2025 Girls with Grit – Trade Taster

24 May

What they got back

Fifteen young women rotated through trade worksites across our region one day a week for eight weeks. Hosting employers reported: pre-screened candidates with verified interest, several follow-on work experience placements within 6 months, and direct visibility of young women considering trades who would not otherwise have walked onto their worksite. One participating host has since taken on a Girls-with-Grit graduate as an apprentice.

What other employers can learn from this

Multi-employer cohort tasters are the highest-yield Later-horizon engagement available to small trade businesses. You don't host alone, you don't carry the prep cost alone, and the cohort effect lifts the quality of every participant. Strongly recommended for sole-trader and small-team trade businesses that want pipeline visibility without the overhead of running their own engagement program.

Cristy Houghton

Cristy's unique career has taken her from country NSW to the city lights of Clarendon Street South Melbourne and back again. With an early career in radio as a copywriter and creative strategist, she is now a Jill of all trades as a graphic designer, website builder, blog writer, video editor, social media manager, marketing strategist and more.

In fact, give her any task and this chick will figure out how to do it! Go on, we dare you!

No, really, we DARE you!!

Cristy has won two Australian Commercial Radio Awards (ACRAs) for Best Ad and Best Sales Promotion, and even has an 'Employee of the Year' certificate with her name on it.

Cristy and her husband James have traveled extensively through Russia, China and South East Asia, and have two fur-babies, Sooty (cat) and Panda (puppy). Cristy loves drinking coffee, meeting people to drink coffee, coffee tasting and coffee flavoured cocktails. She also enjoys road trips, TED Talks and watching cat videos on youtube.

http://www.embarketing.com.au