ASI had a strong focus on promoting steel as a career path in 2025-2026, including:
- Developing online resources to attract and educate young people regarding career pathways, qualifications and emerging roles in the steel industry.
- Meeting with the NSW Department of Education curriculum team to discuss how the ASI might support schools in creating meaningful links to the metals industry. ASI is developing a plan to create storyboards for video and interview content for possible use in the schools, focusing on steel as a career pathway.
- Partnering with ASI members at school careers expos to educate careers advisers, parents and students. Twenty schools were visited, representing an average 500 students per visit.
- Continuing to offer job placement opportunities in steel through the ASI’s jobs website.
- Presenting student lectures and awards at the Queensland University of Technology, University of NSW and James Cook University, among others.
