Career Directions Careers Expo 2024 is back for it’s fifth year and we are excited to bring another opportunity for our fellow Wheatbelt organisations to promote their employment and training opportunities to local and regional secondary students and jobseekers. Career Directions Careers Expo is a free community event delivered by Directions Workforce Solutions bringing together […]

One View of Resilience Resilience is all about how we tackle life and its hurdles. At Rural West, we frequently work with farming and business families where unexpected events create financial difficulties. In many of these cases, we find that the unexpected events are almost always interspersed with other challenges – creating a complex situation. […]

As an employer or manager, it is important that you are aware of new employee entitlement obligations as a result of recent changes to the Fair Work Act. To help you, we outline these for you below. 1. Unpaid Parental LeaveCommencing 1 July 2023, employees have greater flexibility in utilising this leave. Employees will now […]

The Wheatbelt Business Network (WBN) is pleased to announce a new collaboration with Rural West, aimed at broadening the reach of financial counselling services offered by Rural West to regional small businesses facing financial challenges. With Rural West on board as a sponsor, the WBN can now extend more support for its members and other […]

We were absolutely thrilled to hold our first CBH Wheatbelt Future’s Forum last week at Muresk Institute and it being a sold out event. There was a wealth of information, guest speakers and networking opportunities abuzz throughout the whole day and we have received some fantastic feedback to ensure this becomes an inaugural event for […]

With our Pingelly hospitality students halfway through their training, the Local Jobs Program team organised an employer meet up event in October with three local hospitality employers, who shared their own journey in the industry and some advice and tips to candidates starting out. Our Employment Facilitator, Emma Everett, facilitating the event, encouraged the students […]