Skills resources
Open Day isn’t the only career support service motivated to enable individuals in mobilising their career path; there are a number of established frameworks, resources and training tools you can utilise to explore your areas of interest and career options. The challenge for career changers is knowing where to find this information and managing the information overload that comes with trawling the web for it.
This page centralises skills related resources from government backed sources into one accessible location.
Skills For the Information Age (SFIA)
SFIA defines the skills and competencies required by professionals who design, develop, implement, manage and protect the data and technology that power the digital world.
SFIA has developed a skills assessment framework as a consistent way of assessing and diagnosing professional skills and competencies. The SFIA Foundation has developed guidance and recommendations to help drive good practice and consistency of outcome when using the framework.
The Australian Digital Capability Framework
The Australian Digital Capability Framework describes the broad digital capabilities required by the Australian workforce.
Using common, easily understood language, and a simple, intuitive structure, the Framework can be used for multiple purposes, thereby aligning and strengthening a wide variety of efforts to build the digital capability of the nation’s workforce.
myfuture
myfuture provides resources to explore career pathways and tools to develop self-knowledge to help with career decision-making.
myfuture can be used to explore and understand industry and role based trends, exploring broadly what roles are related to which industries and the related industry associations.
Australian Skills Classification
The Australian Skills Classification (ASC) was developed by jobs and skills australia to provide a common language of skills to increase understanding and recognition of skills across occupations, sectors, and contexts.
Jobs and Skills Australia has also developed a jobs and skills atlas which provides an overview of the labour market at national, state and regional level by occupations, skills and industries.
O*Net
O*NET Program is the primary source of occupational information in the US, developed by the National Center for O*NET Development and sponsored by U.S. Department of Labor, employment & training administration.
O*Net provides comprehensive skills and occupation information. For skills, it provides data on skills (including cross-functional skills), knowledge, interests, abilities, work activities and more. For occupations, it provide data on occupations with bright outlooks, hot technology, industry, job families and more.
General Assembly
General Assembly delivers tech focus bootcamps and courses across data, design, business, and technology, with a focus on real-world expertise and innovation.
General assembly has a range of courses for different stages of career exploration, including free resources and classes that can help you conduct early stage broad research and test your knowledge.
Lumify work
Lumify delivers IT training courses for early stage career to advanced specialists, covering theory, current trends, and hands on exercises.
Lumify has partnered with industry leading vendors to deliver specialised training courses in Agile and Scrum, Application and Web Development, Business Analysis and Architecture, Business Applications, Cloud Computing and Virtualisation, Cyber Security, Data, Analytics and AI, End User Applications, IT Infrastructure and Networks, IT Service Management and DevOps, Professional Development, and Project and Programme Management.
edX
edX is an online learning platform founded by Harvard and MIT as an experiment to make the world’s best education available to everyone.
edX provides online learning across nearly every career discipline, from artificial intelligence and robotics to sustainability and public health. Together with universities and organizations at the forefront of their fields, edX offers thousands of job-relevant programs designed to give every ambitious learner a path to achievement.
Google Certificates
Google certificates provides flexible online training programs in high-growth fields including cyber security, data analytics, digital commerce & e-marketing, it support, project management and UX design.
Google’s courses are delivered via Coursera for free, providing the opportunity to learn and validate your interest before investing financially in your career development.
