Training Options

Broadening your knowledge and skills through a training course is an excellent way to get ahead in your chosen career.

Obtaining up-to-date training can be vital when seeking a new job or first job. It is also an excellent way of improving your skills while in your current position.

Below are some of the key sources of information that can help you explore the training options available in Western Australia.

Undertaking courses through a Registered Training Organisation means that you will be acquiring skills to meet the needs of the industry and your employers as well as your own.

If you still have questions, are not sure of what to do or feel you just need to chat with someone, then call in or contact our Western Australian Career Development Centre. The centre has helpful staff and a large selection of printed material to help put you on the right track.

Career Development Centre
2nd Floor, City Central Building
166 Murray Street (Mall)
Perth WA 6000

Telephone: 061 8 9421 1344
TTY: 061 8 9421 1556
(Free Call) 1800 999 167
Facsimile: 061 8 9421 1391
Email: career.developmentcentre@det.wa.edu.au

Here are some great places to start looking at training options:


       
 

Aboriginal Economic and Employment Development Officer (AEEDO) Program (PDF) - The aim of the AEEDO Program is to promote and assist the involvement of Indigenous communities and organisations in developing locally-based enterprise, employment and training initiatives. 

  
     
  Aboriginal School-Based Traineeship Program - This program provides an integrated approach towards the education and vocational training of young Indigenous students in order to increase employment. This initiative is based on a 2 year traineeship arrangement that involves students spending three days per week at school and two days in vocational training with an employer or a registered training organisation.

For more information visit:
http://www.apprenticeships.training.wa.gov.au/asbt/

  
     
  Adult Community Education (ACE) - The ACE program is a key element of adult learning. For some people, joining a course at a learning centre becomes the first step on a pathway back to formal education and training to gain work related skills and credentials. For others, ACE courses are satisfying because of personal or social goals.    
     
       Apprenticeships and Traineeships - The Apprenticeship and Traineeship website provides an overview of the apprenticeship and traineeship system in Western Australia. The website provides information of value to jobseekers interested in apprenticeships and traineeships, current apprentices and trainees, employers interested in engaging an apprentice or trainee, employers that currently employ an apprentice or trainee, Registered Training Organisations, Group Training Schemes, New Apprenticeships Centres and other parties interested in the apprenticeship and traineeship system.
For example, jobseekers can find out how to become an apprentice or trainee and search through a list of available apprenticeships and traineeships to determine which one they would be most interested in completing. Current apprentices and trainees can also obtain information from the website that might assist questions they may have during the course of their traineeship or apprenticeship. This site also has some useful links and contact details of organisations involved in apprenticeships and traineeships that may a be of assistance.

For more information visit the Apprenticeship and Traineeship web site:
http://www.apprenticeships.training.wa.gov.au

  
     
       Become a registered training provider (RTO) - You don't have to be a college or other training provider to become an RTO. Many enterprises, in addition to their core business activities, choose to become an RTO to deliver customised, nationally recognised training to their employees.  
     
       Courses/Qualifications - A direct link to the National Training Information Service web site where you will find a list of every accredited training course available in Australia.  
     
    First Click Computer Literacy - First Click is designed to increase computer literacy among the 400 000 adult Western Australians who have no computing or Internet skills and do not want to enrol in a formal course at TAFE or University.  
     
    Group Training Schemes - provide a system whereby apprentices and trainees are indentured/registered to a central body and placed with host employers on a rotational basis to provide workplace-training experience.  
     
       GetAccess - Career Information.
This is an interactive website for Western Australians seeking career, employment and training related information and services. The site is fun, easy to navigate and contains many 'side trips' along your journey to a job or career. You'll find job and career information, training opportunities, an interactive cafe, and cool youth links. To get started click on the site map to display all of the options and services available.		  
     
       Employment Directions - The State Government, as part of its election commitments, undertook to review its labour market programs to ensure they continued to meet the needs of the community of Western Australia. The scope of this review was extended with a view to re-defining what employment means in the current global environment and developing a new vision and direction in which to take employment into the future.  
     
       Adult Literacy and Language Training - The Certificates in General Education for Adults (CGEA) provide training in reading, writing, basic maths and study skills. They can be used as an entry qualification for other TAFE courses.  
     
       Overseas students - If you are from overseas and interested in studying in Western Australia, this section will tell you all about full time courses at TAFE colleges and how to enrol.  
     
    Priority Access Policy - is an exciting new initiative aimed at using government procurement and contracting policy to increase the training and employment opportunities for young Western Australian job seekers. This site contains information on applying and registering to become a Priority Access Employer and also includes a search function of the Priority Access System for Government agencies.  
     
       Private Training Providers - This is a list of all the Registered Training Organisations Australia wide through a direct link to the National Training Information Service.  
     
       Profit from Experience - Mature age workers have extensive skills, knowledge and experience to contribute to the workplace and to society. With the changing nature of the job market in Western Australia today, this experience is vital as most workers have to prepare to make several job or career changes in their lifetime.

The Profit from Experience program is designed to help support mature age people to re-enter the workforce. It will also help employers to profit from the skills, knowledge and experience which mature age people offer.

For more information go to the Employment Directions web site.

  
     
       Programs for people with disabilities - There are numerous training providers and support organisations in WA who address the needs of people with injury, illness or disability.  
     
       Public Training Providers - A detailed list of - and direct links to - all Western Australia's public Training Providers including TAFE colleges.  
     
    Regional Access - Regional Access provides young people in regional Western Australia with improved access to regional employment / training services, career planning advice and general youth services.  
     
    Skills Recognition - Skills recognition is the acknowledgment by a training provider that a learner has gained an appropriate level of skills and knowledge that would have otherwise been developed through formal training.  
     
    South West Industry Support This area includes information on the WA Worker Assistance Program, Wage Subsidy, Special Redundancy Payment, Travel Relocation Assistance, Mortgage Rental Assistance, for those whose business is dependent on the native Timber Industry and Employment Assistance.  
     
    Tailored Courses - A national approach to vocational education and training with a focus on flexibility. It allows employers to build and structure the training to best suit their business and staff needs.  
     
    Training Packages - Provide the basic building blocks for vocational education and training programs. They define a range of pathways which means people can learn on the job, be formally trained and achieve a national qualification.   
     
    Training Resource Manual - An easy to follow manual containing a range of information on training, education and employment services in Western Australia.  
     
       VET in Schools - In recent years there has been an uptake by Western Australian schools of the opportunity to include Vocational Education and Training (VET) in the upper secondary curriculum. VET in schools now enables students to gain nationally recognised industry skills, while completing their secondary school certificate.   
     
       WA TAFE Handbook - A comprehensive guide to fulltime studies at TAFE colleges. It includes courses, a course calendar and enrolment advice.