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Sarina Russo Job Access\u00a0employment consultants Trudy McDonald, Julia Layton and Adam McIlvanie, at rear, with manager Karen Miller … aiming for an upbeat feel in their new office<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

July 3, 2015<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Federal Government’s shake-up of unemployment contracts – which saw two jobs agencies close their doors on June 30 in the South Burnett – has had its flipside with the opening of four new shopfronts on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

In Kingaroy, Sarina Russo Job Access is located at 165a Haly Street, although the entrance is in Glendon Street (next door to the Glendon Street cafe).<\/p>\n

Neato Employment Services is settling in to the old Lifeline store, Shop 1\/16 Alford Street (near Probation and Parole).<\/p>\n

Max Employment has opened its doors at the old Havala’s clothing store, near the Kingaroy Mail Centre, at 178 Kingaroy Street.<\/p>\n

And Advanced Personnel Management (APM) is at 72 Youngman Street, just down from the Avoca Street intersection.<\/p>\n

The four agencies have each been awarded a five-year contract to deliver the Federal Government’s new \u201cjobactive\u201d job search scheme.<\/p>\n

Sarina Russo Job Access manager Karen Miller said it had been hectic getting everything ready for the July 1 deadline, but the agency’s Kingaroy opening on Wednesday had gone off very well.<\/strong><\/p>\n

She said the music and balloons had attracted a \u00a0lot of attention from passers-by.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The company’s motto is “energising people, enhancing lives” which was why they were aiming for an upbeat feel in the office.<\/p>\n

Karen said that since the opening, staff have been kept busy with referrals sent to them by Centrelink.<\/p>\n

She said Centrelink was assigning job seekers to one of the four agencies, but the clients also have the capacity to choose.<\/p>\n

“They can transfer across to you if they are more happy with your service,” Karen said.<\/p>\n

Sarina Russo Job Access will also have an office open for two days a week at Cherbourg, and weekly at Graham House in Murgon.<\/p>\n

The other three agencies are also expected to have shopfronts or access points in other South Burnett towns, as well.<\/p>\n

It was originally feared the Federal Government shake-up of the job search industry could cause a loss of jobs in the area, but so far that doesn’t look like being the case.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Karen was formerly manager of Employment Services Queensland, one of the two employment agencies in Kingaroy that lost their contracts in the Federal Government shuffle.<\/p>\n

She was quickly re-hired by Sarina Russo and now joins three other former ESQ staff at the new shopfront.<\/p>\n

Other former ESQ staff are believed to have been picked up by one of the other three agencies.<\/p>\n

On Tuesday, South Burnett CTC CEO Nina Temperton said all CTC Employment staff in Kingaroy and Murgon have also found new jobs, or chosen to retire.<\/p>\n

This means it looks like there has been no net job loss – in Kingaroy at least – through the shake-up.<\/p>\n

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