Are you looking for work, but need some skills and experience? How would you like to get on a pathway to employment, through a program that combines training and on the job industry experience that provides opportunities to connect with an apprenticeship, traineeship, or further training and employment? Great — you've come to the right place! |
All Job Ready Pathways programs are 100% fee-free*! That's right — You will pay no fees to get on to a pathway to employment! |
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Job Ready Programs deliver short, sharp training to assist people into entry-level job opportunities, which combine training with an industry work placement to help you into employment, an apprenticeship or traineeship, or further studies.
From 1 January 2026, management and delivery of Job Ready Programs will be undertaken by the WA TAFE colleges and private training providers.
Our Job Ready pathways to employment programs are free* and include not only training but also an industry work placement.
Do you have experience in the construction industry but no trades qualification, and would like the opportunity to have your skills recognised to get into an apprenticeship? Skills Recognition Apprenticeship Program provides a free skills assessment for existing workers, to get you into an apprenticeship for the construction industry.
Job Ready Programs have been developed in the following industries:
Digital Workplace Job Ready
Build your digital skills and explore career pathways in administration and customer service in sought after roles like receptionists, data entry officers and call centre operators. Through the program, you can learn how to organise data and records, produce documents and use different software applications.
Contact your nearest training provider to sign up for upcoming courses:
Vocational Training Services
Phone: 08 6216 0165
North Metropolitan TAFE
Phone: 1300 300 822
South Metropolitan TAFE
Phone: 1800 001 001
North Regional TAFE
Phone: 1300 996 573
South Regional TAFE
Phone: 1800 621 445
Central Regional TAFE
Phone: 1800 672 700
Early Childhood Education and Care
Get job ready for a fun and rewarding career in child care, with the opportunity to become industry qualified! You will build knowledge of education and care programs for children and gain valuable hands-on experience working with children in an early learning centre.
Contact your nearest training provider to sign up for upcoming courses:
North Metropolitan TAFE
Phone: 1300 300 822
South Metropolitan TAFE
Phone: 1800 001 001
North Regional TAFE
Phone: 1300 996 573
South Regional TAFE
Phone: 1800 621 445
Central Regional TAFE
Phone: 1800 672 700
Meerilinga Training College
Locations: Ballajura, Beechboro, Bentley, Cockburn and West Perth
Phone: 08 9489 4022
Fremantle Education Centre
Locations: Fremantle, Joondalup, Mandurah and Bunbury
Phone: 08 9335 5444
JSW Training and Community Services
Locations: Bunbury, Busselton, Manjimup and Mandurah
Phone: 08 9721 5033
Special requirements
In accordance with industry regulations, you must be able to obtain a Working with Children Check to undertake to work in the early childhood education and care sector.
Future Chef
Get job ready to turn your passion for food into an exciting career as a chef that could take you to restaurants, hotels and resorts anywhere in the world, gain job ready skills and knowledge including food safety, preparing and presenting simple dishes, and how to use a range of kitchen equipment.
Contact your nearest training provider to sign up for upcoming courses:
Vocational Training Services
Locations: Cannington
Phone: 08 6216 0165
North Metropolitan TAFE
Phone: 1300 300 822
South Metropolitan TAFE
Phone: 1800 001 001
North Regional TAFE
Phone: 1300 996 573
South Regional TAFE
Phone: 1800 621 445
Central Regional TAFE
Phone: 1800 672 700
Heavy Vehicle Driving Operations
Get your career started as a heavy vehicle driver in the road transport industry, with practical driving instruction for the operation of a heavy rigid (HR), heavy combination (HC) or multi-combination (MC) vehicle. This six-week program combines theoretical skills and knowledge with practical driving instruction from qualified and experienced drivers.
To find out more about this program, please visit the course page:
Please note that due to WorkSafe’s forklift licensing requirements you must be 18 years or older to enrol in this program.
Ageing and Disability Job Ready
Get job ready to start your rewarding career in two of WA’s fastest growing sectors, aged care and disability support, where you can make a positive difference in the lives of others. Through the program, you will gain key skills and knowledge, including how to meet personal support needs and industry experience an aged care or disability support employer.
Contact your nearest training provider to sign up for upcoming courses:
North Metropolitan TAFE
Phone: 1300 300 822
South Metropolitan TAFE
Phone: 1800 001 001
North Regional TAFE
Phone: 1300 996 573
South Regional TAFE
Phone: 1800 621 445
Central Regional TAFE
Phone: 1800 672 700
Activ Pathways
Location: Bentley
Phone: 1300 514 582
AMA Training
Location: Nedlands
Phone: 1800 248 292
Open Colleges School of Health
Location: Perth
Phone: 1300 886 204
Bricklaying Job Ready
Get a range of job ready skills including work safety practices, how to use a range of construction equipment and tools, and skills to work in a construction team, to get you ready for an apprenticeship in building and construction. You’ll learn about basic bricklaying for new and existing structures including residential homes, units and apartments.
The program is run over four weeks and combines training with four days of work placement on a building and construction worksite. When you successfully complete the program, you may be offered a bricklaying apprenticeship.
Enquire with the Housing Industry Association to sign up for upcoming courses: Phone: 08 9492 9200 or 1300 650 620 |
Infrastructure Ready
This pathway focuses on skills and knowledge to set you up to work on civil construction projects such as new roads, public buildings and facilities. Through the program, you’ll learn about working safely on construction sites, carrying out measurements and calculations, preparing and organising construction work, and operating small plant and equipment.
Contact your nearest training provider to sign up for upcoming courses:
Skill Hire
Location: Forrestfield
Phone: 08 9376 2800
North Metropolitan TAFE
Phone: 1300 300 822
South Metropolitan TAFE
Phone: 1800 001 001
North Regional TAFE
Phone: 1300 996 573
South Regional TAFE
Phone: 1800 621 445
Central Regional TAFE
Phone: 1800 672 700
Skills Recognition Apprenticeship Program
Do you have skills, experience and knowledge from working in the construction industry, but no formal qualification? How would you like to get a nationally recognised trades qualification, through an apprenticeship?
The Skills Recognition Apprenticeship Program (SRAP) offers you the opportunity to have your construction industry skills, knowledge and experience assessed and counted towards a trades qualification, to boost your job and career prospects.
Best of all, the SRAP assessment is 100% free for eligible applicants — that's right, no cost to you! The program aims to help you boost your employability through the attainment of a trades qualification, and to support employers across Western Australia's construction industry who need skilled workers.
Who is eligible for SRAP?
SRAP is open to anyone currently working in the construction industry who has construction industry skills, knowledge and experience — there are no age limits, but you must be a permanent resident of WA. It is available through TAFE colleges in both metropolitan and regional WA for non-licensed construction trades including carpentry and joinery, painting and decorating, bricklaying, tile laying, plastering, concreting, ceiling and wall fixing, stonemasonry, sprinkler fitting and signwriting.
How does SRAP work?
The first step is to apply through our online expression of interest form, so that you can tell us about yourself and your experience. If your application is successful we will contact you to discuss next steps.
If you are already employed in the construction industry, the first stage of SRAP is the assessment. This is conducted in accordance with national industry standards, and looks at your skills and experience to see where you already demonstrate competency to the standard required by the trades qualification.
Will SRAP help me find a job or boost my career prospects?
Yes! Having a nationally recognised trades qualification greatly improves your employability and opens up new opportunities for you across the construction industry. Employers who take you on as an apprentice through SRAP not only get a trades qualified worker in less time, but will also be eligible for a range of financial incentives which makes you an attractive employment prospect!
If this sounds like the opportunity you've been waiting for, please complete the expression of interest online form via the link below. You can also download our information flyer, for details about the program.
Need more information?
If you have questions about SRAP, or would like further information, please call us on 08 6551 5049 or email SRAP@dtwd.wa.gov.au.
SRAP: Skill up, get qualified!
Karen Ho, Director General of the WA Department of Training and Workforce Development, recently visited the Perth CBD looking at some of the major construction projects that are currently happening, and talking to some of WA's construction industry leaders about all of the opportunities these present for skilled workers.
In this short video, Karen talks about SRAP and the advantages that completing an apprenticeship can offer you.
Remember, the skills assessment is FREE — you could be on your way to being a qualified tradesperson, through the skills and knowledge you already have!
Fee free and low fee courses
There's never been a better time to get into training.
Fee free training – no course fees
All Job Ready short course skill sets will continue to be fully fee free, and selected full qualifications will remain 100% course fee free through 2025. That's over 130 free training courses.
Lower fees, local skills — Low fee courses
We have reduced the course fees on selected qualifications by half — some by as much as 72 per cent — through the Lower fees, local skills program. From entry level pre-apprenticeships and pre-traineeships, through to Certificates II, III, IV and even Diploma level qualifications — including apprenticeships and traineeships — there's sure to be something that matches your career goals.
Eligibility for free training
Please read the following information regarding eligibility for free training in the Job Ready Pathways programs.
The WA State Government, through Jobs and Skills WA, subsidises vocational education and training (VET) courses in priority areas, to reduce or remove the fees and make training more accessible to all Western Australians.
From 1 January 2023, the following eligibility criteria apply for free training
To be eligible for free training, you must have left school*, have your primary place of residence in Western Australia, and are either:
- an Australian citizen; or
- a permanent visa holder or holder of visa subclass 309, 444, 449, 785, 786, 790, or 820; or
- a dependent or spouse of the primary holder of a visa subclass 457 or 482**; or
- a bridging visa holder who has made a valid application for a visa subclass 866; or
- a bridging visa E holder (subclasses 050 and 051) who has made a valid application for a visa subclass 785 or 790.
*In 2023, Year 12 school students who are leaving school can access a subsidised training place from 23 October 2023.
**From 1 January 2023, the spouses and dependants of primary 457 or 482 visa holders will be also able to access free training in WA. These skilled migrant families will be further supported by waiving public school fees for their children during 2023.
The following eligibility criteria are in place up to 31 December 2022 for free training
Through to 31 December 2022, the Job Ready Pathway Programs are fee-free to the following concession-eligible residents of Western Australia.
- Persons aged 15—24 years at the time of enrolment (excluding students enrolled at school*)
- Persons and dependents of persons in receipt of services from Commonwealth support or employment services programs Workforce Australia, or ParentsNext
- Persons and dependents of persons receiving the Youth Allowance, AUSTUDY or ABSTUDY
- Persons and dependents of persons holding a pensioner concession card or Health Care Card; or a Repatriation Health Benefits Card issued by the Department of Veterans' Affairs
- Dependents of persons who are inmates of a custodial institution
*In 2022, Year 12 school students who are leaving school can access a subsidised training place from 24 October 2022.
If you are not eligible for free training, standard fees apply.
The Department of Training and Workforce Development’s VET Fees and charges policy outlines eligibility for subsidised training in WA.
All enquiries regarding eligibility and/or course fees should be made to the TAFE college or private training provider.
Jobs and Skills Centres
Jobs and Skills Centre, located across Perth and regional Western Australia, provide free information and support about training and career choices. They can help you decide which pathway to take, and they also work closely with local employers so they know where the jobs are. All services are free! Contact your local Jobs and Skill Centre to find out how they can help you.