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OldroydDirect training is tailored to integrate the full time permanent placement into Australian business culture to provide a working interface with your Australian export staff and management. OldroydDirect provides a Replacement Guarantee backed by 50% of the placement fee for the placements it trains.
The training is delivered over the first 3 months of placement generally in 6 sessions of 4 hours per fortnight, 24 hours in total.
Note: The recruit accepts a reduction in salary through the 3 month training probation period to cover the cost of their training.
 The special focus is on language and cultural knowledge to facilitate the recruit taking up his/her role in the Australian export business environment with topics drawn from Australian business culture, English for business and English for export procedures.
The topics themselves are not the subject of study but rather vehicles for the study of culture - 'how we do things here'. The training is not intended as part of a nationally accredited course for which qualifications are awarded.
The overall aim is the 'Australianisation' of the recruit to ease them into their new and unaccustomed Australian work surroundings and help them gain confidence operating within it.
The recruit develops intercultural competence through cultural briefing – the ‘what’ and the ‘why’ of Australian business culture and cultural skills - how to behave, act and react appropriately.
The training uses two approaches, a cognitive approach using such methods as reading and discussions, and an experiential approach involving games, role plays and simulations in which the recruit learns the ‘dos and don’ts’ of their Australian work environment.
By acquiring heightened sensitivity to Australian value systems, the recruit becomes more objective in relation to the underlying assumptions, beliefs and values which inform their own behaviour.
This new awareness or sensitisation develops attitudes of openness and tolerance which help the recruit leave their ethnocentrism behind and interact effectively in the real world of cultural encounters in the Australian office. Practically speaking, they learn to accommodate and appreciate the ‘foreign’, to feel comfortable living and working within it, functioning as successful global citizens.
Training content is determined in consultation drawing from the list of topics set out in the following three areas:
Click the links below:
> Australian Business Culture
> English For Business
> English For Export Procedures
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