Directions Workforce Solutions
Directions Workforce Solutions
Established in 1988, Directions Workforce Solutions (Directions) is a Western Australian registered charity, not-for-profit and Group Training Organisation (GTO).
Surplus revenue is reinvested into local community programs, scholarships, and charitable initiatives.
Build a stronger workforce with supported apprentices and trainees backed by recruitment, mentoring, payroll, and compliance management.
Start your career journey with opportunities across multiple industries, supported by a team that genuinely cares about your growth and wants you to succeed.
Learn how Directions Workforce Solutions is giving back through community partnerships, support programs, and meaningful local initiatives.
Established in 1988, Directions Workforce Solutions (Directions) is a Western Australian registered charity, not-for-profit and Group Training Organisation (GTO). Surplus revenue is reinvested into local community programs, scholarships, and charitable initiatives.
Build a stronger, sustainable workforce with supported apprentices and trainees backed by recruitment, mentoring, pastoral care, payroll, and compliance management.
Start your career journey with opportunities across multiple industries, supported by a team that genuinely cares about your growth and wants you to succeed.
Learn how Directions Workforce Solutions is giving back through community partnerships, support programs, and meaningful local initiatives.
We provide comprehensive recruitment, screening, aptitude testing, and onboarding, including specialised support and field officer mentoring that consistently delivers high completion rates and safety awareness.
We assume all legal employer responsibilities. By managing the insurance costs and risks for apprentices, we provide significant insurance cost savings and liability protection to our host employers. We also assist in the navigation of Wage Subsidies.
We supply PPE and inductions, handle government paperwork, and manage workers’ comp, public liability and professional indemnity. We additionally support organisations with their Tender and Bidding Submissions.
Through our decades of unique experience, we craft customer workforce development strategies for small businesses through to Tier 1 organisations. Likewise, we support Indigenous Australians through vocational pathways programs.
We provide comprehensive recruitment, screening, aptitude testing, and onboarding, including specialised support and field officer mentoring that consistently delivers high completion rates and safety awareness.
We assume all legal employer responsibilities. By managing the insurance costs and risks for apprentices, we provide significant insurance cost savings and liability protection to our host employers. We also assist in the navigation of Wage Subsidies.
We supply PPE and inductions, handle government paperwork, and manage workers’ comp, public liability and professional indemnity. We additionally support organisations with their Tender and Bidding Submissions.
Through our decades of unique experience, we craft customer workforce development strategies for small businesses through to Tier 1 organisations. Likewise, we support Indigenous Australians through vocational pathways programs.
We will help you fill vacancies quickly, so projects keep moving. We deliver a specialist recruitment pipeline, thorough screening and pre-placement preparation to reduce downtime.
Our wrap-around mentoring and early interventions reduce early-term exits and improve qualification completion. For clients, this translates to strong workforce continuity, and increased affordability.
By acting as the legal employer and centralising payroll, training contracts, claims and reporting, and more, we remove recurring administrative burden from your HR and Supervisors, saving time and money for your business.
Directions lowers operational disruption by managing WHS, conducting pre-placement site checks and return-to-work processes, increasing your procurement outcomes. Our goal is a quality service.
We will help you fill vacancies quickly, so projects keep moving. We deliver a specialist recruitment pipeline, thorough screening and pre-placement preparation to reduce downtime.
Our wrap-around mentoring and early interventions reduce early-term exits and improve qualification completion. For clients, this translates to strong workforce continuity, and increased affordability.
By acting as the legal employer and centralising payroll, training contracts, claims and reporting, and more, we remove recurring administrative burden from your HR and Supervisors, saving time and money for your business.
Directions lowers operational disruption by managing WHS, conducting pre-placement site checks and return-to-work processes, increasing your procurement outcomes. Our goal is a quality service.
Discover how our recruitment expertise, strategic insight, and talent solutions help organisations secure professionals and accelerate business growth.
Discover how our recruitment expertise, strategic insight, and talent solutions help organisations secure professionals and accelerate business growth.
Contact us via email or phone for a friendly chat. We'll further discuss our services, answer any questions, and provide you with a quote.
In person, we will discuss a time to catch up with you to go over the paperwork, sign documentation and discuss apprentice cultural fit.
With your particulars in mind, we will source talent, screen them, conduct pertinent checks, onboard them, and present. You have the final say.
With your new apprentice successfully onboarded, chosen and ready to go, both you and them will receive continuous support.
Contact us via email or phone for a friendly chat. We'll further discuss our services, answer any questions, and provide you with a quote.
In person, we will discuss a time to catch up with you to go over the paperwork, sign documentation and discuss apprentice cultural fit.
With your particulars in mind, we will source talent, screen them, conduct pertinent checks, onboard them, and present. You have the final say.
With your new apprentice successfully onboarded, chosen and ready to go, both you and them will receive continuous support.
A Group Training Organisation (GTO) is an organisation that employs apprentices or trainees and places them with host businesses, while handling much of the recruitment, payroll, compliance, training coordination, and ongoing support. This allows the apprentice or trainee to gain real workplace experience with the host employer, while the GTO manages the employment side and helps improve retention, development, and completion outcomes.
Direct hire means the business employs the apprentice or trainee directly and is responsible for recruitment, payroll, compliance, supervision, and ongoing support. A Group Training Organisation (GTO), on the other hand, employs the apprentice or trainee and places them with a host business, while managing much of the administration, training coordination, and pastoral support. In simple terms, direct hire gives the employer full responsibility, while a GTO shares the load and provides a more supported, flexible apprenticeship model.
Yes! Depending on the subsidies available and what a business is eligible for, there may be financial support to help with apprentice wages, tools, and workplace adjustments for people with disability. These may include wage assistance for apprentices with disability and funding for workplace modifications, equipment, and services. In practice, when multiple eligible supports are combined, the total can be significant, and in some cases, more than $100,000. Contact us to learn more.
If an organisation can no longer support an apprentice, we can step in and manage the transition quickly and professionally. Because of our large network, we are able to flexibly redeploy apprentices to other businesses where the opportunity is a better fit. Whether the issue is a lack of suitable work, a breakdown in communication or relationship, or the completion of a project, we will take the apprentice back and, if needed, provide you with someone new.
Directions Workforce Solutions delivers targeted diversity and inclusion initiatives that combine decades of Indigenous employment experience, subsidised trial placements through our Way Forward program, pastoral mentoring, and free cultural training for host supervisors to reduce barriers and improve retention. We offer In‑House Cultural Training free of charge to new clients starting their Indigenous engagement journey.
Directions Workforce Solutions channels its charity initiatives into measurable community impact by funding targeted programs, community grants, scholarships and the Way Forward subsidised employment pathway that removes financial barriers for disadvantaged candidates while helping employers meet ESG and social‑procurement goals. We reinvest surplus into local projects and partner with schools, training providers and employers to deliver cultural training, mentorship, paid trial placements and wrap‑around supports that have placed hundreds into sustainable work.
Of course! You can choose the apprentice you want. Directions manages recruitment, screening and shortlisting and then presents job‑ready candidates for your review so you select the best fit, with a collaborative criteria phase to define role needs and selection filter. Ultimately, host organisations have the final say. If the candidate is not the right fit for your business and your team, there is no obligation to proceed into a formal apprenticeship arrangement.
A Group Training Organisation (GTO) is an organisation that employs apprentices or trainees and places them with host businesses, while handling much of the recruitment, payroll, compliance, training coordination, and ongoing support. This allows the apprentice or trainee to gain real workplace experience with the host employer, while the GTO manages the employment side and helps improve retention, development, and completion outcomes.
Direct hire means the business employs the apprentice or trainee directly and is responsible for recruitment, payroll, compliance, supervision, and ongoing support. A Group Training Organisation (GTO), on the other hand, employs the apprentice or trainee and places them with a host business, while managing much of the administration, training coordination, and pastoral support. In simple terms, direct hire gives the employer full responsibility, while a GTO shares the load and provides a more supported, flexible apprenticeship model.
Yes! Depending on the subsidies available and what a business is eligible for, there may be financial support to help with apprentice wages, tools, and workplace adjustments for people with disability. These may include wage assistance for apprentices with disability and funding for workplace modifications, equipment, and services. In practice, when multiple eligible supports are combined, the total can be significant, and in some cases, more than $100,000. Contact us to learn more.
If an organisation can no longer support an apprentice, we can step in and manage the transition quickly and professionally. Because of our large network, we are able to flexibly redeploy apprentices to other businesses where the opportunity is a better fit. Whether the issue is a lack of suitable work, a breakdown in communication or relationship, or the completion of a project, we will take the apprentice back and, if needed, provide you with someone new.
Directions Workforce Solutions delivers targeted diversity and inclusion initiatives that combine decades of Indigenous employment experience, subsidised trial placements through our Way Forward program, pastoral mentoring, and free cultural training for host supervisors to reduce barriers and improve retention. We offer In‑House Cultural Training free of charge to new clients starting their Indigenous engagement journey.
Directions Workforce Solutions channels its charity initiatives into measurable community impact by funding targeted programs, community grants, scholarships and the Way Forward subsidised employment pathway that removes financial barriers for disadvantaged candidates while helping employers meet ESG and social‑procurement goals. We reinvest surplus into local projects and partner with schools, training providers and employers to deliver cultural training, mentorship, paid trial placements and wrap‑around supports that have placed hundreds into sustainable work.
Of course! You can choose the apprentice you want. Directions manages recruitment, screening and shortlisting and then presents job‑ready candidates for your review so you select the best fit, with a collaborative criteria phase to define role needs and selection filter. Ultimately, host organisations have the final say. If the candidate is not the right fit for your business and your team, there is no obligation to proceed into a formal apprenticeship arrangement.
Directions Workforce Solutions acknowledges the Traditional Owners of the land on which we operate. We pay our respects to Elders past, present and emerging.
We recognise the role of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island peoples as the First Peoples of Australia.
Ready to build a stronger workforce, find the right opportunity, or learn how Directions can support your business?
Contact Directions Workforce Solutions today and take the next step toward better outcomes, backed by trusted support, real experience, and a team focused on helping people and businesses succeed.
