Workplace RelationsTIPS AND HINTS
Being prepared will save you valuable time and hassle, and ensure the RPL skills assessment process is relatively stress free.
Here are a few tips and hints:
- Be prepared to talk about your job roles and your work history. Bring your resume or jot down a few points about where you have worked (paid and unpaid) and what you did.
- Bring your position description and any performance appraisals you have from any building and construction enterprises or facilities that you have worked in.
- Consider the possibilities for workplace contact. Are you in a workplace that is supporting your goal to get qualified? Would you feel comfortable to have Master Builders contact your workplace or previous workplaces so your skills can be validated?
- Think about who can confirm your skill level. Think about current or recent supervisors who have seen you work in the past 18 months and will be able to confirm your skills. Master Builders will need to contact them. You may also have community contacts or even clients themselves who can vouch for your skill level.
- Collect any certificates from in-house training or formal training you have done.
- Speak to us about other ways you can show your skills in the building and construction industry. For example, letters from employers, records of your professional development sessions, employers or clients in related industries or government agencies, acknowledgements, workplace forms (as long as they don't show client details) or other relevant documents.
For more information about skills assessments, call us on 1300 136 002 or email licensing@masterbuilders.asn.au.