WORKFORCE PLANNING & DEVELOPMENT
ACS has undertaken skills assessments of over 150,000 ICT professionals making us Australia’s leading accredited Skills Framework for the Information Age (SFIA) training and consultancy partner.
ACS has undertaken skills assessments of over 150,000 ICT professionals making us Australia’s leading accredited Skills Framework for the Information Age (SFIA) training and consultancy partner.
When it comes to accurately identifying and developing the ICT skills within a workplace, it can be far from straightforward.
At ACS, we can help by offering strategic solutions to your workforce planning such as:
ACS’s national infrastructure and extensive network of Accredited SFIA Consultants makes us best placed to support your organisation’s ICT workers establish professional benchmarks.
Our unique mySFIA tool will help you achieve agility and optimal project management efficiency while our exclusive SFIA solutions provide a holistic approach to the development of your ICT professionals.
Our Workforce Development and Planning solutions include:
mySFIA also provides management reporting on ICT skill audits including skills by; job role, person, work team and workforce. This allows you to capture the proficiency of technical and professional skills and easily identify where skills gaps may exist.
For more details contact our Workforce Development Team at +61 (0)2 9299 3666 or [email protected].
Established in 2003, SFIA is updated regularly to maintain its relevance in a constantly evolving digital world.
SFIA is a framework model of skills and ‘levels of responsibility’ designed to address the needs of an organisation with the skills available in its pool.
By applying consistent definitions of professional ICT skills, SFIA provides clarity for job description expectations, career pathways and improves the alignment of workers to jobs given their skills and capabilities.
SFIA is readily accessible to:
SFIA’s collaborative development style revolves around open consultation from corporate and educational leaders with practical experience in skills management. This sets SFIA apart from theoretical approaches and contributes to its global success – SFIA is now adopted in nearly 200 countries.
mySFIA allows ACS members to complete a self-assessment to identify career journey opportunities.
It is available to all ACS members as an individual solution while the Corporate Edition provides an enterprise solution with enhanced capabilities and reporting.
mySFIA will identify a career path from a range of occupation roles such as ICT Architect, Business Analyst, Programmer, Data Administrator through to Chief Information Officer. It pin-points growth areas so individuals can target these for professional development.
In addition, mySFIA provides:
The success of our customer-centric approach is largely attributed to accurately identifying the right set of skills for both short- and long-term solutions.
Our tailored professional development solutions are designed by leading experts and partners and offer maximum flexibility. Delivered online, at your workplace or at one of our partner's training facilities, these include:
In addition, we offer ICT skills profiling for work teams with specialist solutions from third parties such as vendor certifications. These are aligned to SFIA and integrated into holistic workforce development plans. We can also integrate learning and development solutions for induction, onboarding and talent identification in your organisation.
The workforce planning solutions we offer include: