Contact Humans Like Us and the Australian Employer Network for Refugee Inclusion if you need tailored advice on your options.
Australia-wide & services for regional employers
Australia-wide
3-month paid internships for mid-career professionals or University students.
Free employment matching service in Victoria, South Australia and Tasmania.
Diversity and inclusion company specialising in customised employer-led training and workforce solutions.
6-12 month full-time paid supported work placements
Creates talent pipelines.
Helps migrants and refugees move from cities to welcoming regional communities, connecting them to employment opportunities.
Work + Stay is a recruitment and settlement social enterprise that supports people and families to find work and community in regional areas.
Online jobs platform for companies looking to recruit talented people from under-represented minorities.
Free app for employers to list vacancies and find job candidates from a migrant or refugee background.
NSW
Sydney
Creates talent pipelines.
3-month paid internships for mid-career professionals or University students.
Diversity and inclusion company specialising in customised employer-led training and workforce solutions.
Free specialised employment matching service for people seeking asylum and looking for work. Employers can post vacancies on a jobs board.
Metroassist’s SkillME program provides employment support for migrants and refugees.
Jesuit Refugee Service’s Employment assistance program supports people seeking asylum and temporary residents find work.
Settlement Services International’s Refugee Employment Support Program supports refugees and people seeking asylum living in Western Sydney, and refugees who live in the Illawarra, to find jobs, training and support.
6-12 month full-time paid supported work placements.
BMRSG supports people seeking asylum to find work.
App for employers to list vacancies and find job candidates from a migrant or refugee background.
Upcoming Jobs Fairs
If you’d like to meet refugee job candidates directly, and have vacancies to fill, the Federal Department for Education, Skills and Employment runs Jobs Fairs throughout the year.
Illawarra
Green Connect offers affordable work placement and labour hire, in Wollongong, Sydney, Illawarra, Shoalhaven and the Southern Highlands.
Settlement Services International’s Refugee Employment Support Program supports refugees and people seeking asylum living in Western Sydney, and refugees who live in the Illawarra, to find jobs, training and support.
ACT and Goulburn
Employers can advertise vacancies for free with the Multicultural Employment Service.
Victoria
Melbourne
Free tailored recruitment services, including pre-screening and post-employment support.
3-month paid internships for mid-career professionals or University students.
Brotherhood of St Laurence, Given the Chance
Tailored recruitment services, including labour hire, long-term, casual and short-term positions, traineeships and internships. 4-part support model includes each employee being appointed a field officer to help navigate the transition to work.
Multicultural Consulting
Staff on demand solutions, providing general seminars alongside intensive one-on-one employment services.
Supports people seeking asylum to find sustainable work, including job matching, onboarding and post-placement support. Employers can advertise vacancies for free on a JobsBoard.
6-12 month full-time paid supported work placements.
Centre for Multicultural Youth’s Employment Empowers Program can connect you with young people from a refugee background who are work ready, and provide post-placement support and a mentor for the young person during their transition into the work environment.
Bendigo
Loddon Campaspe Multicultural Services offer tailored recruitment solutions for local Bendigo businesses, including cultural competency training, adapting induction and workplace practices for a more diverse workforce.
Mildura
Sunraysia Mallee Ethnic Communities Council
Supports people from a refugee background to find work.
Queensland
Brisbane & Logan
Employment matching service, 12- week work placement program.
3-month paid internships for mid-career professionals or University students.
Delivers a range of Commonwealth and Queensland government employment programs, matching job seekers to jobs.
South Australia
AMES Australia offers free tailored recruitment services, including pre-screening and post-employment support.
Western Australia
The Kaleidoscope Mentoring Partnership helps organisations build stronger, more diverse and inclusive teams.
Multicultural Services Centre
Jobs & Skills Centre can help employers looking for advice and assistance with recruitment assistance (including trainees and apprentices), training solutions, workforce planning. Employers can also advertise vacancies on their JobsBoard.
MercyCare
Employment support service helps refugees seeking employment.
More info
A Guide for WA Employers: Supporting access to employment for people from a refugee or asylum seeking background (Deakin University, ANU, Monash University)
Tasmania
Free tailored recruitment services, including pre-screening and post-employment support.
MRC Tas Employment Assistance helps new members of the community become job ready.
Statewide service developing and supporting pathways to employment, education and training for new members of the community, including refugees.
Work readiness programs and support to assist jobseekers.
Northern Territory
Melaleuca Refugee Centre is delivering employment services as part of the Culture: Diversity from the Inside Out program.
Government employment services
Refugees who receive Centrelink payments are also supported by Workforce Australia or, if they receive a disability payment, by JobAccess.
These are funded by the Commonwealth government to provided free and generalised employment services to help people find work.
Some companies provide services to high numbers of refugee job seekers, including APM.
Find out more about government programs.
Work experience: government English language programs
Some refugees participate in the Settlement Language Pathways to Employment and Training (SLPET), which is part of the Adult Migrant English Program (AMEP). SLPET includes a work experience component.
If you can offer work experience to a job seeker, click here to find organisations delivering the SLPET in your State.
Hire a refugee from overseas
Connecting refugees living in Jordan and Lebanon to job opportunities in other countries, including Australia. In partnership with Gateway 2 Talent, Talent Beyond Boundaries works to give refugees a complementary pathway to safety in Australia by finding opportunities to work.