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Career Start

Whether you wish to gain the skills needed for employment or to further your career by updating current skills, Career Start is designed to give eligible Queenslanders the skills, knowledge, and support needed to achieve positive outcomes.

Career Start will provide eligible Queenslanders with:

  • access to low-cost certificate III qualifications in priority and emerging industries
  • access to free and low-fee apprenticeship and traineeship training in priority and emerging industries
  • expanded access to foundation skills such as language, literacy, numeracy and employability skills
  • increased access to training in regional and remote areas.

Are you eligible?

To access Career Start funding, participants must meet the following criteria:

  • be a Queensland resident
  • be aged 15 years or over, and no longer at school
  • be an Australian or New Zealand citizen or Australian permanent resident (including humanitarian entrants), or a temporary resident with the necessary visa and work permits on the pathway to permanent residency.
  • not hold a certificate Ill level or higher qualification completed within the last 10 years (qualifications completed as a school student and foundation skills qualifications do not count)
  • Not be enrolled in another qualification

fees and charges

Participants are required to contribute to the cost of their training, this is called a co-contribution fee. This includes concessional and non-concessional participants enrolling into vocational qualifications up to a level III or an accredited skill set.

The only exceptions to the fee condition are:

  • ​SQW participants — this training is provided fee-free to participants
Concession Non-Concession
BSB30120 Certificate III in Business $50 $150

skilling queenslanders for work (SQW)

Skilling Queenslanders for Work helps eligible Queenslanders develop skills, gain qualifications and provide direct assistance to enter and stay in the workforce.

The initiative offers 8 programs that deliver training to improve skills and employment opportunities. The programs focus on supporting:

  • young people, including those in and transitioned from out-of-home care
  • Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples
  • people with disability
  • mature-age job seekers
  • women re-entering the workforce
  • veterans and ex-service personnel
  • people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds
  • recently released prisoners.

The programs are delivered across the state by community-based organisations, local councils, Parents and Citizens’ and Parents and Friends associations.

Work skills traineeships

Funded under the Skilling Queenslanders for Work program

Work Skills Traineeships provide paid employment opportunities to disadvantaged Queenslanders while at the same time funding projects that leave a visible and long lasting impact on social infrastructure and services in a local community.

Participants will:

  • earn a certificate I level qualification in business, construction, or hospitality
  • gain practical experience in real work situations that align with their training
  • be supported to build confidence and general life skills
  • complete paid work that can be included in their resumes
  • receive a mix of career advice, job preparation skills and foundation skills.

Are you eligible?

  • be a Queensland resident
  • be aged 15 years or over, and no longer at school
  • be an Australian or New Zealand citizen or Australian permanent resident (including humanitarian entrants), or a temporary resident with the necessary visa and work permits on the pathway to permanent residency.
  • not be enrolled in another qualification
  • not have participated in a SQW program previously

*Participants are only eligible for one funded training placement under the Skilling Queenslanders for Work intiative.

qualifications available

For current vacencies and locations contact us at reception@skillcentred.com.au

  • BSB10120 Certificate I in Workplace Skills
  • CPC10120 Certificate I in Construction
  • SIT10222 Certificate I in Hospitality
  • SIT20322 Certificate II in Hospitality

fees and charges

This program is proudly funded by the Queensland Government’s Skilling Queenslanders for Work program. This means that there is no cost to eligible participants.

youth skills

Funded under the Skilling Queenslanders for Work program

Youth Skills offers customised training to support young people aged 15–24 years who are engaged with, or at risk of engaging with, Youth Justice Services or Queensland Corrective Services to gain nationally recognised skills and vocational qualifications up to and including a certificate III level.

The program encourages the use of adaptable and diverse approaches to effectively engage participants. Through a coordinated approach, learning barriers are identified and addressed, and participants are provided with coordinated and supported pathways into mainstream training, leading to further education and employment.

Are you eligible?

  • be engaged with Youth Justice, Queensland Corrective Services or the Queensland Police Service.
  • be a Queensland resident
  • be aged 15-24 years, and no longer at school
  • be an Australian or New Zealand citizen or Australian permanent resident (including humanitarian entrants), or a temporary resident with the necessary visa and work permits on the pathway to permanent residency.
  • not be enrolled in another qualification

qualifications available

For current vacencies and locations contact us at reception@skillcentred.com.au

    • BSB10120 Certificate I in Workplace Skills
    • CPC10120 Certificate I in Construction
    • SIT10222 Certificate I in Hospitality
    • SIT20322 Certificate II in Hospitality

fees and charges

This program is proudly funded by the Queensland Government’s Skilling Queenslanders for Work program. This means that there is no cost to eligible participants.