Develop your team, grow your business

Who does workforce planning help? 

Workforce planning is incredibly useful for businesses who are ready to: 

• Explore growth and expansion

• Respond to changes in staffing
   

• Start planning for the future

The right advice on planning and building your tech workforce

Industry Workforce Advisors have been established under the Good people. Good jobs: Queensland Workforce Strategy 2022–2032.

Your ACS Industry Workforce Advisor can help you:

• Develop a plan for your tech workforce

• Identify workforce challenges, and suggest options to address them
   

• Connect with relevant Queensland programs and funding, industry-based initiatives and grant funding, and Australian Government wage subsidies and employer incentives

Helping you increase your talent pool 

With tech skills in high demand, it can be hard for smaller businesses to attract tech talent. Your ACS Industry Workforce Advisor can help you identify and develop recruitment strategies to expand your pool of potential applicants. These may include considering diverse or underrepresented groups, and other potential talent sources (e.g. skilled migration).

Grants and incentives to help you grow your business

There are many resources out there to help you develop your workforce. The key is to find out which ones are relevant to you.

Your ACS Industry Workforce Adviser can help you: 

• Identify workforce-related grants and incentives 

• Connect with relevant Queensland programs and funding, industry-based initiatives and grant funding, and Australian Government wage subsidies and employer incentives
   

• Obtain relevant and useful information from Business Queensland

They can also refer your business to the Workforce Connect Fund for new and innovative human resource (HR) solutions.

Workforce Connect Fund – Human Resources Support Grants provide funding to small businesses with an immediate need for new and innovative human resources (HR) solutions to support their business.