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In today's tight talent market, employers must be more willing to accept candidates who might not be "revenue-generating resources" on day one, but are driven, capable learners, a training specialist says.

Generation Australia partners with employers to create 12-week courses that prepare, place, and support unemployed candidates into careers that might otherwise be inaccessible, and finds many participants possess "that thing you can't test for", says head of partnerships and business development Dylan Turnbull.

"The reality is, if people are willing to undertake 12 weeks', Monday-to-Friday, nine-to-five unpaid training," they usually tick the boxes of learning mindset, growth mindset, appetite to develop and resilience, which reduces their risk of being a bad hire, he tells HR Daily.

It's an approach embraced by organisations including Telstra, Microsoft, Google, Salesforce, Australia Post and Woolworths. Tech employer Avanade, which has been looking at ways to develop new pipelines of talent, recently allocated nearly half of the 30 spots in its academy program to GA grads...