificate 2 to Certificate 3
• We received $1,500,000 Federal funds contribution to help establish a skills centre at Nerang
• We have won over $12 million in contracts for the delivery of training
• The group has always been at the vanguard of the training industry. We have been listed as a benchmark in the training industry for our innovative training methodology that saw us take 16 young “recalcitrant” students and through live work training, teach them the skills that enabled them to build a 2 storey, 4 bedroom home that sold on the open market for in excess of a quarter of a million dollars
• We have been awarded Employer of the Year status by the Queensland State Government for our consistent achievements
• We have partnered with one of the largest property developers in the region to construct over 20 homes as part of an accelerated skills training venture. This was the first time private enterprise had entrusted a training organisation and its students to perform on a real time, real cost basis. It was an outstanding success and paved the way for what would become known as “on-the-job training”, which is now the standard
• In 1996 we forged a 5 year agreement with Griffith University for a joint initiative in training highly skilled graduates for the burgeoning Hospitality industry.
• That same year, we linked with Conrad Jupiters Casino and the Professional Chefs Association in launching a “Kids in the Kitchen” campaign to encourage young people to seriously consider a career in the fast growing Tourism industry
• Our commitment to good corporate citizenship is evidenced by the number of charities and community groups we have assisted in a practical sense through the construction of homes and administration centres for the Endeavour Foundation and Rosie’s Mission for Youth – a group focused on the plight of street kids