Certificate III

When you complete this course you will be ready for a career in Shearing Shed Hands or Wool Handler.

You will have the skills and knowledge to handle wool and work in a shearing shed. You will learn skills penning sheep, performing board duties, pressing wool, and preparing sheep for shearing and crutching. You will also learn about first aid, effective communication, responding to emergencies, and safety in the workplace.

When you complete this course you will be ready for a career in Wool Classing. This course is designed to provide you with a range of practical skills, technical training and communication skills for a career in Wool Classing.

You will have the skills and knowledge to be a Wool Classer. This qualification is also a specialist wool classing qualification for owner classers and enables them to apply for registration with AWEDX Ltd as an Owner Classer.

Love cooking and want the formal skills to turn your passion into a career?

The Certificate III in Commercial Cookery provides you with the practical skills and knowledge to plan, organise, prepare and cook food in a commercial kitchen environment. You'll learn about effective communication, occupational health and safety procedures and workplace hygiene.

Gain these skills:

• work effectively in a commercial kitchen team
• plan, prepare and cook food
• produce dishes suitable for different cultural and dietary requirements
• learn about cleaning
• first aid
• food safety programs
• hygiene
• workplace health and safety

Do you have what it takes to be an artist of the kitchen?

When you complete the Certificate III in Patisserie you will have the skills to work as a patissier or pastry chef in a patisserie, restaurant or hotel.

Gain these skills:

• work fast and effectively in a commercial kitchen team
• plan, prepare and bake cakes, tarts, petit fours, pastries and gateaux
• cleaning
• first aid
• food safety programs
• hygiene
• workplace health and safety

Make someone's day - hand them a coffee, a canapé or an ice cold drink!

Gain the hands-on experience and the skills you need to work in any location in the hospitality industry such as cafes, bars, clubs or restaurants or as a functions and events team member.

Gain these skills

• serve alcohol responsibly
• make espresso coffee
• serve food
• provide excellent customer service
• comply with hygiene standards
• workplace health and safety

An excellent qualification to launch your highly successful and rewarding career

This qualification will introduce you to a career in accounting. You'll gain essential accounting skills and terminology to help you manage finances for an organisation.

It is particularly suited to anyone who has just completed school, is contemplating a career change or re-entering the workforce.

If you have an eye for figures, can think on your feet, and enjoy working with others, then this is an excellent qualification to launch you towards a highly successful and rewarding career. 

 Gain these skills

• Recording and creating summaries of an organisation's financial transactions
• Processing journal entries
• Completing payroll and bank receipts
• Preparing, processing and maintaining financial records

Set your sights on a career in surveying

This qualification will provide you with the practical skills and knowledge to work with spatial data and read, interpret and apply maps. You will learn about safety, performing computations and the skills necessary to operate in the field.

Gain basic surveying skills and begin an entry level job in the surveying and spatial information services sector or continue with further study in surveying at North Metro.

This course may be studied by employer-based training or by off campus learning provided you have a position in an appropriate work place.

Are you ready to unearth a fine career?

This Certificate III in Mining Exploration will help prepare you for entry level jobs in the mining industry such as a pit or underground technician, drilling offsider or geological field assistant.
You'll learn how to collect and analyse geological samples, record information and look after the practical tasks involved in servicing a remote field operation.
You'll also learn basic vehicle maintenance, mining computing, first aid and mining methods.

To improve your employment prospects you will be enrolled in a four wheel drive unit as part of this course so you will need to have a current (manual or automatic) Driver's Licence.

Connect with people, engage with information and promote literacy and the value of libraries in the community

Our Certificate III will give you the skills and knowledge to assist in the organisation and operation of systems for handling recorded material - ultimately helping clients gain access to information.

This course, based at our Perth campus located alongside the State Library of Western Australia, has a strong customer service focus, and provides learning opportunities through practical hands-on activities, industry visits and guest speakers. Your lecturers in this course are library professionals, up-to-date with industry best practice and with strong connections with local library staff and organisations.

This is an ever growing and changing sector and is a vital component across various industries.

Build on your Auslan skills

This course builds on the Certificate II in Auslan and will provide you with the skills to sign in everyday social and personal contexts.

You will also gain an understanding of deaf community principles and practices, preparing you for a possible career working with Auslan signers/users.

 Gain these skills

• Analyse the structure of signs
• Understanding of issues in Australian Deaf history
• Use Auslan for a variety of purposes including employment, personal and learning