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Want to improve your Heavy Duty Equipment Technician workforce? Our unique solutions can help you reduce costs and achieve a 93% retention rate.
What We Provide As Part of Our Forestry and Logging Programs
Blue Tongue developed the first Automotive Service Technician to Heavy Duty Equipment Technician Advanced Group Training Program in Australia in 2011 with one specific goal: to solve the critical workforce shortages of Heavy Duty Equipment Technicians.
Since the implementation of our Advanced Group Training Programs, Blue Tongue has sourced, hired, upskilled, and supported over 1,000 automotive mechanics to gain qualifications and work as Heavy Duty Equipment Technicians for our Clients. We have achieved a 93% retention and completion rate with our Clients, and 80% of our upskilled workforce are still working with Clients more than four years later.
Blue Tongue has two decades of experience in sourcing, selecting, and employing specialist technical trades from around the world to help forestry and logging Clients overcome Heavy Duty Equipment Technician shortages.
In us, Clients have a true partner. They can leverage our decades of experience in international talent sourcing as we manage everything from hiring to relocation, and then offer continued workforce management support for the duration of the Program.
Clients have seen huge advantages from our International Talent Program such as improved workforce retention, culture, and loyalty. And because we invest all upfront costs ourselves, Clients can take on skilled international talent with virtually no risk.
Blue Tongue has reinvented the way to solve critical Heavy Duty Equipment Technician skills shortages in the forestry and logging industry.
- We work closely with forestry and logging Clients to plan, design, and project manage a custom, innovative Program addressing long-term critical Heavy Duty Equipment Technician workforce challenges.
- We invest significant funds ensuring technicians are up to date with industry standards and skills before they start with our forestry and logging Clients.
- We undertake extensive market research and testing with candidates before inviting them to join our Programs, ensuring they are the right fit for our forestry and logging Clients.
- We have tested and honed our Programs over decades, ensuring that our forestry and logging Clients get unrivaled results.
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