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44 BUSINESS 2018 COMMONWEALTH GAMES HOST CITY MONDAY MAY 26 2014 GOLDCOASTBULLETIN.COM.AU
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MONDAY BUSINESS WITH JENNY ROGERS & MARTIN RASINI
ONYX Property Group’s marketing and public relations consultant, Teek Ireland, has been given the added responsibility of sales and marketing manager.
Ms Ireland worked with Onyx since its launch five years ago and took on a temporary sales role last year, achieving record results.
She will now be responsible for the marketing and sales of Onyx Property Group’s $65 million portfolio, which includes Lavender Hill, an 85-home project at North Lakes and the award-winning Allisee Villa project at Paradise Point.
Onyx Property Group,is associated with Chris Bolger and Adam Lacey who launched it in 2009.
Teek finds nichein Onyx sales
Helping anyone to find that jobGOLD Coast jobseekers, employers and community organisations came together last Tuesday to officially open MAX Employment’s Varsity Lakes office.
MAX Employment wasrecently awarded the disability management service contract for Varsity Lakes by the Department of Social Services and the new premises were opened by director Deborah Homewood and federal MP Karen Andrews.
Southportperfect forchef schoolTHE investment in Southportshows no signs of abating, withShafston College the latest tobenefit from the suburb’srenewal.
College founder KeithLloyd has just poured $1 mil-lion into building a trainingkitchen at the college’s GoldCoast campus that would givemany small hoteliers a dose ofheartburn.
Fitted out with high-endElectrolux appliances andwall-to-wall stainless steel, thekitchen will be used bybudding cooks aiming tobecome master chefs.
Shafston’s Gold Coast cam-pus has just introduced aDiploma of Hospitality forAustralian students, who willuse the new training facilities.
Mr Lloyd said while the in-flux of overseas students to theGold Coast has slowed sincethe dollar climbed, domesticstudent numbers remainstrong.
He believes the Gold Coastis perfectly positioned to takeadvantage of the expectedgrowth in jobs in the hospitali-ty and event sectors.
“As the tourism capital,there will be a need for stu-dents on the Gold Coast oncethey complete their studies,”Mr Lloyd said.
“However, they can alsotake the skills with them towork anywhere in the world.
“I am also a believer ingoing back to basics and teach-
ing old-fashioned skills such asgood service.”
Reece Kiernander, managerat the Gold Coast campus, saidthe new Service Skills Acad-emy qualified for federal gov-ernment vocational educationfee help.
“That means the students’tuition is paid for and they onlyhave to pay it back once theyare earning more than$50,000,” he said.
“The government is lookingto place people in jobs and thisis exactly the kind of coursethat will produce job-readyemployees.
“Shafston tries to concen-trate on offering courses forwhich the job market is strongrather than something that istrendy. We believe the hospi-tality sector is going to seehuge growth, especially withthe Commonwealth Games,the light rail stop just metresfrom the college doors and re-newed tourism numbers.”
The course will combinepractical and online study,with between 15 to 20 students
per class. Chef-trainer DavidFryer, one of three teachers,has worked at five-star hotelsincluding as executive chef atthe Sheraton in London, theSofitel and Jupiters Casino onthe Gold Coast.
He said he hopes many ofhis students will do the samewith their careers.
“I have gone back to teach-ing because I decided I wantedto share what I have learnedthroughout my career, and thehours are a lot better,” he said.
“My goal is to take the stu-dents to a level where theycould take up a position as asous chef in a hotel, or becomea chef in their own restaurant.
“I continue to do contractcheffing so I stay current withthe trends and I can pass thoseskills on to the students.”
Mr Fryer said the $1 millionkitchen was top notch, with“better equipment than someof the small hotels I’ve workedin”.
“It’s a great investment bythe college in Southport,” hesaid.
Students are provided withtheir own knife box, whichthey get to keep after eightweeks, uniform and safetygear.
“We teach them everythingfrom basic knife skills, healthand safety requirements,through to costing, businessand management skills,” MrFryer said.
“They will have everythingat their fingertips to be able toproduce a five-star-qualitymeal.”
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BUSINESS:Service Skills AcademyLOCATION:Nerang Street, SouthportMANAGER:Reece KiernanderPRODUCTDiploma of HospitalityINTAKE15-20 students
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Start-up company on standby for even bigger accoladesGOLD Coast start-up com-pany goStandby, which thismonth launched a mobile-phone app that enables directlast-minute tour and eventsbookings, is in the running foran innovation award.
The company has been list-ed as a contender for AnthillMagazine’s Smart 100 Awards,Australia’s largest awards pro-gram dedicated to innovation,whose winners are to be an-
nounced on May 30. Their appenables people to instantlybook tours and activities oc-curring that day or the follow-ing day directly from theirsmartphone.
It eliminates the need to calltour desks or check availabilityon websites, streamlining thebooking process.
Users simply open the app,look at what is about to departand book over the phone.
Nathan Challen, the co-founder of goStandby, said thedecision by Anthill to includethe company in the Top 100awards is a real feather in thecap “especially as we are onlyjust out of the start gate”.
Mr Challen, whose go-Standby co-founders are Brit-ney Marsden, Jacob Turnerand Justin McPherson, saidthe company has a database of7000 tour and events opera-
tors nationwide and has madethe app simple for them to use.
“We send them a link, theygo to the control panel, seetheir product and put in the in-formation as to what is avail-able so that people can book,”he said.
“Nobody has been able todo it before so we think wehave something special.
“The app is available in theapp store and we are working
with tour operators on theGold Coast and elsewhere inAustralia to put it on the map.
“We also spreading theword through social media.”
The goStandby conceptwon the first Gold Coast Start-up Weekend in 2013 and thecompany has spent a year de-veloping the app.
A saleable model couldeven see it introduced in othercountries. goStandby.com.au staff.
JENNY ROGERS
Teek Ireland.
