Western Sydney is short more than 300,000 construction workers, and that number is set to peak in mid-2027. For employers, the challenge is not just finding people. It is recruiting, employing, training and supporting them without adding a full time HR function to do it.

That is exactly what NexGen Pathways does.

As a Group Training Organisation, NexGen employs apprentices and trainees directly, then places them with host businesses across construction, infrastructure, rail, logistics, resources, ICT, business and community sectors. We manage the recruitment, the payroll, the compliance and the day to day support, so host employers get a trained, motivated team member without carrying the administration load.

A large share of the people we place come through YRT, our sister Registered Training Organisation within Yalagan Group. YRT holds the qualification and delivers the training, from Business and Supply Chain Operations traineeships through to Civil Construction Plant Operations. NexGen picks up from there as the employer, so a host business gets someone who is both trained and job ready, backed by two organisations rather than one.

It is not just tools and hard hats

A big share of what NexGen places is office and warehouse work, not just site work. Business trainees go into reception, administration and project support roles with host employers who need reliable, trained staff without running their own recruitment process. Supply chain trainees go straight into warehouses and distribution centres feeding the same construction and logistics boom, learning stock control and dispatch on the job while earning a wage. Whatever the role, the model is the same: NexGen carries the employment relationship, the host business gets the benefit of a trained team member.

The numbers speak for themselves. Over 500 apprentices and trainees supported. Over 1,150 pre-employment commencements. A 94 percent completion rate. 40 percent Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander participation. Operating across NSW, Victoria and Western Australia.

With NSW's infrastructure pipeline, including the Western Sydney International Airport and Sydney Metro West, driving record demand for skilled labour, now is the time for employers to lock in a workforce pipeline that actually delivers, trained by YRT and employed through NexGen.

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