Overview
MatchWorks has a range of activities in your local area to expand your skill sets and gain extra work experience.
Activities cover individual job seekers or involve job seekers working as a team to deliver a valuable outcome for your community.
Current Work for the Dole opportunities
Retail
Participants have the chance to take part in various community retail stores and develop the following skills:
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
- Effective influencing and negotiation skills
- Customer service
- Ability to work under pressure and to tight deadlines
- Analysis and problem-solving skills
- Commercial awareness
- Visual merchandising
- Strong time-management skills and attention to detail
- Product knowledge
- Operating cash registers or point of sale terminals to accept payment
- Accepting deliveries and pricing stock
Hospitality
Participants work in a commercial kitchen environment, preparing and serving meals to members of the public. Tasks include those performed in any commercial restaurant covering:
- Following food hygiene rules
- Communication skills
- Multi-tasking
- Personal presentation
- Teamwork
- Prepare and cook different kinds of foods
- Food quality monitoring
- Safe food handling and storage
- Food preparation to specific dietary or cultural requirements
Landscaping and maintenance
Participants are involved in a range of landscaping, gardening and construction elements which may include:
- Working from plans that have been made by garden designers or landscape architect
- Site preparation
- Turf and seed lawns
- Planting and propagation
- Installing features like paving, paths, water features and rock gardens
- Working towards deadlines
- Organisational skills
- Training in use of tools and horticultural skills
- Working independently or as part of a team
Administration/IT
Participants learn a range of administrative and information technology skills including:
- Social media and website design/maintenance
- Event coordination
- Learning the fundamentals of website codes e.g. HTML and Java Script
- Using programs from within the Microsoft Office Suite – Word, Excel, PowerPoint
- Peer to Peer Networking
- Learning how to apply server driven systems
- Filing, correspondence and secretarial duties
- Minute taking
- Marketing and promotion
- Developing briefs for clients