Getting involved
Investing in your relationship with a training provider will give you opportunities to influence the training your current or future employees receive.
The more you engage, the more influence you can have over training outcomes.
As the employer, you have the opportunity to work with the RTO to make sure the learning is best for your workplace. You have to care about the delivery of training and what it looks like. You have to get involved.
(Disability service provider)
Good training providers will be keen to hear your feedback on the training and assessment they provide. Your views on the coverage, effectiveness and relevance of training will help them to continually improve the quality of their training and assessment. They can then pass that feedback on to the bodies responsible for developing accredited training products and ensure that they are meeting the needs of industry.
You can also help to raise the profile of your industry sector and your organisation by taking up opportunities to speak to groups of students. Some employers have found this a useful way to attract new staff.
We’re in the process of trying to establish partnerships with some really reputable VET providers, so we can work on achieving those job ready employees, but also so that we can understand and have some input on that industry collaboration.
So for us, it’s developing trust that the students get what our industry needs, and what our sector and essentially our clients are wanting, and helping to steer the sector a little bit.
(Disability service provider)