[Jennelle Choyce, Regional Director – Department of Trade, Employment and Training]
So the Jobs Expo is a great opportunity for jobseekers to get in front of employers. Sometimes through the regular interview application process it's quite impersonal, but this way jobseekers get to meet employers. They get to ask questions, they get to make a connection. And the last few jobs expos that we've actually done people get jobs on the day.
[Kym Kanofski, Workforce Australia]
The interactions and experiences this expo gives jobseekers builds their self-confidence as they can present themselves, effectively communicate their thoughts and approach job opportunities with a positive and proactive mindset.
[Todd Rohl, CEO – Toowoomba Chamber of Commerce]
The Toowoomba Chamber are big supporters of this event. We'll continue to be big supporters of this event. It fits perfectly with one of our core values of connection, we're connecting business to individuals. And the other really important thing it is for the Chamber is it fits perfectly with our Business Connect Program, but we get to provide mentorships both to employees and employers, so to ensure that those connections are swift and long lasting.
[Kate Venables, Jobs Queensland]
Jobs Queensland loves coming along to these kind of events because what we know is we get to listen to employers and potential employees and understand some of the trends and the challenges that they're facing. For us, we will often have little nuggets of gold that we can take away then and understand that in this place, in Toowoomba, in Stanthorpe, whatever region they're coming from, these are some of the challenges they've got. These are some of the opportunities they're seeing and we can bring that in and talk about that really then at a statewide level.
[Jennelle Choyce, Regional Director – Department of Trade, Employment and Training]
The support of the employers, the support of a lot of our other service providers in the region has been fantastic. So wonderful job well done, Toowoomba, and we look forward to more of these fantastic events.