/ Vision

Being jobless is not just being out of work, it means having diminished capacity to tend to one’s basic needs: food, clothing, housing; it means isolation and social exclusion, reduced possibilities for human interaction; it means limited opportunities to do anything to improve one’s own situation, and worst of all, opportunities that narrow the longer one remains out of work.

The mission of the Australian employment services, and of NESA as the peak body for the sector, is to turn this cycle around: to enable those who are not participating fully in Australian society to rediscover their independence, their self-esteem, and their sense of purpose; to re-enter the mainstream of Australian society and to feel once again that their contribution is valued, their efforts bear fruit, and they have a voice. The work carried out by our dedicated members is often hard – the individual barriers that need to be overcome are often high – but the human rewards are great. Every person returned to the workforce is a life turned around, and the employment services teams and frontline employment consultants who do this work know how important their efforts are, to individual clients, to society as a whole, and to the Australian economy.