Flood recovery cements skills for unemployed at golf course

A NEWLY trained construction crew are putting their skills to good use in Rockhampton, helping victims of February’s floods.Employment Services have teamed up with Workplace Training Staff Development and Online Courses Australia to train 15 people in a Certificate II in Civil Construction.The crew are using their newfound skills to help the Capricorn Country Golf Club get back on track after being damaged by the floods.Employment Services regional manager Cheryl Russell said the crew had put about 40m of cement paths in.”The crew have helped lay concrete, while also completing the online component of the course,” she said.”We will help them all with their new skills, to get positions in the workforce straight away.”The three-week course will also allow the crew get their chainsaw ticket.Justin Kemp, who has nearly finished the course, said it had been great.”We’ve learnt a lot of different things that I hadn’t done before, like how to use a chainsaw and I learnt the proper way to concrete,” he said.”The course opens up a lot of different areas to work in. This week we are learning surveying and confined spaces.”I’m interested in surveying and will probably pursue a job in that line of work.”The next course will begin in June. Click here for full golf story and golf news source Flood recovery cements skills for unemployed at golf course