Australian jobseekers told to use ChatGPT to write résumés and to study ‘laws of attraction’
by Luke Henriques-Gomes Social affairs and inequality from World news | The Guardian on (#6BV8Y)
Exclusive: A taxpayer-funded online employability course that included videos on body language contained not curriculum-endorsed materials'
A taxpayer-funded employability course is under fire after jobseekers complained that much of the compulsory training involved being shown irrelevant, inappropriate and, at-times, bizarre YouTube videos.
Under contracts signed by the Coalition last year, the federal government will pay private providers about $300m over five years to run Employability Skills Training (EST) courses as part of the commonwealth's $7bn Workforce Australia program.
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