Empowering Employment

Build Confidence, Clarity, and Practical Tools to Re-Enter the Workforce

Empowering Employment is a supportive online program designed to help women explore career options, identify their strengths, and build practical job-search skills in a welcoming and encouraging environment.

Who this Course is for

Women seeking a safe, encouraging space to build practical skills for returning to work, pivoting careers, or exploring new employment opportunities.

This program focuses on traditional workforce employment and does not include entrepreneurship or business start-ups.

Course Overview

Empowering Employment is an interactive workshop where you learn through discussion, guided activities, and supportive group exploration.

You'll begin with a personal strengths assessment that helps you recognise the value of your lived experience and feel more confident about stepping back into the workforce. Each session blends practical skill-building with an environment that respects your pace and supports you to take action in ways that feel right for you.

Facilitators introduce simple AI tools as enablement supports and weave digital resources throughout the experience. You'll also gain access to our Learning Hub, a collection of templates and tools designed to help you continue building job-search confidence beyond the program.

An extended post-course partnership with an industry recruiter offers personalised resume feedback and may help connect you to suitable job opportunities as you explore roles at your own pace.

What You Will Explore

  • Defining your direction through career goals and job-market insight

  • Identifying strengths and beginning to build a professional identity

  • Using practical tools to create a modern resume and tailored cover letters

  • Preparing for interviews, managing nerves and practising in a supportive mock interview

  • Navigating job options through smart search strategies, mapping networks, and understanding what can be negotiated in a job offer

Empowering Employment

COURSE DETAILS

Duration: 6 Weeks + Extended Post-Program Recruiter Support

Dates: Mondays, 26/10/26 – 30/11/26

Time: 12:00pm – 1:30pm AEST

Format: Online Group Sessions

Session Length: 1.5 Hours Per Week

Cost: Free

Take practical steps towards employment, confidence and future opportunities in a safe and supportive learning environment.

Meet your Course Facilitators

Ally is a counsellor and has worked in the community services sector since 2019. Along with a background in teaching and working with immigrants, Ally has been a fierce advocate for the vulnerable throughout her work in disability and aged care and more recently with the Women’s Resilience Centre.

Ally’s lived FDV experience has launched her conviction to actively champion the cause against family and domestic violence and as counsellor, her approach is both caring, always respectful and grounded in her passion for empowering the vulnerable while never underestimating the fortitude of the human spirit.

Through this program, I was able to secure my first job in Australia. As someone from another country, I found it extremely difficult to gain employment despite a law degree and professional experience. The support I received enabled me to receive essential training in job searching, along with guidance through the interview process.
— Alison, Past Empowering Employment Program Participant

Simone Allan

Meet your Course Facilitators

Ally is a counsellor and has worked in the community services sector since 2019. Along with a background in teaching and working with immigrants, Ally has been a fierce advocate for the vulnerable throughout her work in disability and aged care and more recently with the Women’s Resilience Centre.

Ally’s lived FDV experience has launched her conviction to actively champion the cause against family and domestic violence and as counsellor, her approach is both caring, always respectful and grounded in her passion for empowering the vulnerable while never underestimating the fortitude of the human spirit.

I would recommend this program to any woman looking for support, encouragement and a pathway back into the workforce.
— Kate, Past Empowering Employment Program Participant

Lee-Anne Carson