Skills and Jobs Centres

Skills and Jobs Centres should be your first port-of-call when you are looking to enter the workforce, start training, re-skill, or for employers to meet their workforce needs.

What are Skills and Job Centres?

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Based in TAFEs across Victoria, Skills and Jobs Centres provide expert advice on training and employment opportunities, including:

careers advice
help with job searching
assistance preparing resumes
apprenticeship and traineeship advice
assistance using the Victorian Skills Gateway
referral to welfare support and financial advice
assistance in using your existing skills to align to a new job or to undertake new training (Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL))
information on employment trends, areas with a shortage in skills and employment opportunities.
assistance with career and training plans, identifying training qualifications that could be undertaken to make a successful career transition.

The Centres also engage with a broad range of local industries, ensuring that the centres are tailored to meet the needs of their local communities and industries.

The Government has invested over $16 million into one-stop-shops, the Skills and Jobs Centres.

Who can use the Centres?

Skills and Jobs Centres are aimed at:

prospective students
current Students
apprentices and trainees
unemployed or retrenched workers
women returning to work
new immigrant/refugee
anyone seeking a career change
employers
industry

Find your nearest Centre

Though the individual Centres are locally focused, they are also all connected, meaning your local Skills and Jobs Centre is able to link you into the Centre or TAFE that best suits your particular training needs.

This map shows Skills and Job Centres now open. A full list of current and future Centre locations is below.

Skills and Jobs Centres locations

The Skills and Jobs Centres are located within all TAFEs and dual sector universities across Victoria.

Bendigo TAFE

Bendigo: 136 McCrae Street, Bendigo 3550

Phone: 1300 100 606
Email: skills&jobscentre@bendigotafe.edu.au
Web: skillsandjobs.com.au

Box Hill Institute

Box Hill Campus: Ground Floor, Building 8, 465 Elgar Road, Box Hill 3128

CAE Campus: Level 4 - B418, 253 Flinders Lane, Melbourne, 3000

Lilydale Campus: Level 3, LA Building, 1 Jarlo Drive, Lilydale 3140

Phone: 03 8892 1350
Email: sajc.elgar@boxhill.edu.au
Web: Box Hill Institute Skills and Jobs

Chisholm Institute

Dandenong Campus: 311 Lonsdale Street, Dandenong, 3175

Phone: (03) 9212 4909
Email: skillsandjobs@chisholm.edu.au
Web: Chisholm Skills and Jobs Centre

Federation TAFE

Ballarat SMB Campus: 20 Grant Street, Ballarat 3350

Horsham Campus: Building M, 289 Baillie Street, Horsham 3400

Phone: 03 5327 6540
Email: skillsandjobs@federation.edu.au
Web: Federation Skills and Jobs Centre

The Gordon

Geelong: Geelong City Campus, G building, Level 1 Geelong

Phone: 03 5225 0700

Wyndham: 24 Watton St, Werribee

Email: skillscentre@gordontafe.edu.au
Web: The Gordon Skills and Jobs Centre

GOTAFE

Benalla Campus: 57 Samara Road, Benalla 3672
Shepparton Campus: 152-200 Fryers Street, Shepparton 3630
Wangaratta Campus: 27 Docker Street, Wangaratta 3677

Mobile service

Phone: 1800 GOTAFE (468 233)
Email: skillsandjobs@gotafe.vic.edu.au
Web: GOTAFE Skills and Jobs Centre

Holmesglen Institute

Chadstone Campus: Corner Batesford and Warrigal Road, Chadstone, 3148

City Campus: 332 St Kilda Road, Southbank, 3006

Phone: 03 9564 2755
Email: sjc@holmesglen.edu.au
Web: Holmesglen Skills and Jobs centre

Kangan Institute

Broadmeadows Campus: Building A, Office 121, Pearcedale Parade, Broadmeadows

Phone: 1300 100 606
Email: skills&jobscentre@kangan.edu.au
Web: skillsandjobs.com.au