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CALLING YOU: Do you have friends taking a break from the travel industry?

If you or someone you know has stepped away from their travel industry to raise children, try another career or start a small business, here's a big CALL OUT that'll entice you to return.

If you or someone you know has stepped away from their travel industry to raise children, try another career or start a small business, here’s a big CALL OUT that’ll entice you to return.

Now is the time to talk to former travel industry colleagues (especially those expressing an interest in making a Backstreet Boys-like comeback) and point out that the timing is right to step back into the industry they once loved.

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Data released by the Australian Federation of Travel Agents reveals 10.6 million Aussies embarked on an overseas trip during the past 12 months with 70 per cent of departures booking at least one part of their journey through an Australian Travel Agent.

The numbers are set to climb further in the next year.  That’s a lot of work for Australia’s estimated 28,000 agents with travel companies big and small boosting ranks to satisfy demand from a nation intoxicated by tourism.

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More people are travelling than ever before

While many recruits will be rookies learning the craft from scratch, recruiters are asking hibernating Agents to bring the knowledge and passion back and offering the training needed to refresh skills and master the modern technology.

And while joining a bricks-and-mortar agency is the obvious choice it’s far from the only employment option with some companies offering the chance to work from home and others promising a swag of behind-the-scenes roles from training and staff welfare to product management, business development and administration. For example, Flight Centre Travel Group’s Travel Partners offer experienced travel consultants the opportunity to work from home.

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Time to get out from hibernating

Flight Centre Travel Group is currently hiring and recruiters have been tasked with securing the best candidates and helping the right people navigate the selection process that starts with a simple online submission.

The 40 subsidiary brands under the Flight Centre umbrella offer everything from discount holidays and flexible hours to tailored wellbeing programs, with the company’s Peopleworks director Carole Cooper explaining benefits have been rolled out to create a flexible work environment for those with little tackers back at base.

“We rely heavily on parents, they play a crucial role in our business, and it’s important we offer mums and dads the support they need as they raise children, so we are working to create an environment that eases some of the pressure parents typically experience.”

Carole Cooper, Flight Centre Peopleworks Director

“The parental leave program is a key addition to our overall benefits program and will help minimise the financial strain on new parents when they take time out from the workforce, then when the time is right, to return. The Goodstart agreement makes it more affordable to re-enter the workforce in a full or part-time capacity.’’

Carole has publicly declared that all roles with FCTG are now flexible in an effort to retain and re-engage the industry’s best travel consultants.

 

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Do you know anyone interested in returning to the travel industry?