The Construction ISB was set up as a workforce development project for the construction industry in South Australia. The ISB is funded by the Department of Further Education, Employment, Science and Technology.

What is Workforce Development

Workforce development is a broad concept that aims to improve entire industry workforces by an assortment of strategies and techniques including population policy, migration initiatives, health and retirement policies, industrial and human resource policies as well as training policies.

Within the Construction Industry, workforce development includes:

• plan - workforce planning
• attract - attracting people to the industry
• recruit - source, screen, select, induct
• manage - personnel management
• develop - training and experience
• retain - work retention strategies
• return - keeping older workers

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