Workplace Assessor
SoA Workplace Assessment
Business, Education & Industry
Learning Method: Correspondence with online support

Career opportunities include: Workplace Assessor, Traineeship Assessor, Apprenticeship Assessor, VET Adviser, Compliance Officer, Assessment Tools Designer.

Industries include: vocational education and training, government, community, corporate, all industry and small business, and some non-vocational areas.

Workplace assessors:

• Plan and organise assessment for participants
  
• Develop assessment tools to be used in assessment
• Assess the competence of participants
  
• Participate in assessment validation

Employability Skills are skills that apply across a variety of jobs and life contexts. They are sometimes referred to as key skills, core skills, life skills, essential skills, key competencies, necessary skills, and transferable skills. Industry’s preferred term is Employability Skills.

Employability Skills are defined as ‘skills required not only to gain employment, but also to progress within an enterprise so as to achieve one's potential and contribute successfully to enterprise strategic directions’.

There are eight Employability Skills: communication, teamwork, problem solving, initiative and enterprise, planning and organising, self-management, learning, and technology.

You can review the Employability Skills for this qualification at: http://employabilityskills.training.com.au