• 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.