BAA Fundamentals - Welcome to 2012 newsletter

Happy New Year and welcome to the first edition of ‘BAA Fundamentals’ for 2012.

Looking back we recognize that 2011 was a year of challenges, however, looking forward to 2012 we hope that your enthusiasm and positive energy will endure, rewarding you with a great year full of success.

Our focus in this issue is to provide you with important information, including ways you can let us know how to support you and update you on the 2012 Business Achiever Awards program. 

We appreciate as a local business owner your life is extremely busy – so we hope that this edition of BAA Fundamentals will be useful and of interest.  As always we welcome your feedback, so please send your comments to givneys@qst.newsltd.com.au.

Simone Givney

Corporate Events & Partnerships Manager

What’s in this edition of BAA Fundamentals? (Click on the heading below to go to paragraph) 

Preparing for the 2012 Business Achiever Awards

Jobs 1001

Your Vote Election 2012

What would you like to hear about?

Preparing for the 2012 Business Achiever Awards

The Business Achievers’ team are busily preparing for the 2012 season of the Business Achiever Awards.  We have some new and exciting changes in store and are looking forward to introducing you to these opportunities.

The key dates for voting etc., will be on our website (http://www.questawards.com.au/) in February – so please check in with us then to see when we will be rewarding businesses in your local area.

Keep up to date with us on Twitter and Facebook as we update daily.

Twitter: @BusAchiever 

Facebook: Business Achiever Awards

Jobs 1001

A free opportunity for you to find the right person for your business.

Skilling up a future generation of Australians is one of the country’s top priorities.

The News Community media group together with 3 leading community employment organisations have joined forces to work with you to create and place 1001 right people into their dream jobs.  

Jump onto the website and register your vacancy and the employment organisations will filter and report directly to you if there is the right candidate for your business free of charge.

The campaign will run for three months in February, March and April, and by joining the campaign, you will join other businesses around Australia committed to creating and placing Australian’s of all ages into skilled careers.

For more information please visit www.jobs1001.org.au

This site will help you learn more about the campaign, its partners as well as create a hub for employers and employees to register their interest.

We’d love for your support in this exciting initiative to help you find the right person for your business.

Your Vote Election 2012

In the first half of this year we will see State and Local governments head into election. All council areas are open for candidate nomination until January 31 with the local elections taking place on March 31.  The state election has been rumoured to be called shortly with an election day around mid February.

Quest Community Newspapers’ have launched the ‘Your Vote’ Election 2012 survey to ask about the issues affecting you, our readers, families, neighbourhoods and our way of life including health care, crime, education, traffic and household budgets.  

To tell us what you think about the current state of governance please go to: www.surveymonkey.com/s/questelectionsurvey2012

We would encourage you to send it to clients, friends, acquaintances and family members for them to also to have their say.

Information gathered through this survey will be used to drive future campaigns to lobby for stronger communities in southeast Queensland.   

What would you like to hear about?

As this newsletter is for you, we would love to hear the items and content that you would like to read about in these newsletters.

Click here to tell us or send us an email at businessachieverawards@qst.newsltd.com.au

We would like to take this opportunity to thank you for taking the time to read our awards bi-monthly newsletter.  We hope you have found it interesting and informative.  It is our goal to assist in making your involvement in the Business Achiever Awards a rewarding experience and to make the process as effortless as possible for your business.