Helping you thrive by enhancing your Employability Skills

When you join Becoming a Worker, you will learn to upskill and develop capacities that will help you land a job. The Becoming a Worker program covers multiple learning areas including employment, independence, and self-awareness.

What You Get

During the duration of the course, you can learn the following:

An ability to capture and record critical information about your development
How to develop a clear road map of progress
An ability to track your individual progress along with identifying areas for improvement

After completion of the course, you will be expected to be ready to enter the workforce because you have:

Developed your hard and soft employment skills
Increased your independence skills
Increased your confidence
Developed an aspiration for employment

What our Course Participants say

“The Becoming a Worker course is fun and engaging. I like all the different types of activities that I can do.”

Richie
Participant

“I love working on the Becoming a Worker course with my friends. I want to get a job and this course is teaching me lots of skills I can use.”

Steven
Participant

About Us

Drawing on nearly 40 years of experience of connecting employers and new entrants to the Australian Job Market, The Essential Foundation has developed an online program which offers wonderful benefits for:

School Leavers who aspire to enter the workforce
Transition to Work (TtW) Participants
Parents Next (PN) Participants
NDIS Participants including, School Leaver Employment Supports (SLES), Finding and Keeping a Job (FAKAJ), and CORE programs
Disability Employment Supports (DES) Participants

AND

Providers by offering the Perfect Solution to delivering highly effective Employment Supports (Learn more).

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)

The course does not have a deadline. The course has been designed to allow any participant to complete it at their own pace. This self guided learning is a new interactive way to learn and achieve work based outcomes.

The course is completely online. To access the course a participant would simply need a device with internet access, like a PC , Laptop, iPad, Tablet or even your Smartphone!

The course is available through participating Schools, TtW, PN, NDIS/SLES, and DES Providers. If your Provider currently does not offer BaW, please ask them to contact us to gain access to the program.