Welcome to Service Skills

Service Skills Australia is a not-for-profit, independent organisation. We are one of 11 industry skills councils funded by the Australian Government to support skills development. We represent a range of industry sectors, including retail and wholesale, sport, fitness, community recreation, outdoor recreation, travel, tours, meetings and events, accommodation, restaurants and catering, caravans, hairdressing, beauty, floristry, community pharmacy and funeral services.

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Highlights

  • Service Skills Productivity Places Program Tasmanian Workshop a success

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  • Service Skills Australia welcomes new government-industry training partnerships in retail

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  • Service Skills e-news November 2008 now available

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  • Queensland and Northern Territory join Productivity Places Program

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Featured Projects

beauty120Service Skills Australia is currently conducting a project for the continuous improvement of the WRB04 Beauty Training Package.

We have just developed and released a discussion paper which provides specific proposals to improve the training package, to ensure its currency.

The beauty discussion paper is available for comment until Friday 19 December.

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productivity_placesThrough the Skilling Australia for the future initiative, the government has allocated 630,000 training places over five years to ensure that Australians develop the skills that industry needs.

Service Skills Australia has an active role with the Existing Worker Productivity Places Program.

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Sport and Recreation  We are conducting the review of the Sport, Outdoor Recreation, Community Recreation and Fitness Training Packages.  The review provides the for anyone with an interest in the packages to be involved and provide input into the future skill and knowledge requirements of the sport, fitness and recreation sectors.  

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The Service Industries Environmental Scan 2009 will draw together intelligence and research about existing and emerging trends and tendencies in the service industry sectors and how these impact on skills and labour needs.

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Road Map to Country is a pilot project to develop a training programme to support small business development in the Indigenous communities of Doomadgee and Kubin, on the island of Moa. The project focuses on building capacity in the communities' tourism and outdoor recreation industries.

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