AKG has released our Innovate Reconciliation Action Plan (RAP) 2026 – 2028.
The RAP outlines AKG’s vision for reconciliation and the role that we can play over the next two years to build a stronger role for Indigenous Australians in the nature of the services we deliver and find opportunities to promote and support reconciliation.
In June and July 2024, AKG, formerly MAX, distributed surveys to customers in employment services via email and text message.
The survey of 16 to 23 questions received 838 responses and asked about respondents’ access to various transport options, how transport has affected their employment status and their opinions solutions to transport-related barriers.
We also received responses from more than 301 businesses across Australia to a 16-question survey about how transport related infrastructure factors into business location decisions. We also asked for their opinions on the impact transport barriers had on their ability to recruit staff and their solutions to mitigate these impacts.
AKG released the results of a survey into the impact of digital skills and resources on finding work. The Digital Divide white paper, releases under MAX Employment, seeks to provide a better understanding of the challenges that people with unequal access to digital technology and skills encounter in securing and maintaining employment.
An often-repeated claim about digital technology is that it opens up a wealth of economic opportunities. While this may be true for some, those who don’t have the skills or the access to digital resources are effectively denied these opportunities. When you consider that those who lack reliable internet access, their own PC, or solid digital skills, often experience economic, physical, or cultural disadvantage, it becomes a serious equity issue. Digital skills, while important for Australia’s economic future, are far more wide-reaching in their impact as digital technology becomes enmeshed in our everyday lives.
At AKG, our vision is to support people from different backgrounds, cultures and communities to deliver life-changing opportunities and build a better future. Through our Reconciliation Action Plan, we are committed to ensuring we achieve this for Indigenous customers and communities.
The current RAP was delivered under the MAX brand.
New research by AKG, formerly known as MAX, and not-for-profit, HOST International, has revealed that only 1 in 5 (21%) skilled migrants in Australia have their overseas qualifications recognised for employment, despite skills shortages in critical sectors around the nation.
New research by Australia’s largest employment services provider, MAX Solutions, has revealed that 30% of employers are reluctant to hire older workers, despite employers identifying a range of essential workplace skills at which older workers tend to excel compared with younger peers.
A majority of large employers intend to increase the size of their Indigenous Australian workforce in 2021. But those looking for work remain very cautious about the future, according to a new MAX report on Closing the Gap.
We surveyed our Indigenous Australian customers at the end of 2020 on topics including the support they most value from employers and their expectations for the future. A separate poll of large and medium size employer partners was launched at the same time.
