What is Career Boost Funding?

Career Boost helps Queenslanders to level-up at work, enabling them to grow and apply their skills to existing or new roles, and support productivity growth and workplace innovation.

The program delivers training to help individuals develop the higher-level skills needed to secure employment, advance their careers, or progress to further education and training.

Eligibility

Under Career Boost, you may access either:

• one funded training place in either a certificate IV, diploma of advanced diploma qualification under the general training pathway
• or
• a higher-level apprenticeship or traineeship in certificate IV or above.

In addition, under Career Boost, you may access up to 2 funded skill sets in priority industries or sectors.

If you have already accessed 2 apprenticeships or traineeships through a school-based apprenticeship or traineeship or Career Start within the last 10 years, you are not eligible to undertake an apprenticeship or traineeeship under Career Boost.

You cannot do 2 general training pathway qualifications under Career Boost.

General training pathway

To be eligible, you must:

• be aged 15 years or older, and no longer in school
• permanently live in Queensland
• be an Australian or New Zealand citizen, Australian permanent resident (includes humanitarian entrants), or a temporary resident with an eligible visa subclass
• not already have a certificate IV or higher qualification (including tertiary qualifications) completed within the last 10 years* (qualifications completed as a school student, and foundation skills qualifications don't count)
• not be enrolled in another qualification, even if it's on hold or deferred, whether funded by us (Department of Trade, Employment and Training) or not (foundation skills qualification don't count).

*Note: This eligibility does not apply to individuals seeking to enrol in a skill set.

Along with the eligibility criteria above, specific entry requirements or exemptions may apply to certain funded qualifications and skill sets. These are set by industry or sector requirements, as well as national training package guidelines.

Blueprint offers the CHC41215 Certificate IV in Career Development via Career Boost (Genral Training) Funding.

*Students must be an Existing Worker in the Community Services and Health industry

How much will you pay when using Career Boost Funding? The government will pay a portion of the training costs for your course directly to Blueprint Career Development. Students are required to pay a co-contribution fee of $20.00 per unit (non-concessional) or $10.00 (Concessional)