Open to all – Hyphen Library

24 May

What they got back

City of Wodonga partners with NELLEN as a managed-placement employer. Students are matched by interest to council departments (engineering, planning, parks, community programs) and to Hyphen (library, gallery, community programming). Outcomes: visible regional employer leadership; cumulative relationships with local schools that feed into council cadetships and traineeships; a workforce that increasingly arrives already knowing how council functions.

What other employers can learn from this

Local government, large not-for-profits and community-services employers often have the same internal complexity that makes direct-from-school work experience hard to coordinate. The managed-placement model solves that complexity once, at NELLEN's end, so the employer simply hosts. Council partnerships also send a powerful signal across the regional employer ecosystem — visible council investment in grow-your-own makes it easier for private employers to follow.

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