Check out GoVolunteer to find opportunities in your State.
Activities can include helping refugees improve their English, prepare resumes, provide career support, practice their interview skills, or get their driver’s licence.
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Become an accredited career coaching, and coach a refugee job seeker as part of your training. Hear their story.
Mentor professional refugees and skilled migrants to help them find work in their field of expertise. Participate in mock interviews to help job seekers improve their interview skills.
Mentor emerging entrepreneurs from a migrant or refugee background.
Volunteer as a job ready mentor in the Empowered to Work program, help in the kitchen / delivery team of House of Welcome catering or as a Greenlight Movement mentor to help a job seeker learn to drive.
Dress for Work, a program of Metro Assist, provides professional business attire to help men make a good impression at job interviews.
The Asylum Seekers Centre's Employment Assistance Service assists people who are seeking asylum (on bridging visas with work rights) to find work, through relationships with like-minded employers. The Service relies on volunteer job advisors to provide one-on-one support and coaching.
Regional Opportunities Australia
Mentor refugees preparing to relocate from city to regional areas.
Dress for Success Sydney improves the employability of women in need in NSW by providing, free of charge, professional clothing, a network of support, and career development tools to help women achieve self-sufficiency. Volunteer as a a stylist or career coach.
University of Sydney Refugee Language Program
Volunteer once a week for a one-to-one tutoring session to help a refugee with their English conversation, technology, CVs and how to find a job.
Volunteer with the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre’s corporate volunteering or Women’s Empowerment Program
Volunteer with Deakin University’s Centre for Refugee Employment, Advocacy, Training and Education (CREATE) Careers Clinic as a professional mentor to a University-qualified job seeker. Careers Clinic
Volunteer with AMES Australia as a professional mentor to a job seeker
Volunteer with SisterWorks by sharing your experiences and expertise as a business mentor or teacher in the sewing room, kitchen, shop, marketing.
Volunteer to mentor budding entrepreneurs in the Brotherhood of St Laurence’s Stepping Stones program or young job seekers in the Creating Futures for Youth Program.
Volunteer to mentor a newly-arrived young person
Volunteer with SisterWorks by sharing your experiences and expertise as a business mentor or teacher in the sewing room, kitchen, shop, marketing.
Volunteer to help with the LCMS employment program.
Volunteer with Multicultural Australia to provide job seeking support, or help refugees learn the English they’ll need to become ready for work.
Volunteer with Access to help refugees building a new life in Logan. For example, as a Licence 2 Learn volunteer, you can help a disadvantaged young person to obtain their driver’s licence, to widen their employment options and help them gain independence.
The Kaleidoscope program connects skilled and professional newcomers with mentors in their professional field.
Welcome to Australia: Welcoming Careers
Volunteer as an employment mentor
Volunteer with MRC Tas Employment Assistance to help new members of the community become job ready.
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.
(for men, in Sydney)