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Students and careers – YIR 2025-2026

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, connecting the ASI with more than 10,000 students.
  • Continuing to offer job placement opportunities in steel through the ASI’s jobs website (http://jobs.steel.org.au/).

  • Presenting student lectures and awards at the Queensland University of Technology, University of NSW and James Cook University, among others.

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