May
2011
Award winning company now ‘breeding’ award winning staff
It seems award winning creative services agency The Creative Collective is now breeding award winning staff.
The Creative Collective has been advised that not only had they become a finalist in the Queensland Training Awards in the Small Employer of the Year category, but that their 18 year old trainee, Jag Quimby, who is currently completing a Cert IV in IT (Multimedia) through the Sunshine Coast TAFE has also been named a finalist in the Bob Marshmann Trainee of the Year category of the same awards.
MEGT Australian Apprenticeships Centre Consultant Charmian Burow has been facilitating the Collective’s traineeships, in particular, that of Jag Quimby, who commenced traineeship back in March 2010.
The Queensland Training Awards recognise and reward the outstanding achievements of individuals and organisations within the vocational education and training sector who strive for excellence, best practice and innovation. Celebrating their 50th Anniversary in 2011, the awards continue to showcase and highlight the significant contribution made by Queensland’s vocational education and training sector to the wider Queensland community and economy. There are 11 award categories, with two new award categories open in 2011.
The director of the Creative Collective Yvette Adams says that the company is naturally ecstatic about the potential more awards accolades, and are particularly excited about this news given they have only been offering training for around 18 months.
“Whilst we started off life as a service based organisation we quickly discovered that if we could combine the service with education and training we could take our clients so much further. Education and training is now very much a part of our business and we are extremely excited to have been recognised in this awards program.”
The Creative Collective currently offer education in the form of monthly professional development and networking events called Web Wednesdays out of the Sunshine Coast Institute of TAFE; have developed and deliver a range of training programs for Government departments such as AusIndustry and the Department of Employment, Economic Development and Innovation and have recently moved into a commercial premises and begun offering intimate hands on laptop training out of their dedicated training room which sits up to 10 people in addition to their own comprehensive in-house training programs.
The Creative Collective and Jag Quimby will be judged within the North Coast region’s awards on 30 July in Maryborough, and if successful will go on to the state final presentation dinner due to be held at the Brisbane Convention & Exhibition Centre on 2 September 2011.
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