TAE40116 Certificate IV in Training and Assessment – Once you have it what do you do now? How to put yourself on the map.
By Cyril Wood
Over many years I have taught the Certificate IV in
Training and Assessment in its various forms and for at least five
different RTOs. During that time hundreds of students have come and
gone, successfully completing the course and heading
off into the world to become a VET trainer/teacher. To help them get
their first teaching job I have offered this advice.
Tips for finding that gig with your TAE.
Getting your first training opportunity with your
TAE can be a challenge. Being a newbie, full of enthusiasm is great, but
you need to know how to catch the interest of an RTO which is looking
for trainers. One of the key things that made
my job easier when trainers sent me their resume was a mapping
document. Never heard of one? Well read on.
You won’t necessarily have dealt with this during
your TAE course, but I tell my students to prepare a document which
matches up their skills and qualifications to the courses they wish to
teach.
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Identify your current vocational skills and experience and map them to
the qualification or units of competency you see in the job
advertisement. -
If you are approaching an organisation on the chance of some work,
research what is on their scope. Map your current vocational skills and
experience to the courses or units of competency you feel confident in
training.
If you do this and submit this document along with
the normal resume you will catch the attention of the recruiter. It
saves them time working out where your skills fit, makes their job
easier and could definitely be the difference between
an interview or being left on the “thank you” but “no thank you” pile.
Good luck with the search. There will be something out there for you.
We would love to hear from you. Please feel free
to share your experience with us along with any tips you would like to
share with others.
2 comments
Chris
Like Cyril, I have been teaching this subject for many years and I know it is a life changing course and I’d like to share what my students have told me. John, a bodybuilder with a good brain and no qualifications from one of Katherine’s most notorious ‘hard’ families was working as a security guard at a mine site. We got talking one day and he broached the subject of whether I thought he had the brains to do the course. I said YES of course, because I had seen him train other people in the gym. He started the course and found he loved teaching, and his research and computer skills improved out of sight. He contacted me two years later and he was a mine site supervisor at the uranium mine in Jabiru – and said that it was the qualification that him the job.
And then there is Emily ( I have changed her name). Unemployed mother of three, divorced, been to prison for drug offences. We met at a coven meeting but I won’t go there. She also did the course with me and within 6 months of finishing was working as an LLN teacher here in Katherine at the university. A year later she was in Melbourne running a Community Education Centre. Now she has her own business and travels the country motivating people to buy her products that enable the recycling of plastic waste.
So yes – it changes lives
Chris
Like Cyril, I have been teaching this subject for many years and I know it is a life changing course and I’d like to share what my students have told me. John, a bodybuilder with a good brain and no qualifications from one of Katherine’s most notorious ‘hard’ families was working as a security guard at a mine site. We got talking one day and he broached the subject of whether I thought he had the brains to do the course. I said YES of course, because I had seen him train other people in the gym. He started the course and found he loved teaching, and his research and computer skills improved out of sight. He contacted me two years later and he was a mine site supervisor at the uranium mine in Jabiru – and said that it was the qualification that him the job.
And then there is Emily ( I have changed her name). Unemployed mother of three, divorced, been to prison for drug offences. We met at a coven meeting but I won’t go there. She also did the course with me and within 6 months of finishing was working as an LLN teacher here in Katherine at the university. A year later she was in Melbourne running a Community Education Centre. Now she has her own business and travels the country motivating people to buy her products that enable the recycling of plastic waste.
So yes – it changes lives