Indigenous Career Trek

Indigenous Career Trek delivers a range of learning and development opportunities to support career development and advancement for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander employees at all levels in the Australian Public Service. 

Career Trek was designed to enhance access to career development opportunities for regionally based staff and those employed by small to medium sized agencies, as well as expanding opportunities for staff based in Canberra and other capital cities.

For further information please contact the National Leadership and Programmes Centre on 02 6202 3522.

Professional APS Writing

As an Australian Public Service employee, the ability to write effectively is an essential skill. This two day program will assist you to develop your ability to create letters, emails, reports and other documentation.

Career Trek Flyer

The chance to work with APS Indigenous employees from around the country is one of the great things about the work we do. During 2008 over 490 Indigenous employees from a range of agencies have registered on our programmes  to develop their career management, communication and job application skills. They were part of Indigenous Career Trek.

The Trek brought people together in capital cities such as Canberra and Perth, more remote places like Dubbo and Thursday Island – and many places in between. Through 32 free career development workshops Indigenous employees exchanged their knowledge and experience, built networks and developed strategies to achieve their career goals.

The stories people shared about how they started and progressed their APS careers, the challenges they faced and how they overcame them, were both inspirational and valuable.

Since the workshops, some participants have stayed in touch to share their success stories and the overall feedback people gave, during and after the workshops, was really positive. Here’s what some of them had to say:

‘I was really focused for interviews the week after the workshop much more relaxed and confident.  I have offers from all 3 employers who I met with that week!’ – APS 5-6

‘Great workshop! Really beneficial and relevant’ – APS 1-4

 ‘Very valuable/knowledge experience’ – APS 5-6

‘Great workshop, very rewarding and informative. Thank you.’ APS 1-4

Many people helped us make the Trek a success, from the participants who freely gave of their knowledge and experience to agency staff who helped co-ordinate participation. We want to extend our thanks to all involved.

Indigenous Career Trek is only one of the initiatives under the APS Employment and Capability Strategy for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders. To find out more about what we are doing under the Strategy go to our information page

If you want to find out more about the other learning and development programmes the Commission offers for APS employees go to our learning and development page