• Apply critical thinking skills in a team enviornment

• Support personal wellbeing in the workplace

• Participate in sustainable work practices

• Design and produce business documents 

• Design and produce spreadsheets 

• Create electronic presentations

• Use inclusive work practices

• Assist with maintaining workplace safety

• Work in a team

• Write simple documents

• Engage in workplace communication

• Securely manage personally identifiable 

information and workplace information

• Organise personal work priorities

Through a mixture of theory and practical course work, learn to:

• Use popular business software including Microsoft Office suite and Microsoft Team

• Respond to work health and safety issues

• Organise your time and work priorities

• Make suggestions regarding sustainable work practice

• Think critically, problem solve and communicate in the workplace

• A nationally accredited qualification at Certificate III level

• Exposure to realistic workplace documents, policies and procedures

• Confidence using commonplace workplace software and technology like Microsoft Teams and Microsoft Office suite

• Workplace communication techniques like active listening and questioning

• Strong pathways to continue your studies and enhance your career opportunities

To want to do this course you should have:

• Language, Literacy and Numeracy (LLN) at a Year 10 high school level

• A computer with internet access

• Pre-existing technology skills to access and navigate the internet and be able to create, open and save electronic file

• Confidence to work independently

Participants usually continue from this course to study the Certificate IV in Business. You are able to enroll into Certificate III in Business and Certificate IV in Business simultaneously.

NSW Smart and Skilled provides eligible NSW students with subsidised training up to and including Certificate III, as well as government funding for higher-level courses (Certificate IV and above) in targeted priority areas.

The focus of NSW Smart and Skilled is getting people into the workforce by helping them improve language, literacy and numeracy as well as gain specific job skills. Certificates I, II and III are considered the minimum requirements for getting a job.

People who meet the NSW Smart and Skilled eligibility conditions are entitled to enrol in a subsidised course up to Certificate III regardless of the level of any previous qualifications held. 

While NSW Smart and Skilled focuses on entry-level qualifications, subsidised training is also available for some Certificate IV, Diploma or Advanced Diploma level in targeted areas.

To be eligible for NSW Smart and Skilled funding you must be an Australian citizen, Australian permanent resident, Australian humanitarian visa holder or New Zealand citizen; 15 years old or over; no longer at school and living or working in NSW.

• Apply critical thinking to work practices

• Articulate, present, and debate ideas

• Coordinate business resources

• Organise business meetings

• Manage personal health and wellbeing

• Develop personal work priorities

• Use digital technologies to collaborate in a work environment

• Build and maintain business relationships

• Implement and monitor WHS policies, procedures, and programs

• Write complex documents

• Apply communication strategies in the workplace

• Lead and facilitate a team

• Use digital technologies to communicate in the workplace and complete business tasks

• Establish business relationships

• Draft complex documents and create presentations

• Communicate with colleagues and seniors

• Think critically and make decisions in the workplace

• Exposure to realistic business environments

• Confidence handling and producing real-life business documents

• Experience using business technology like Microsoft Teams and Microsoft Office suite

• Completed your Higher School

• Certificate or equivalent level of study or

• Completed a Certificate III in Business or

•  Approximately 2 years' relevant work experience in industry

• Confidence in creating and managing 

multiple files across the Microsoft Office 

suite, such as compiling information using 

• Excel spreadsheets and Word documents

• Keyboard skills

• Time management and organisational skills

Participants usually continue from this course to study the Diploma in Business. You are able to enroll into Certificate IV in Business and complete the work simultaneously.

NSW Smart and Skilled provides eligible NSW students with subsidised training up to and including Certificate III, as well as government funding for higher-level courses (Certificate IV and above) in targeted priority areas.

The focus of NSW Smart and Skilled is getting people into the workforce by helping them improve language, literacy and numeracy as well as gain specific job skills. Certificates I, II and III are considered the minimum requirements for getting a job.

People who meet the NSW Smart and Skilled eligibility conditions are entitled to enrol in a subsidised course up to Certificate III regardless of the level of any previous qualifications held. 

While NSW Smart and Skilled focuses on entry-level qualifications, subsidised training is also available for some Certificate IV, Diploma or Advanced Diploma level in targeted areas.

To be eligible for NSW Smart and Skilled funding you must be an Australian citizen, Australian permanent resident, Australian humanitarian visa holder or New Zealand citizen; 15 years old or over; no longer at school and living or working in NSW.

• Apply critical thinking skills in a team enviornment

• Support personal wellbeing in the workplace

• Participate in sustainable work practice

• Design and produce business documents 

• Design and produce spreadsheets 

• Create electronic presentations

• Use inclusive work practices

• Assist with maintaining workplace safety

• Work in a team

• Write simple documents

• Engage in workplace communication

• Securely manage personally identifiable information and workplace information

• Organise personal work priorities

Through a mixture of theory and practical course work, learn to:

• Use popular business software including Microsoft Office suite and Microsoft Team

• Respond to work health and safety issues

• Organise your time and work priorities

• Make suggestions regarding sustainable work practice

• Think critically, problem solve and communicate in the workplace

• A nationally accredited qualification at Certificate III level

• Exposure to realistic workplace documents, policies and procedures

• Confidence using commonplace workplace software and technology like Microsoft Teams and Microsoft Office suite

• Workplace communication techniques like active listening and questioning

• Strong pathways to continue your studies and enhance your career opportunities

To want to do this course you should have:

• Language, Literacy and Numeracy (LLN) at a Year 10 high school level

• A computer with internet access

• Pre-existing technology skills to access and navigate the internet and be able to create, open and save electronic file

• Confidence to work independently

Participants usually continue from this course to study the Certificate IV in Business. You are able to enroll into Certificate III in Business and Certificate IV in Business simultaneously.

NSW Smart and Skilled provides eligible NSW students with subsidised training up to and including Certificate III, as well as government funding for higher-level courses (Certificate IV and above) in targeted priority areas.

The focus of NSW Smart and Skilled is getting people into the workforce by helping them improve language, literacy and numeracy as well as gain specific job skills. Certificates I, II and III are considered the minimum requirements for getting a job.

People who meet the NSW Smart and Skilled eligibility conditions are entitled to enrol in a subsidised course up to Certificate III regardless of the level of any previous qualifications held. 

While NSW Smart and Skilled focuses on entry-level qualifications, subsidised training is also available for some Certificate IV, Diploma or Advanced Diploma level in targeted areas.

To be eligible for NSW Smart and Skilled funding you must be an Australian citizen, Australian permanent resident, Australian humanitarian visa holder or New Zealand citizen; 15 years old or over; no longer at school and living or working in NSW.

• Apply critical thinking skills in a team enviornment

• Support personal wellbeing in the workplace

• Participate in sustainable work practice

• Design and produce business documents 

• Design and produce spreadsheets 

• Create electronic presentations

• Use inclusive work practices

• Assist with maintaining workplace safety

• Work in a team

• Write simple documents

• Engage in workplace communication

• Securely manage personally identifiable information and workplace information

• Organise personal work priorities

Through a mixture of theory and practical course work, learn to:

• Use popular business software including Microsoft Office suite and Microsoft Team

• Respond to work health and safety issues

• Organise your time and work priorities

• Make suggestions regarding sustainable work practice

• Think critically, problem solve and communicate in the workplace

• A nationally accredited qualification at Certificate III level

• Exposure to realistic workplace documents, policies and procedures

• Confidence using commonplace workplace software and technology like Microsoft Teams and Microsoft Office suite

• Workplace communication techniques like active listening and questioning

• Strong pathways to continue your studies and enhance your career opportunities

To want to do this course you should have:

• Language, Literacy and Numeracy (LLN) at a Year 10 high school level

• A computer with internet access

• Pre-existing technology skills to access and navigate the internet and be able to create, open and save electronic file

• Confidence to work independently

Participants usually continue from this course to study the Certificate IV in Business. You are able to enroll into Certificate III in Business and Certificate IV in Business simultaneously.

NSW Smart and Skilled provides eligible NSW students with subsidised training up to and including Certificate III, as well as government funding for higher-level courses (Certificate IV and above) in targeted priority areas.

The focus of NSW Smart and Skilled is getting people into the workforce by helping them improve language, literacy and numeracy as well as gain specific job skills. Certificates I, II and III are considered the minimum requirements for getting a job.

People who meet the NSW Smart and Skilled eligibility conditions are entitled to enrol in a subsidised course up to Certificate III regardless of the level of any previous qualifications held. 

While NSW Smart and Skilled focuses on entry-level qualifications, subsidised training is also available for some Certificate IV, Diploma or Advanced Diploma level in targeted areas.

To be eligible for NSW Smart and Skilled funding you must be an Australian citizen, Australian permanent resident, Australian humanitarian visa holder or New Zealand citizen; 15 years old or over; no longer at school and living or working in NSW.

• Deliver a service to customers

• Plan and prepare for work readiness

• Use digital technology for routine and simple workplace tasks

• Use digital technology for non-routine workplace tasks

• Use simple strategies for work-related learning

• Use strategies to respond to routine workplace problems

• Use routine strategies for career planning

• Use routine strategies for work-related learning

• Use familiar and simple metric measurements for work

• Calculate with whole numbers and familiar fractions, decimals and percentages for work

• Estimate, measure and calculate with routine metric measurements for work

• Confidently use technology to complete work tasks

• Ability to read and interpret workplace documents

• Skills to communicate effectively within the workplace

• Enhanced reading, writing, maths and computer skills

• Pathway into further study or a job

Have renewed confidence to reach your goals

To want to do this course you should have:

• A goal to improve your reading, writing and maths skills

• A desire to learn how to use a computer

• A need to improve your study skills

Participants usually continue from this course to study the Certificate II in skills for work and vocational pathways. Usually these courses are delivered together as a package. 

NSW Smart and Skilled provides eligible NSW students with subsidised training up to and including Certificate III, as well as government funding for higher-level courses (Certificate IV and above) in targeted priority areas.

The focus of NSW Smart and Skilled is getting people into the workforce by helping them improve language, literacy and numeracy as well as gain specific job skills. Certificates I, II and III are considered the minimum requirements for getting a job.

People who meet the NSW Smart and Skilled eligibility conditions are entitled to enrol in a subsidised course up to Certificate III regardless of the level of any previous qualifications held. 

While NSW Smart and Skilled focuses on entry-level qualifications, subsidised training is also available for some Certificate IV, Diploma or Advanced Diploma level in targeted areas.

To be eligible for NSW Smart and Skilled funding you must be an Australian citizen, Australian permanent resident, Australian humanitarian visa holder or New Zealand citizen; 15 years old or over; no longer at school and living or working in NSW.