Keep your Industry Currency Up-to-date With the Support of RTOs and Industry Employers
Last updated 27/10/26
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The prepare tools and the checklist of recommended tasks help RTOs build strong partnerships with industry employers. These partnerships enable TTAs to update their industry skills and knowledge.
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Tool: Identify Industry Currency Requirements
Identify and prioritise industry skills and knowledge you want to focus on over the next 12 months including your preferred currency opportunities
After your RTOs partnership planning meeting with employers
Moderate
Less than 60 minutes, some preparation required
- Download and save the tool
- Review the recent industry change information and proposed industry currency opportunities provided by employers, as well as any relevant skills matrices you have previously completed
- Add in training packages and units of competency you teach and the industry skills and knowledge you need for each unit of competency
- Indicate when each skill and knowledge item was last updated - within the last 12 months or more than 12 months ago
- Indicate which skill or knowledge items have been impacted by industry change since you last updated the skill or knowledge item
- Identify which industry skills and knowledge you need to update, based on the information you provided in the previous two steps
- Capture your preferred industry currency opportunities
- Edit the tool to remove or add space as you need
Use the Prepare Checklist to Independently Track Recommended Tasks
The recommended tasks will help TTAs:
- Understand the industry skills, knowledge and preferred opportunities you want to access over the next 12 months
1. Identify industry currency requirements
- Receive a link to the TTA toolkit
- Accept invitation to ongoing check in meetings from your RTO
- Confirm with your RTO:
- when the partnership planning meeting is scheduled for
- when you need to provide your RTO a summary of the skills, knowledge and preferred opportunities you would like to access
- Receive the summary of recent industry changes and proposed industry currency opportunities from your RTO (provided by employers)
- Complete the identify industry currency requirements tool with guidance from your RTO as needed
- Discuss your industry currency opportunity selections with your RTO and update as needed
- Share an individual summary of industry currency requirements with your RTO
Priya meets with Matt to discuss the industry skills, knowledge and currency opportunities she’d like to access. Priya has selected a mix of currency opportunities that she can manage alongside her workload and personal commitments.
As Priya and Matt discuss the opportunities Priya has nominated the work out that different industry skills and knowledge require different levels of effort to bring them up-to-date. They decide to change a few of the nominated opportunities to more closely reflect the effort required to bring the industry skill or knowledge up-to-date.
Here Are a Few Real-life Examples of How You Might Use the Prepare Tools
These examples are not exhaustive and may look different in practice, based on your organisation’s work environment.
Industry Currency Empowers Students
TTAs with industry currency deliver engaging training that prepares students for their vocation.
Industry currency helps students think critically, use sound judgement and apply skills in practice.
Tell me more →There are many effective ways to extend industry skills and knowledge
This includes opportunities such as volunteering, temporary or supervised shifts and scheduled community engagements with clients.
This includes active participation in industry advisory groups, scheduled discussions with leaders or subject matter experts and collaborating with employers on a relevant project.
This includes completing an training course hosted by employers or attending professional development courses or conferences.
This includes actively participating in new or existing industry or sector communities of practice and planned discussions with internal colleagues.
Industry Currency Empowers Students
TTAs need support from RTOs and employers to update their industry skills and knowledge and set VET students up for success.
In the prepare stage, RTOs and employers have access to related tools and checklists. The checklists include recommended tasks to support collaboration between RTOs, employers and TTAs.
Note: Priya, Matt and Mei-Lin's fictional roles, responsibilities and included examples are not exhaustive. Roles, responsibilities and actual tasks may look different in practice.
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- Identify individual currency requirements
- Determine industry currency and partnership goals
- Define value proposition for employers
- Define partnership and logistics approach
- Prepare a project charter
- Identify industry currency requirements
Determine industry currency and partnership goals
- Plan for potential risks
- Define value proposition for RTOs
- Prepare a project charter
- Summarise recent industry changes
Frequently Asked Questions
I currently have a full-time teaching load, how will the toolkit help me maintain industry currency?
Without the support of your RTO and industry employers, it can be difficult to access opportunities to maintain industry currency. The RTO and employer toolkits support RTOs and employers to partner together to help you and other TTAs to stay up-to-date with industry skills and knowledge.
I currently hold part-time roles in industry and an RTO, how will the toolkit help me?
Do I need to teach a particular training course to benefit from the toolkit?
The tools include examples across different sectors. These examples help TTAs make the most of the tools, regardless of the courses they teach.
I want to feel confident I’ve met compliance requirements, can the toolkit help?
- Strong partnerships between your RTO and industry employers make it easier to access industry currency opportunities and gain insight into recent industry changes from an employer perspective.
- The tools for TTAs, RTOs and employers enable a collaborative approach to planning industry currency opportunities over a 12-month period.
- The RTO toolkit supports your RTO to provide you and your colleagues with consistent guidance on reflection, application and evidence expectations.
- The TTA and RTO toolkits include recommended industry currency opportunities, including when they are most effective, to help you choose opportunities that align with the industry skills and knowledge you want to update.
How often should I use the tools and checklists? Do I need to use all of them?
The toolkit is not a process you must follow from start to finish. It’s designed to enhance and build on existing processes. You can choose which tools you will use and tailor these to best meet your needs.
How will the toolkit help my RTO work with employers to minimise health and safety risks?
Why does the toolkit suggest I should have reflective conversations with employers?
My RTO doesn't know about this toolkit, how do I get them on board?
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Share your experience of using the industry currency toolkits.
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