As an employer it's important to identify and acknowledge the skills and knowledge that your employees have. This enables you to maximise their strengths and get the most from your production team. Many employees acquire their skills in the workplace, or even outside work, without undergoing formal training. In these cases they may be eligible to apply for RPL.
RPL is the acknowledgement by a Registered Training Organisation
(RTO)
that an employee has gained an appropriate level of skills and knowledge that would otherwise have been developed by undertaking a training program.
There are various benefits for employers in assisting employees to seek recognition of their skills through RPL. These include:
- fast tracking workers through the skills recognition process
- reduction in costs of training
- reduction in down-time while workers are in training
- efficient identification of 'skills gaps' allowing for more focussed training
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