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Supporting Learning and Well-Being with Cognitive Assessments
Cognitive assessments at The Personnel Group provide personalised insights into memory, learning, and focus—helping people of all ages access support and reach their full potential.
May 12 2025
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Who Needs Positive Behaviour Support? Understanding When and How It Can Help
Positive Behaviour Support (PBS) is a person-centred approach aimed at improving the quality of life for individuals exhibiting challenging behaviours. At TPG, we provide tailored PBS services to support individuals in achieving their goals and enhancing their well-being.
May 8 2025
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How NDIS Capacity Building Supports Can Help You Thrive
Home News The National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) provides a range of supports to help participants build independence and improve their quality of life. One of the most valuable yet often underutilised categories of funding is NDIS Capacity Building Supports. These supports are designed to develop the skills and confidence needed to achieve personal goals, […]
May 1 2025
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Navigating Autism with The Personnel Group: Recognising the Early Signs of ASD
Recognising the early signs of Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is crucial for timely intervention and support. Noticing these signs early can lead to interventions that significantly improve developmental outcomes.
Mar 16 2025
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Navigating Autism as an Adult: How to Get Screened and Find Support
Seeking an autism diagnosis as an adult can be a pivotal step toward self-understanding and accessing appropriate support. Being informed about the signs and characteristics of autism in adults is crucial.
Mar 12 2025
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The Personnel Group Announces Changes to Support Coordination Services
Starting January 2025, The Personnel Group will no longer provide Support Coordination services.
Jan 24 2025
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What is Positive Behaviour Support (PBS) at The Personnel Group?
At The Personnel Group, our Positive Behaviour Support (PBS) services are tailored to each individual, focusing on understanding and transforming challenging behaviours through compassionate, evidence-based strategies.
Jan 7 2025
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How The Personnel Group Can Help You Benefit from NDIS Employment Assistance
In this article, we’ll break down what NDIS employment assistance is and how we help individuals build confidence, develop essential skills, and, ultimately, land jobs that make a difference in their lives.
Dec 16 2024
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Taking Care of Your Mental Health: Tips, Strategies, and Support from The Personnel Group
In this article, we’ll explore simple yet effective strategies to support your well-being as well as how we can help you gain a better and more fulfilling life.
Dec 9 2024
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How the NDIS Can Help You in Your Job Search
In this article, we’ll break down the specific employment supports you can take advantage of as an NDIS participant as well as how The Personnel Group can make accessing these services simple and stress-free.
Oct 25 2024
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How the NDIS Can Help You Find & Keep a Fulfilling Job
At The Personnel Group, we specialise in providing NDIS employment support services that help participants find the right job and maintain it long-term. In this guide, we’ll explore how the NDIS can support you on your employment journey and how we can step in to help you find and maintain the perfect job for you.
Oct 21 2024
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How Psychology Services Can Help People With ADHD
Due to its effects on how people focus and respond to stimuli, ADHD can impact many aspects of their lives, such as their psychological well-being, academic progress, occupational performance, and daily living conditions.
Oct 3 2024
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How Occupational Therapy Can Help Children with Developmental Delays
Children exhibiting signs of developmental delays can be a source of concern for parents and caregivers. These delays can have a significant and oftentimes long-term effect on a child's ability to reach certain developmental milestones.
Sep 26 2024
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Empowering Your Child’s Transition to Work: A Parent’s Guide to SLES
The School Leaver Employment Support (SLES) is a type of support program offered through the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) to help young individuals with disabilities transition from school to the workplace.
Sep 24 2024
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How Youth Employment Assistance (formerly SLES) Helps Develop Workplace Skills
The School Leaver Employment Support (SLES) is a type of support program offered through the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) to help young individuals with disabilities transition from school to the workplace.
Sep 20 2024
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How Our NDIS Employment Services Can Help You Get a Job
The main purpose of the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) is to help individuals with disabilities access the support they need to live independently and achieve their goals. In addition to providing support for daily living tasks, there are NDIS services that are geared towards helping people accomplish their employment-related objectives.
Sep 17 2024
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Jayden’s Pathway to Work
Jayden's journey began last year when he attended workshops designed to build his confidence, skills, and experience, preparing him for the workforce.
Sep 3 2024
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Thread Together
Home Success Stories ‘s Story Today, we shine a spotlight on Thread Together, a remarkable organisation that collaborates with Anglicare to provide access to beautiful new clothing for the people of Wagga Wagga and the Riverina Region. By offering much-needed clothing in a dignified manner, Thread Together ensures that community members feel valued and respected. […]
Aug 22 2024
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Future Footprints for Local Aboriginal Youth
Home News This week we are proud to launch Future Footprints, a workshop series for local Aboriginal youth. The Personnel Group, in partnership with the NSW Government’s Regional Aboriginal Partnerships Program, is proud to announce the launch of Future Footprints, a series of job-ready workshops aimed at supporting Aboriginal youth. Workshop highlights include; practical job-ready […]
Aug 7 2024
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Understanding the Impact of Homelessness in Australia
This week marks Homelessness Week, an important time for homelessness services and community groups to raise awareness about this widespread issue. Homelessness is a reality for many Australians, with some sobering statistics from Homelessness Australia that highlight the scale of the problem: Homelessness is often misunderstood as “rooflessness”—an older person on a park bench with […]
Aug 7 2024
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Overcoming Barriers to Mental Health Support
Home News A study by the Better Health Channel revealed that around one in five Australians experience a mental health illness each year. Additionally, 45% of adults in the country have been affected by a mental health disorder at some point in their lives. While seeking professional psychology services is one of the most effective […]
Jul 1 2024
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Elevating NDIS Support with Exciting New Offerings
Home News In a significant move towards enhancing the lives of individuals who are a part of the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS), The Personnel Group has launched new NDIS offerings to sit beside its existing employment focused NDIS services Pathway to Work and Employment Supports. The new services—Youth Employment Assistance (formerly SLES), and Support […]
Feb 22 2024
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Locals find their Pathway to Work in Griffith
Home News During the last few weeks, we have had the pleasure of seeing our Pathway to Work participants graduate from our Pathway to Work training program in Albury, Wodonga, Griffith, Nowra, Canberra, Yass, Goulburn, Wollongong, Bendigo, Shepperton, Benalla and Wangaratta Over 12 months these inspiring individuals dedicated themselves to weekly workshops where they honed […]
Dec 19 2023
Corporate identityNews
The Personnel Group Broadens it’s scope
The Personnel Group, has recently acquired MP Training and Recruitment, a long-standing Albury/Wodonga private recruitment, labor hire, and training business.
Jul 10 2023
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Michael’s Big Milestone
Yesterday was a happy occasion for Michael and his team members, as they celebrated his 25th year of working at Big W Lavington.
May 11 2023
CEO BlogNews
Workplace Accessibility Investment
Federal Government is boosting its investment in workplace accessibility through the Employment Assistance Fund.
Apr 17 2023
CEO BlogNews
Leadership…and a bit of fun.
As our CEO it is essential that I demonstrate to the team that it is not one rule for me, and another for them.
Apr 3 2023
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Benjamin’s Story
With the help of The Personnel Group and his own dedication, Benjamin gained a casual job at Repco.
Mar 29 2023
CEO BlogNews
Imagining our Future
My most defining takeaway from the workshops is the passion of our people for the impact of their work.
Mar 20 2023
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What is the Employment Assistance Fund, and can I access it?
The JobAccess Employment Assistance Fund (EAF) gives financial help to buy work-related modifications etc
Feb 20 2023
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Tapping into diverse labour market makes good business sense
An integral part of The Personnel Group’s role in finding meaningful work for people with barriers is building employer confidence
Feb 20 2023
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Achieving your goals in 2023
I don’t claim to have all the answers myself, but as someone who aspires to continually improve and is always working on something, I thought it might be helpful to share what has worked for me.
Jan 9 2023
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The Personnel Group provides a new Pathway to Work
The Personnel Group has developed a new pre-employment program – Pathway to Work – to build life skills, soft skills and employability skills.
Sep 10 2022
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The Personnel Group takes the lead to tackle homelessness
The Personnel Group has set up a volunteer staff housing and homelessness committee to identify practical ways it can positively help.
Aug 12 2022
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July 25th, 2022
Employers consistently report that transferable skills such as work ethic, attitude and customer service are the traits they most desire in new hires.
Jul 25 2022
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Local team, local knowledge helping you land that local job
Industry specialists Brad Platschinda and Nick Scammell have joined The Personnel Group to support Gippsland jobseekers into work.
Jul 20 2022
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July 11th, 2022
Throughout my time in the employment services industry, much of our work has been dedicated to building employer confidence in employing people with a non-traditional background.
Jul 11 2022
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June 9th, 2022
I came back from this conference determined to find solutions for this, and that is why I welcome the challenge, and the criticism.
Jun 9 2022
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June 27th, 2022
At The Personnel Group, we brought our leadership team and emerging leaders group together for our quarterly Leaders Meeting.
Jun 6 2022
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May 27th, 2022
We are currently preparing to rollout our 2022 – 2027 Strategic Plan, and annual initiatives, and it is heartening to see that many of the strategies we have developed will have a real and immediate impact on our team members working at the front line.
Jun 3 2022
Community championsNews
Roundabout Canberra – a great Community Champion
Roundabout Canberra founder and CEO Hannah Andrevski launched the charity in early 2018 and relies on community donations and volunteer staff.
May 18 2022
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The Personnel Group provides emergency food assistance support
The Personnel Group is collaborating with Albury Wodonga Regional FoodShare to provide community pantry vouchers across multiple locations in Albury-Wodonga.
Apr 19 2022
Corporate identityNews
Inclusion and Awareness key platform for new CEO
I have a natural alignment to our Purpose – Creating Equality through Employment, the individual, family and community benefit greatly when an individual has a job.
Mar 17 2022
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A message from us
As a long-standing provider, we don’t always get it right, but setting our standards high and reviewing our practices to know how to improve is always best practice.
Mar 11 2022
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The Personnel Group welcomes TAFE partnership
The Personnel Group is proud to partner the TAFE Specialist Employment Partnerships (TSEP) project which is a National Disability Coordination officer (NDCO) program initiative, in Wodonga and Wangaratta.
Mar 9 2022
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The Personnel Group donates defibrillator to Soldier On
A new life-saving defibrillator donated by The Personnel Group will provide extra peace of mind for Soldier On staff, volunteers and defence personnel, veterans and their families.
Feb 4 2022
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Mental health first aid focus remains low despite pandemic impact
Mental health first aid-trained staff from The Personnel Group collected 120 survey responses during November and December 2020, after COVID-19 restrictions delayed the planned October Mental Health Month rollout.
Jan 20 2022
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The Personnel Group donates defibrillator to Albury Wodonga Regional FoodShare
Personnel Group staff raised nearly $6000 to purchase three of the machines for facilities across the not-for-profit’s footprint, in Wodonga, Bendigo and Canberra.
Nov 23 2021
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Meet Caleb – Regional Support Officer (North)
Caleb, based at Belconnen in the ACT, joined The Personnel Group two and a half years ago as a customer service assistant after ending a successful career in retail management because of ongoing mental health challenges.
Oct 28 2021
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35 years, thousands of lives changed
Thirty-five years ago this August (2021) our first participant was placed in a job when, on her 19th birthday, Jenny McDermott started work at Hanrahans Linen Services in Albury.
Aug 13 2021
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Engaging and Delivering in COVID
The COVID-19 pandemic has thrown us significant challenges yet through it all The Personnel Group staff continue to put their clients first.
Aug 3 2021
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The Better Place Project
The Better Place Project survey is part of a suite of measures to promote mental health awareness and wellbeing resources available to business owners and employees in Albury.
May 6 2021
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Transition To Work Program More Important Than Ever
The Personnel Group believes Australia’s youth would play a key role in the COVID-19 pandemic recovery by stepping up to fill vacancies and help local economies rebound...
Apr 26 2021
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The Better Place Project – A workforce wellbeing initiative
A survey to determine the mental health wellbeing of the Albury and Lavington business community will be launched this week as part of a Mental Health Month initiative.
Oct 2 2020
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Opportunities created in the region for job seekers with Autism
A total of ten positions were available at the government employer’s Albury office with five of these positions filled by jobseekers with The Personnel Group. The successful candidates are now managing the input of data, such as client correspondence, scanning and sorting of mail.
Sep 4 2020
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Exciting News
The Personnel Group, a CoAct member delivering other jobactive employment specialist programs in partnership with CoAct.
Sep 4 2020
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