Resource For Employers

Discover tools, tips, and guidance designed to empower Redlands Coast employers to hire locally, access training and grants, and build a skilled, diverse team.

Latest Tips & Insights

Upskill your workforce and streamline hiring with practical employer resources including training, workshops, templates and checklists.

Who Is the Redlands Regional Jobs Committee?

Workforce Diversification: Why it Matters in Today’s Economy

Unlock Your Career Potential By finding the perfect mentor

Transdev Partners with Redlands Regional Jobs Committee

Top 5 resources you need when starting your new business

The benefits of utilising apprenticeships and traineeships for your business

Support for small businesses wanting to secure skilled staff

Latest How To Guides

Step-by-step guides to help you hire locally, onboard well, train staff, and retain a skilled workforce.

How To Create an Inclusive Workplace

Learn how to create an inclusive workplace with our guide, supporting Redlands Coast employers to attract and retain diverse talent, strengthen teams and build a future-ready workforce.

How to Conduct Effective Interviews

Discover how to conduct effective interviews with our guide, helping Redlands Coast employers choose the right candidates, streamline recruitment and build stronger teams.

How to navigate the recruitment process

Step through the recruitment process with our guide, designed to help Redlands Coast jobseekers apply with confidence, impress employers and secure meaningful career opportunities.

How to Become an Employer of Choice

Learn how to become an employer of choice with our guide, helping Redlands Coast businesses attract, engage and retain top talent while building a thriving workplace culture.

Latest Documents

Ready-to-use job ad templates, interview guides, onboarding packs, and compliance checklists to streamline hiring.

RJC Comms Plan 2024

Employers Guide to Work Experience

Work experience – Student Record

Employer checklist & student induction

Student confidentiality agreement

Work placement weekly template

School to work programs FACT SHEET

Workforce Diversification Tip Sheet

2025 Redlands Coast Snapshot

Onboarding 101 A Simple Checklist for Redlands Employers

Latest Videos

Hear from local employers and industry experts sharing advice, insights, and opportunities.

Who Is the Redlands Coast Regional Jobs Committee?

The Redlands Coast Regional Jobs Committee (RJC) is the local connector helping our community access real career pathways. We bring businesses, schools, training providers and jobseekers together to create opportunities, strengthen industry links and support a future-ready workforce. Our work is built on place-based solutions, tailored to the needs, priorities and opportunities of the Redlands Coast. This video highlights the people and partners who are helping create those connections and outcomes.

2025 HR, Legal & Wellbeing Event

This event was designed to equip local business owners and managers with the tools and insights to lead confident, compliant, and healthy workplaces.

In Industry Spotlight Hospitality & Tourism

Students spend a day inside real Redlands hospitality and tourism venues, meeting employers, exploring back-of-house, and hearing genuine career stories. The RJC removes barriers like transport so young people can discover local pathways, gain confidence and even land jobs ahead of Brisbane 2032.

HR, Legal & Wellbeing Event Panel Q&A

Highlighting our HR, Legal and Wellbeing Q&A panel, where local experts shared practical advice to help Redlands Coast employers build stronger, compliant and supportive workplaces.

Des Kerr People and Culture Consulting

Des Kerr is a people and culture consultant drawing on decades in retail, pharmacy and HR to help small businesses with practical support, stronger leadership, better communication and healthier, engaged workplaces across the Redlands region.

Ben Schefe McCarthy Durie Lawyers

Ben Schefe is a sharp workplace law specialist from McCarthy Durie Lawyers who helps businesses navigate performance management with clarity, confidence and compliance while keeping teams protected, prepared and on the right side of Fair Work.

Dr Tom Hannan Evolve Wellbeing Psychology

Focusing on psychological safety, this session unpacks stress, burnout and absenteeism, and shows leaders how to model healthy habits, build open communication and use EAP support so teams feel safe, supported and equipped to thrive.

RJC Top Trade Talent Event

A dynamic pathway event connecting top young trade talent with local employers. Students dive into hands-on experiences, real conversations and genuine opportunities, gaining confidence, industry insights and direct apprenticeship leads that spark clear, exciting next steps in their careers.

Tina Pholi, Industry Workforce Advisor – Manufacturing Skills Queensland

Tina Pholi highlights the real opportunities shaping modern manufacturing, breaking old stereotypes and showcasing the innovation, career pathways and growth happening across Queensland. A sharp, future-focused look at why manufacturing matters for the next generation.

Useful Links

Quick access to trusted resources and organisations to support your career journey.

Improve the gender diversity of your business

Financial support for hiring

How to write a great business profile

How to write a great job ad

Hiring your next employee

Workforce Australia Online

Find a provider

Jobs Queensland Workforce Planning Connect Workbook

A practical resource for micro business and small enterprises to build a workforce plan in full or to focus on key activities to support specific workforce needs.

Resource For Employers

Latest Tips & Insights

Latest How To Guides

How To Create an Inclusive Workplace

How to Conduct Effective Interviews

How to navigate the recruitment process

How to Become an Employer of Choice

Latest Documents

RJC Comms Plan 2024

Employers Guide to Work Experience

Work experience – Student Record

Employer checklist & student induction

Student confidentiality agreement

Work placement weekly template

School to work programs FACT SHEET

Workforce Diversification Tip Sheet

2025 Redlands Coast Snapshot

Onboarding 101 A Simple Checklist for Redlands Employers

Latest Videos

Who Is the Redlands Coast Regional Jobs Committee?

2025 HR, Legal & Wellbeing Event

In Industry Spotlight Hospitality & Tourism

HR, Legal & Wellbeing Event Panel Q&A

Des Kerr People and Culture Consulting

Ben Schefe McCarthy Durie Lawyers

Dr Tom Hannan Evolve Wellbeing Psychology

RJC Top Trade Talent Event

Tina Pholi, Industry Workforce Advisor – Manufacturing Skills Queensland

Useful Links

Improve the gender diversity of your business

Financial support for hiring

How to write a great business profile

How to write a great job ad

Hiring your next employee

Workforce Australia Online

Find a provider

Set up the apprenticeship or traineeship

Steps to employ an apprentice or trainee

Employer obligations

Finding and hiring staff

Leadership and managing staff

Hiring and recruitment

Your responsibilities as an employer

Find your apprentice

Workforce Evolve

4 ways to find the employee you really want

The importance of keywords in job ads

Master your Standout Job Ad

Webinar: How to write better job ads

How to write a job ad like a copywriter

Why candidates aren’t applying for your job

Are candidates seeing your job ad? Make these changes

Make sure your job ad is complete with the job ad checklist

5 simple things to include in your job ad to boost applications

Use the best job ad, find the best people

Working with new parents

Employing mature aged people

Employing people with disability

Employing CALD people

Employing Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples

Equal opportunity and diversity