MAJOR SUCCESS FOR WORLDWIDE WORKERS THROUGH ESBEC

Matthew Major completed the NEIS course through ESBEC in 1997.

In his own words: "The benefit of the NEIS course is that it made me sit down and really think about the enterprise thoroughly and completely instead of just having good ideas which were not properly developed". 

NEIS provided a sound starting block for Worldwide Workers, which is now an international recruitment business employing some 12,000 people.  As a budding entrepreneur Major realised the importance of creating a solid foundation for his business. 

Initially he wanted to write his business plan from home, without attending the six-week NEIS programme. 

However, he realised the necessity of having a starting block with focus - it made him ask the important questions before setting out on his enterprise.

He also gained much from working with his peers, facing up to comments and criticisms with like-minded people. The course provided him with extra confidence in a constructive structured course environment context.

Worldwide Workers began operations in mid 1997.  Its head office is at 234 Sussex Street, Darling Harbour.  It now boasts offices in Cairns, Melbourne, Holland, Germany, Norway, Sweden, Finland and Iceland.

Backpackers can register with Worldwide Workers overseas, at one of these centres and when they arrive in Australia they present their visas so as they can begin work in one of the following areas: bar work, fruit picking, banking and finance, reception and secretarial work, warehouse work, teaching, nursing or envelope stuffing. 

Backpackers can also join the Worldwide Workers Club, for $99.00 - which allows them priority access to Worldwide Pickers, and other discounts, as well as $300.00 worth of free internet access. 

All in all there are 10, 000 Worldwide Workers Club members and another 2,000 casual members.

Matthew Major has therefore established a highly successful, lucrative business, thanks to ESBEC, and to summarise he says: "If you are serious about business, the NEIS course is a great start."

It is through the assistance of ESBEC, established in 1985, with funding sources from state, federal and local government, and sponsorship from local businesses and organizations, that such business success stories are possible. 

By delivering services on behalf of state government like NEIS, as a registered training organization and other programmes, like the women's mentoring programme, ESBEC allows for individuals to realise their success.

ESBEC delivers NEIS services in Outer West, Parramatta (Central Sydney), Chatswood, Dee Why (Northern Beaches) and Eastern Sydney and inner city.

ESBEC's  "mission statement" is to provide high quality practical assistanceand business skills training, which builds and creates sustainable local enterprises, and job opportunities in the eastern suburbs and Sydney metropolitan area.

ESBEC has a five-star rating from DEWR because it is in tune with what the client needs, and being a BEC it has a lot of add on services to compliment its NEIS programme, as well as strong linkages into the business community and a personal approach to relationships formed with the client. 

ESBEC is one of 150 BECs operating around Australia and one of 49 BECs in NSW. 

The Director of ESBEC, David Baumgarten, feels that the real value of the NEIS program comes from creating the valuable grounding, foundation, discipline and practical application of business principals: it is also about making business dreams into reality or putting a lifestyle and destiny into one's own hands.

One of the main successes of ESBEC is the Business Buddy mentor program, with more online services being offered all the time.  It has been positioned to assist NEIS businesses that have been going for more than two years, and that require feedback. 

Another vision is to reposition small business services, with an identifiable branding mix of services on offer to establish Newstart businesses.  There are also changes planned at ESBEC and with a dedicated NEIS director online for all NEIS participants, they can encourage NEIS participants to network with each other and support each others businesses, supported by a NSW business directory,  www.neisdirectory.com.au

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