
EVIDENCE
Evidence for a TRA skills assessment: can your paperwork prove the trade you already know?
Evidence for a TRA skills assessment, document by document: Employer Template forms, pay evidence, translations and the 3-year paid work test.
This is the trade qualification for carpenters in homes and commercial buildings. It covers setting out, framing walls, ceilings and roofs, installing floors, windows, doors, stairs and cladding, and formwork, all to building standards. If you already work as a carpenter, your experience may count towards it through RPL.
Carpenters working on residential or commercial sites who want their trade skills formally recognised.
34 units in total. A minimum of five (5) units must be selected from Group A; the remaining two (2) may be selected from Group A or Group B or from any group or current training package, as long as it contributes to a valid, industry-supported vocational outcome and maintains the AQF level of this qualification.
This unit has a prerequisite unit. Check the unit on training.gov.au for details.
This unit has a prerequisite unit. Check the unit on training.gov.au for details.
Completion of the general construction induction training required by applicable work health and safety (WHS) legislation is mandatory for any person carrying out construction work. Achievement of the current unit of competency that covers general construction induction training meets this requirement.
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EVIDENCE
Evidence for a TRA skills assessment, document by document: Employer Template forms, pay evidence, translations and the 3-year paid work test.

GUIDE
Trades Recognition Australia runs five skills assessment programs. Here is what each costs, how long it takes, and how to tell which is yours.

GUIDE
The RPL process in Australia step by step: self-assessment, evidence, interview, practical task and gap training, plus your rights and mistakes to avoid.

INDUSTRY
Residential construction is short of about 83,000 skilled workers. See how RPL can help experienced tradies turn their work into a recognised qualification.