With our two decades of experience solving persistent heavy equipment maintenance shortages, we offer unique solutions that help you drive results such as 93% workforce retention, reduced subcontractor costs, and improved workplace culture.
Blue Tongue's Workforce Training and Consulting Services
Workforce Skills Project Consulting
With our deep knowledge base and decades of experience in industry, Blue Tongue is able to offer an unrivaled integrated service and a unique commercial partnership in developing our Clients’ workforce capabilities through strategic workforce planning and consulting.
Prior to commencing any of our Programs, our consultants undertake extensive skills mapping research and candidate market testing to ensure a functional skills and workforce transitional fit. Through years of research and experience our consultants know the type of people most likely to be successful in their career transition to heavy maintenance or electrical instrumentation and we know how to attract them into the program.
Workforce Upskilling and Reskilling
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 in industries such as mining and civil and forestry and logging.
With more than 1,000 successful automotive trades employees being carefully selected, trained and employed through Blue Tongue’s Advanced Group Training Programs to date, we’ve been able to deliver unprecedented rates of success for our partner Clients. We also offer specialized Electrical Instrumentation Technician training upskill programs for the oil and gas industry.
At Blue Tongue, we are more than a workforce supply organization. We are a consulting partner, and we share in the risk and cost of the project. We plan, design, invest, and manage the entire skills recruitment, hiring, and training journey so that you can focus on managing work and performance.
Workforce Skills and Training
At Blue Tongue, we design, resource, and invest in setting up skills acquisition and training projects for our Clients. This helps you improve your internal capabilities by building a team of dedicated and skilled technicians so that you’re less reliant on expensive and unreliable contractors. Our services include workforce planning, hiring, formal training, and workforce management.
We take on all upfront project investment and provide everything required for the purposes of helping the workforce acquire new skills through training. This means that our Clients get a specialist technical workforce that will fill their critical skills gaps.
Innovative Workforce Solutions Tailored for your business
- We work closely with Clients to plan, design, and project manage custom, innovative workforce solutions, addressing long-term critical skills shortages.
- We invest significant funds ensuring technicians are up to date with industry standards and skills before they start with our Clients.
- We are a true project partner, helping Clients drive the change they need to build reliable, skilled technical workforces.
- We undertake extensive market research and testing with candidates before inviting them to join our Programs, ensuring they are the right fit for our Clients through workforce upskill programs.
- We have tested and honed our services over decades, ensuring that our partner Clients get unrivaled results.
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