Most recruitment focuses on the placement. We focus on what comes next: the culture and support that help people stay and thrive.
Too often, First Nations employment is run on deficit thinking: treating a person as a risk to manage rather than a strength to build on. The numbers below are what that produces. We are here to change it, by changing the workplace, not the person.
the First Nations employment gap at the 2021 Census: 55.7 per cent employed against 77.7 per cent of other Australians. It measures the doors workplaces have opened, not the talent ready to walk through them.
of First Nations employees rate their workplace culturally safe. Where that safety exists, people stay and progress, which is the condition Buneen is built to strengthen.
of major employers that track First Nations retention report it is lower than for the rest of their workforce. It is the clearest signal of where the workplace, not the worker, can get stronger.
When First Nations employees don't stay beyond the first 18 months, it's an opportunity to look beyond recruitment and strengthen the workplace experience that follows. We work with employers who are ready to explore how culture, support, and inclusion can enable people to thrive long term.
Trained to ask good questions and lead differently from day one.
In the team, so people can speak openly about cultural and psychological safety.
For both the employee and the manager, so the placement holds.
We provide quarterly check-ins with both the new hire and their manager to explore opportunities for growth and strengthened outcomes. We offer cultural advisory support to enhance understanding and connection, and we stay engaged to ensure each placement can thrive and sustain success.
First Nations-led throughout, not a mainstream recruiter that added a diversity line.
If a workplace isn't ready yet, we'll say so, and we'll help build what's needed. We'd rather set strong foundations than rush a placement.
We walk alongside a whole career, not a single placement. We're a First Nations employment partner, not labour hire or a diversity-hire supplier. For standalone cultural-safety or psychological-safety programs, we point you to Buneen Consulting.
We work as one program, not a list of services. Most employers start with the cohort package: everything a placement needs to hold, for a set investment per person. Add-ons extend the support across the team and the year.
All-inclusive, per placement. The whole engagement in one.
Extend the support when you are ready.
Add-ons and whole-of-team work are scoped to your roles and shared on enquiry. No two workforces are the same, so no two engagements are.
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