For the individual, your worth to employers could take on new dimensions with a qualification in Training and Assessment. Career opportunities include positions as workplace trainer, workplace assessor, training coordinator, workplace performance auditor, vocational education teacher and even staff recruitment consultant.

For the business, the training function is a critical factor in the continuous improvement process that drives a business to a brighter future. Training provided to staff needs to be accurate, timely and appropriate and one important strategy to achieve these objectives is for the business to develop its own staff as qualified professional trainers.

Consider the possibilities if your staff trainers could:

• Identify critical training needs
• Train and assess staff in key work tasks
• Ensure new staff to get up to speed more quickly
• Assist with staff selections and appraisals
• Identify and reduce staff issues
• Enhance knowledge transfer
• Improve training processes

Your business will benefit as a result of key staff involving themselves in the training process, a key step in developing a learning culture. 

The Australian Management Academy provides the following training programs in Training and Assessment:

• TAA40104 Certificate IV in Training and Assessment
• Skills sets in Training and Assessment