Giving people the power to do great work.
Community Engagement Project
We offer opportunities to build skills
and deliver outcomes for communities.
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Turn provides opportunities for people to help themselves, their friends and their networks to do great work
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Turn offers easy-to-use tools to get great work – whether it's your next job, your first job or a start-up enterprise
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Turn shifts power back to jobseekers in their dealings with employers, governments and government appointed providers
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Turn is based in Australia, but has a mission to help people do great work anywhere in the world.
About
Team
Donovan John Szypura, founder of Turn and director of programs, wears many hats. Donovan has an Associate Degree in Adult Continuing Education and Teaching (Swiss Federation of Adult Learning). His previous career in the advertising and marketing industry builds the backbone when developing and delivering creative and innovative Turn programs.
Mathew Fagan is a regular contractor on Turn projects. Mathew holds bachelor's degrees in law and arts (communication) and has held senior positions in government and the private sector. Mathew is a writer and negotiator and has recently focused on securing major projects for clients in the community and not-for-profit sector.
Products and Services
Turn offers direct services that give people the power to do great work. Turn also partners with other organisations with a mission to empower people and build communities.
Training Program
Matchbox empowers jobseekers and micro-businesses to secure employment in the competitive job market through creating smart and creative campaigns and by building employability skills. Participants leave Matchbox equipped with a powerful plan and a customised personal marketing campaign.
The Matchbox program transforms lives and enables job creation and job placement, not only through traditional methods but by reigniting peoples' confidence to self-promote and reactivate personal and business networks.
Community Engagement Project
Backswing projects have three parallel goals. First, to deliver a great outcome of lasting benefit to local communities. Second, to develop the employability skills of each of the participants in the project group. And third, to establish self-functioning networks of people who help each other to do great work long after the Backswing project has been completed.
Backswing projects are about people working together to face challenges, identify their strengths, aim at a sweet spot and follow through with impact.
Online Community Network
Meshwork is an online community for jobs in specific regions or industries. It offers a solution to connect employers with jobseekers in communities, while also improving employment and training services coordination.
Each Meshwork community is designed for and owned by, an organisation that has an interest in achieving job outcomes in specific geographic regions or specific industries.
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Backswing article Mercury, October 2019
Backswing article Glenorchy Gazette, July 2019
Backswing article Sorell Times, May 2019
Backswing on ABC News, April 2018
Backswing on ABC News, August 2017
Backswing on The Senior, December 2017
Backswing article in Huon News, June 2017
Backswing article in Huon News, August 2017
Matchbox article in Cygnet Channel Classifieds, May 2016
Matchbox article in ACCESS, October 2014
Matchbox article in The Mercury, April 2014
Media
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Turn has secured major projects in Southern Tasmania and delivers programs for diverse groups of all ages, including high school students, youth programs, apprenticeship centres, parenting programs, arts organisations, employment service providers, and vocational training organisations.
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Contact
Turn (Australia)
Phone: 1300 315 559
info(at)turn.net.au