Skills Recognition
Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL)/ Recognition of Current Competencies (RCC)
What is it?
RPL is a chance to have your skills, knowledge and experience valued and count towards formal qualifications.
RPL is about recognising your skills and knowledge, no matter where, when or how you gained them. You may have gained your skills through formal or informal training and education, work experience, general life experience such as sporting activities and volunteer work and/or committee activities.
Your skills and knowledge are matched with formal competency standards so you can gain formal recognition.
Why apply for it?
Applying successfully for RPL may:
- Improve your job security
- Reduce the time in a training room and/or improve work/life balance
- Reduce study load
The process
Prior to applying for RPL, a training plan is provided regarding the qualifications you are enroled in. Please turn over pages for details of the ‘evidence list’ which identifies documents you can provide to assist the RPL process.
Further information about the RPL will be discussed at the induction workshop.
Workshop day at our Fullarton training centre:
- The RPL process is demonstrated and explained
- This will lead into completing a ’self assessment’ document
- Followed by competency interviews
After the RPL process you will be notified of:
- RPL granted for Unit/units
- Partial RPL
- Further evidence required
- Units to be completed
What can you expect from the RPL experience…..?
You can expect to be treated fairly, flexibilly and with respect. You will be given appropriate information and support. For your RPL application to be successful you will need to take the “drivers seat’ and meet all the requirements for RPL.
Evidence List
It is important you provide as much information of your previous experience in the community services sector as is available.
Documents that may be available include but are not limited to:
- Brief CV or work history
- Certificates/ results of assessment (including list of subjects)
- Certificates/ results of assessment – interstate course
- Certificates/ results of assessment – university
- Current manual handling & senior first aid certificates
- Results/statements of attendance/certificates – vendor training courses, in-House courses, workshops, seminars, symposiums
- Results/statements of attendance/certificates – club courses eg. first aid, officials, surf life saving etc.
- Job descriptions
- Letter from employer stating time employed with the organisation and your job title
- Evidence of organisation’s in house training
- Diaries/task sheets/job sheets/log books
- Membership or relevant professional associations
- Hobbies/interests/special skills outside work
- references/letter from previous & current employers/supervisors
- Industry awards
- Minutes from meetings, sample of your own work and other documents that you have contributed to or developed
- Emails, records, reports, statements that demonstrate communication with internal and external clients, documents issued with clients or colleagues and how they are addressed and other matters relating to your role in a range of context and situations
- Any other documentation that may demonstrate industry experience
Credit Transfer
Credit transfer assesses the initial course or subject that the individual is using to claim access to, or the award of credit in, the destination course to determine the extent to which it is equivalent to the required learning outcomes, competency outcomes, or standards in a qualification. This may include credit transfer based on formal learning that is outside the AQF framework.
