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Harvest Geelong Launches new Digital Fundamentals Course.
For many jobseekers, underemployed, semi-skilled and those returning to the workforce is daunting. Added to this there is a near and present need for an uplift in digital skills.
Further, The Australian Jobs and Skills Summit referenced digital capability as key capability required for work today. In the Australian Government’s Issues Paper – released 22 August 2022 – the Government reported that 28 per cent of the population are digitally excluded and less than half of professional workers feel competent with handling digital information and problem-solving using data.
After the Summit the Government committed to investment in building digital capacity through a Digital and Tech Skills Compact with Business and Unions.
“Whether you are assisting job-seekers into digitally enabled roles or are seeking a role that integrates with technology there is the need for a base-line skills to access these opportunities,” Maree Herath Harvest Director states.
The Digital Fundamentals Program, powered by HarvestHR has been curated by leading instructional designers on the back of a Victorian State Government Research project, conducted in 2021, that addressed digital deficits and what employers seek today.
Less than 18 months from the release of these findings, Harvest will launch the first of its training courses to address this challenge. The Digital Fundamentals Program addresses the base skills required to access a career that uses devices and technology to perform critical and fundamental, if not the majority, of components of work today.
“The program is multi-module, self-paced and online so that participants use technology while learning how to work with technology. It starts with the very basics, so no one is left behind.” Maree affirms.
Upon completion students will understand devices from personal computer to tablets and smart phones. They will be able to confidently answer the question “What is the Cloud?” and how business operates as well as how work is performed in the Cloud. Then, with the ever-growing adoption of Microsoft 365 as the major business system platform participants can deep dive into Microsoft 365 and its most common apps – Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook and Teams.
The program has been designed so that organisations and their Hiring, On-Boarding and/or IT functions can be assured new employees hit the ground running with technology or those upskilling or progressing from non-tech or low-tech roles to those that incorporate technology can grasp the key concepts and operating systems and an organisation’s IT infrastructure.
The Digital Fundamentals Program will launch on 8th February 2023 in Geelong the home of Harvest’s HQ, at the Novotel at 4pm and will be available for enrolment from March 2023.
All are welcome to attend but must register.
Maree Herath is available for interview. t: 1300 363 128
