Your APS Career
Take charge of your career by exploring learning and development opportunities available to you.
A high-performing and future-ready APS workforce is vital to deliver the best outcomes for the Australian government and our community.
Take charge of your career by exploring learning and development opportunities available to you. Drive your success by developing your skills and growing a continuous learning mindset.
APS Career Pathfinder helps you to discover and plan your career options in government. Use our clever tool to explore potential roles in the Australian Public Service (APS) based on your skills.
Career Pathways delivers supported pathways for Australian Citizens into the Australian Government. You will find programs here that offer structured employment to begin your career in the public service.
The APS Jobs website serves as a central platform for exploring careers within the Australian Public Service (APS). It provides job search tools, highlights career pathways, and shares general information about working for the APS.
The APS Professions are workforce development initiatives aimed at increasing capability in critical disciplines where there is a shortage of specialists. The streams are for data, digital and human resource professionals.
The ILS provides capability development guidance for individuals and agencies in the form of descriptions and behaviours for all levels in the Australian Public Service.
Resources
Frameworks and Standards
The Government’s APS Reform Agenda and Delivering for Australians highlighted the need to build an integrated strategic approach to workforce management. The need to strengthen workforce planning capability to plan and develop the capabilities the APS needs for the future is becoming increasingly more critical.
The strategy establishes the first whole-of-enterprise approach to strategic workforce management, enabling effective delivery for the government and Australian communities.
The Australian Government commissioned Jobs and Skills Australia (JSA) to undertake a capacity study on the workforce needs for Australia’s transition to a clean energy economy. Learn more about how partnering with stakeholders and specialists has assisted them and what it could mean for your similar endeavours.
The ILS provides capability development guidance for individuals and agencies in the form of descriptions and behaviours for all levels in the Australian Public Service.
The APS HR Workforce Strategy and Pathways to Professionalisation Framework help APS HR staff build skills, improve services, and access clear development pathways, supporting a capable, agile workforce.
Tools and templates
APS Career Pathfinder helps you to discover and plan your career options in government. Use our clever tool to explore potential roles in the Australian Public Service (APS) based on your skills.
Career Pathways delivers supported pathways for Australian Citizens into the Australian Government. You will find programs here that offer structured employment to begin your career in the public service.
The APS Jobs website serves as a central platform for exploring careers within the Australian Public Service (APS). It provides job search tools, highlights career pathways, and shares general information about working for the APS.
These 'bite sized brain hacks' offer coaching in improving how you learn. This episode includes 3 strategies you can apply to fall in love with learning and build your curiosity.
Inspire and support a continuous learning culture with these Continuous Learning conversation prompts.
It’s important to not only decide what skills and knowledge you want to develop, but also how you’re going to learn them. Use this downloadable development planning template to identify the learning experiences you’ll use to develop your skills and knowledge.
This chart highlights continuous learning experiences that are the most available to APS people. It plots the frequency and distance from work for each experience.
Reflection is an important source of self-development and improvement and enhances your continuous learning experiences. It makes the learning that happens at work more productive because you are actively recalling and recognising what you learned.
This series covers tools to respond to challenges, stresses, conflict and more at work. This episode explores the basics of Action Learning for digital courses and coaching.
This resource features 6 practical strategies to make your learning have a lasting impact on your performance.
These principles will develop a continuous learning culture to support APS people, managers and leaders to take up their responsibility for learning.
Any APS or Parliamentary Service employee (ongoing, non-ongoing or casual) may apply for an independent review of an action or decision that affects their employment. (subject to certain exceptions).
The APS Continuous Learning Model promotes learning through work, people, courses and resources, helping employees build capability, improve performance and adapt to changing roles and priorities.
This podcast episode highlights changes, developments and insights across the Learning and Development profession. Although aimed at L&D practitioners, it also offers insights and ideas for individual learning.
Networks and Communities
The HR Professional Network recognises and leverages best practice across the Australian Public Service (APS). The Network's online community is open to anyone with a GovTEAMS account.
Courses
APSLearn
APS Unlocked brings together new and returning members of the APS to engage with experienced APS leaders and practitioners, who will share essential information and tips for a successful and productive career in the APS.
The Coaching for Women in Data and Digital (C4WID) Program focuses on group coaching to help you develop leadership skills in data and digital related roles within the public sector. The program will help you reflect on your strengths, values and career goals, and dedicate time to professional growth in a supportive context.
Interactive course on editing and proofing written text. It includes writing skills, editing and proofing methods. You will be able to enhance documents for correctness and clarity.
All workplaces use communication and our overall job effectiveness is strongly influenced by how well we communicate. Learn how to present information clearly, concisely and in a compelling manner.
APS employees who produce routine correspondence, such as emails and letters. Suitable for improving ability to logically sequence information, use appropriate styles and readability.
This course is designed for those who produce documents involving analysis or evidence-based argument. It is suitable for all APS and executive levels who need to improve their analytical writing.
Participants learn how to produce documents which are accurate, clear and consistent with Government style requirements.
Footprints is a framework that supports APS employees to continually increase and enhance their cross-cultural knowledge and understanding.
This course assists those on selection committees to conduct effective selection processes. Examine relevant legislation and principles guiding staff selection and retention to get the best candidate.
The APS job application process. Practical exercises help participants write applications and perform well in selection activities and interviews.
This is a practical and participative course to build confidence in giving presentations. Examine the learning techniques, structures and elements that create and deliver good presentations.
This course covers the processes for writing reports that adhere to the Commonwealth writing style. Learn to produce documents that have clear scope, are organised and interpret information well.
Understand the work level standards, capability requirements and behavioural expectations at the APS 5 level detailed in the APS Work Level Standards and the APS Integrated Leadership System.
Understand the capability requirements and behavioural expectations at of APS 6 level. Gain clarity of the APS Work Level Standards and the APS Integrated Leadership System.
Understand the critical role requirements of EL 1's through the APS Work Level Standards and capabilities and behaviours identified in the APS Integrated Leadership System.
Understand the broad role requirements of EL 2s through the APS Work Level Standards and deepen your understanding of the capabilities and behaviours required.
Programs
ACCELERATE is a development program for training, presentation and facilitation skills.
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