Smart solutions for your professional skills shortage

This guide is a resource for Queensland employers to use when considering strategies for attracting and retaining professional women in a competitive marketplace.

It aims to help organisations gain a competitive advantage by boosting one of their greatest assets - employees. By attracting professional women and re-engaging professional women who have left the workforce due to family, lifestyle or other reasons, as well as retaining those currently in the workforce, businesses can help guard against skilled labour shortages.

This guide is designed to provide businesses with practical actions to review and score against, to gain a better understanding of why people are attracted to the organisation or stay in the organisation.

Importantly, to be effective, attraction and retention strategies need to be applied to the workforce generally and benefit all employees.

Workforce participation snapshots 
Queensland has higher workforce participation and lower unemployment than the rest of the nation.

Workplace flexibility
Many employees in today's job market are increasingly seeking flexible work arrangements.

Attracting talented women
Organisations and industries need to adopt strategies that attract skilled employees.

Recruiting professional women 
Recruiting the right talent will help achieve business objectives.

Retaining women employees 
Staff retention is increasingly important to the success of a business.

Professional women contractors 
Organisations have the option to engage professional women on a contract basis.

Success story 
Flexible work arrangements and career opportunities are central not only to attracting and retaining female employees, but also to improving productivity.

Where to from here?
Useful information sources.