Get more training to secure a better job or move into a different industry. With more skills, you could find yourself in a better job with better pay.

Explore your training options with Choose a Career

Choose a Career is an easy-to-use online tool linking you to a whole range of industry sectors – from mining to media, science to sport. It can tell you:

what sort of skills you’ll need to enter an industry or job

  • where jobs are, now and in the future
  • quick facts about different industries, including wages
  • occupations in different industries
  • links to more information.

Visit Choose a career

Explore other career websites

A range of websites provide careers and labour market information to help you decide on your future career:

Myfuture has extensive information for career planning, including job profiles, training and higher education pathways and labour market information. Visit Myfuture.

The Job Guide provides an in-depth look at a range of occupations and their education and training pathways.  It also provides useful information about how to work out what occupations suit you best, based on your interests and abilities. Search the Job Guide.

Job Outlook is a careers and labour market research information site that provides search options on more than 350 individual occupations. Browse Job Outlook.

For a range of videos about getting a trade or skill, visit Skills One.

Career advice in your region

Do you need career advice to help you make informed choices about education, training and work?

Find the services in your region or call our Infoline. 

Talk to a private career adviser

Independent career advisers provide career advice for a fee. The Career Development Association of Australia (CDAA) lists qualified practising careers advisers in South Australia.

Visit Career Development Association of Australia

Skills for All Infoline 

Even though you’re working full-time or part-time, you may be eligible for a government-funded training place for increasing your skills or retraining in a different field.  With more skills, or different skills, you could find yourself in a better job with better pay. For information or guidance about where to go for information, call the Skills for All Infoline.  One of the team will be able to talk you through choices and suggest a course of action.

Call the Infoline.

Training providers

There are training providers across the state which offer courses.

Training.gov.au (TGA) is a database of vocational education and training (VET) providers in Australia. This national register has information on qualifications and courses, and registered training organisations.

Visit Training.gov.au.

TAFE SA course information sessions

TAFE SA is the largest training provider in the state. During January and February, it holds a range of course information sessions to help you make study choices for the career you want.

It’s your opportunity to meet with teaching staff, learn more about a course and discuss study options.

Course information sessions are held on TAFE SA’s campuses.

Visit TAFE SA course information sessions.

Make sure any previous experience or learning is recognised

If you’ve been employed, done some training or been a volunteer, you can talk to a training provider about having your current skills recognised and counted towards achieving a qualification.

This is called recognition of prior learning (RPL).

For more information, see Recognition of Prior Learning.