Skills Performed at Each Level of the Australian Qualifications Framework
Certificate I
The worker will normally be engaged in a workplace in which they:
- Demonstrate knowledge by recall in a narrow range of areas
- Demonstrate basic practical skills, such as the use of relevant tools
- Perform a sequence of routine tasks under clear direction
- Receive and pass on messages or information
Certificate II
The worker will normally be engaged in a workplace in which they:
- Demonstrate basic operational knowledge in a moderate range of areas
- Apply a defined range of skills
- Apply known solutions to a limited range of predictable problems
- Perform a range of tasks where choice between a limited range of options is required
- Assess and record information from varied sources
- Take limited responsibility for their own outputs in work and learning
Certificate III
The worker will normally be engaged in a workplace in which they:
- Demonstrate some relevant theoretical knowledge
- Apply a range of well-developed skills
- Apply known solutions to a variety of predictable problems
- Perform processes that require a range of well-developed skills where some discretion and judgement is required
- Interpret available information using discretion and judgement
- Take responsibility for their own outputs in work and learning
- Take limited responsibility for the output of others
Certificate IV
The worker will normally be engaged in a workplace in which they:
- Demonstrate understanding of a broad knowledge base incorporating theoretical concepts
- Apply solutions to a defined range of predictable problems
- Identify and apply skill and knowledge areas to a wide variety of contexts, in some cases in-depth
- Identify, analyse and evaluate information from a variety of sources
- Take responsibility for their own outputs in relation to specified quality standards
- Take limited responsibility for the quantity and quality of the output of others
Diploma
The worker will normally be engaged in a workplace in which they:
- Demonstrate understanding of a broad knowledge base incorporating theoretical concepts, in some cases in substantial depth
- Analyse and plan approaches to technical problems or management requirements
- Transfer and apply theoretical concepts and/or technical or creative skills to a range of situations
- Evaluate information, using it in forecasting for planning or research purposes
- Take responsibility for their own outputs in relation to broad quantity and quality parameters
- Take some responsibility for the achievement of group outcomes
Advanced Diploma
The worker will normally be engaged in a workplace in which they:
- Demonstrate understanding of specialized knowledge with depth in some areas
- Analyse, diagnose, design and execute judgements across a broad range of technical or management functions
- Generate ides through the analysis of information and concepts at an abstract level
- Demonstrate a command of wide-ranging, highly specialized technical, creative or conceptual skills
- Demonstrate accountability for personal outputs within broad parameters
- Demonstrate accountability for personal and group outcomes within broad parameters
