Systems in Employment Practice - Episode 2: Journey-Based Employment
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Systems in Employment Practice - Episode 2: Journey-Based Employment
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What would employment services look like if they were designed around a person’s employment journey, rather than the program they happen to qualify for today?
In this episode, Dr Peter Smith explores the idea of journey-based employment and why the way we organise employment services can sometimes get in the way of the outcome we are trying to achieve.
People’s employment journeys do not begin when they enter a program, and they do not necessarily end when a program records an outcome. They develop across education, preparation, work experience, employment, career development and periods of transition. Yet the systems supporting that journey are often divided into separate programs, funding streams and eligibility categories.
This episode asks what changes when we make the employment journey itself the organising principle.
It explores continuity, transitions between systems, what needs to persist when programs and providers change, and why employment services may need to think beyond individual program boundaries if we want employment outcomes that develop and endure over time.
Part of the CDERP Employment Systems Podcast series, exploring how we might think differently about the systems that shape employment participation.
