The meeting, which will be held at 11.30am at the Mercure Ballarat Hotel and Convention Centre, aims to help workers better understand their options.

Ballarat employment agencies yesterday told The Courier while they had not yet had any workers knocking on their doors, they expected to see them in the coming days.

Online Personnel Ballarat branch manager Katrina Maurer said she expected some may look at transferring to the rail industry, which the branch offered labour hire for.

At Tracy the Placement People, site manager John McKinnon said they helped a number of redundant workers when Ballarat Goldfields slashed jobs last year.

After those job losses, about 30 workers used the State Government-funded Skill Up program to equip themselves with extra licences to help them to get other jobs.

Australian Industry Group Ballarat region manager Kay Macaulay said senior and middle management level employees may have to leave Ballarat to find work.

"It has flow-on effects, not just with the jobs that have been lost out of the gold mine, it's the small businesses who might have been doing outsourcing for them," Ms Macaulay said.

Ms Macaulay said while businesses needed to employ and retrain workers to keep skills in the town, it was hard, with many still recovering from last year's economic climate.