About Wodonga TAFE

You will gain the skills and knowledge you need to be a competent office admin professional working in the world of business, with employment opportunities available across a range of industry sectors and roles. Get qualified and build confidence and expertise while you learn the foundations of office and business operations within the workplace.

This course covers Business Administration at a supervisory level. It is suited to you if you would like to further develop advanced skills and knowledge of business administration across all industries. This course includes an introduction to leadership skills such as critical thinking, problem solving, and emotional intelligence, as well as effective communication and building business relationships. This course is open to all, but is best suited if you are already employed in a role where there is some leadership responsibility.

This qualification is ideal for you if your work role requires you to operate in the first line of management, and is suited to a wide range of organisational and industry contexts. Whether you are currently working in a leadership position or are an aspiring leader - this nationally recognised qualification will help you gain additional skills and knowledge to further your career. At this level, as a frontline manager you provide leadership and guidance to others and take responsibility for the effective functioning and performance of the work team and its work outcomes.

This qualification provides you with core business knowledge and skills to enable you to move successfully into management roles. It will build on your past experience and enable you to respond to opportunities in the workplace and meet these challenges with confidence. The skills and knowledge you gain from this course will equip you with the ability to work across a broad range of businesses and roles. Key learning areas include: managing budgets and finances, sustainability, leading communication, recruitment and onboarding, business operational plans, risk management, projects, managing personal and professional development, digital technologies for collaboration, and marketing.

Standard Certificate IV Develop your skills and knowledge to gain a supervisory role in an ever-expanding Agricultural sector! If you have a sound business mind and have practical agricultural skills and experience, or have completed a Certificate III in Agriculture, you could develop a career in the primary industry sector as a manager of a farming operation or agribusiness administrator. This course focuses on the practical technical skills, agricultural techniques and operations of running an agricultural enterprise.

This course incorporates the foundations of accounting, including setting up and managing accounting systems using cloud computing applications, preparing financial reports, budgeting, payroll, preparing and lodging business and instalment activity statements as well as preparing you to work as bookkeeper or within an accounts role. This course is suitable for anyone looking to get into the financial services field, or who wants to complement their current role with further understanding and learning.

This course is suited to you if you are looking to move into the management of others or to add value to your existing management practices. This qualification will help you build a solid theoretical understanding, and also increase your practical experience in the areas of leadership, business, and management. The qualification will provide you with core skills to help you move successfully forward in your career, and in your skill as a manager or leader.

Gain a wide range of skills and knowledge required for working within the horticultural industry. This qualification could lead you to undertake work as a parks and gardens worker at local councils, resorts, retirement centres or as a wholesale or retail nursery assistant.

This qualification is designed to meet the needs of assessors operating under the Nationwide House Energy Rating Scheme (NatHERS). Potential users of this qualification include NatHERS assessors, enterprises, government agencies, industry regulatory bodies, community organisations, building designers, architects and other building professionals associated with residential building thermal performance. You’ll learn how to read plans, drawings and specifications for buildings, conduct NatHERS assessments, adhere to regulations, assess and advise on thermal performance enhancing and how to collect the NatHERS information for assessment. Note: You should make yourself familiar with a NatHERS Accredited software application.

This is the base qualification required to gain a registration with the Building Commission of Victoria or a structural landscape licence in NSW. You will learn skills with paving, retaining walls, concreting, drainage and plant identification and establishment. This trade-level course could lead you to work as a self-employed landscape contractor or become a tradesperson or supervisor for a landscape company or a local government landscape crew.

Developed in consultation with industry, this course will provide you with a range of specialised knowledge and skills needed to care for, prune and remove trees. Develop a career involving physical strength and fitness, whilst safely and effectively tending to client needs and environmental issues. Whether you’re new to arboriculture or have been in the industry for a period of time, your knowledge, skills and ability to operate safely, effectively, and efficiently will certainly be improved with this course.

If you are interested in horticulture then this is your starting point. Horticulture covers a range of sectors including turf management, landscaping, parks and gardens, arboriculture, and nursery work. This course provides you with the skills and knowledge required for employment in the horticultural industry in organisations such as local councils, landscape contracting businesses, golf courses or nurseries.

Offering the foundation building blocks to your career in agriculture and offered as a public student or traineeship through your employer. This course offers the basic skills and knowledge that you will require to become a skilled person in primary industries.

This qualification describes the skills and knowledge for general job roles in agriculture, conservation land management and other related rural industries.

Individuals with this qualification perform tasks under broad supervision involving a broad range of skills that are applied in a variety of contexts, which will involve discretion and judgement in selecting and operating equipment, coordinating resources and applying contingency measures during work. Depending on the units selected individuals can be employed not only in the agriculture industry but also other rural and regional sectors, and community organisations.

Learn the technical agricultural skills and knowledge you need as a skilled person in an agriculture or agribusiness workplace. Building on existing experience to become a competent agricultural operator as a public student or as a trainee through your employer.

This course provides an introduction to adult learning, and is specifically designed for learners with evidence of a permanent cognitive impairment or intellectual disability. The focus is on supporting learners to investigate opportunities for active community participation and to develop self-confidence and skills for independent living. This course assists learners to develop life skills and supports self development so they can explore suitable future options such as employment, further study or community participation.

This qualification will develop your knowledge and practical skills to sort and classify wool into various sale types. You will learn skills in determining wool classing strategies, valuing wool, supervising work routines and staff performance, managing shearing and crutching operations, as well as classing wool for special markets. At the end of the course, you should also be able to provide information and advice on wool preparation, and implementing and monitoring quality assurance procedures. The course is available in Melbourne, Geelong and rural Victoria.

This course is ideal for those already well-versed in arboriculture - whether you have completed lower-level qualifications already or have significant practical work experience in the field.

Successful completion of this qualification will provide individuals with a broad range of specialised knowledge and skills in varied contexts to undertake manager and technical consulting roles in the arboriculture industry and as a pathway for further learning required for specialist technical consulting roles in the industry. Students will gain in-depth knowledge on tree identification, diagnosing tree disorders & defects and how to use this knowledge to prepare arborist reports for clients.

Gain valuable workplace skills and confidence with a Certificate II in Work Education offered in a supported environment at Wodonga TAFE. This qualification will enable students to continue to build confidence and essential skills for entering the workforce. Students will learn in the classroom and on the job through work placement options. This course will improve employment opportunities and ensure students feel more prepared to enter the workforce. Students practise interview skills with a careers specialist and investigate job opportunities. Resumes and cover letters are reviewed and polished ready for their future job hunt. While consolidating their skills, students will also complete industry units that are recognised towards Certificate II or III courses. Once complete, students may continue into other Certificate II or III courses or gain entry-level employment. Personal management, teamwork and communication skills will set students up for positive outcomes and a strong future in the workforce.

This course is designed to support post-school-age learners with permanent intellectual disabilities to develop the skills they need to explore work options and to access pathways to further vocational education and training. It provides learners with opportunities to improve their employability and work readiness skills, and to develop an individual education plan focused on personal strengths.

This course is the industry standard for training in chemical use, storage, and handling. It provides the underpinning knowledge for many workplace or industry quality assurance programs and is necessary to apply for a Victorian Agricultural Chemical User’s Permit. This course covers pest identification, label and Safety Data Sheet interpretation, legislative issues associated with chemical use, spray drift minimisation techniques, formulation types, control application, animal health, transport and disposal, preparation, clean-up, and other procedures.

The Certificate IV In Residential Drafting is ideal for:

• Direct entry of school leavers looking for a pathway to further studies
• Those seeking to gain employment within the building design industry

Begin your career as a draftsperson and gain hands-on, specialised skills required to gain employment with an architect, building designer or builder.

Throughout this course you will develop a range of skills including but not limited to:

• Inspect and assess sites to inform the design process
• Use CAD software to produce drawings for building design projects
• Apply compliance requirements to Class 1 and 10 building design documentation

Gain the practical skills for operation and maintenance of a pole saw as a national competency. This training is useful to get additional skills for the Arboriculture and Horticulture industries.

This course introduces you to the legislative requirements and safe working practices you need to operate a quad bike safely in an agricultural environment for satisfactory compliance with WHS practices. You'll learn how to ride a quad bike, use them for storage, and transport of materials, the safety parameters instilled in the bike, and how to operate one safely and effectively in a working environment. This is a useful course for all people operating this equipment, whether for work or recreational purposes.

This training is designed for those working in the agriculture industry or in other workplace situations where side-by-side utility use is relevant. This course introduces you to the legislative requirements and safe working practices involved. You will be trained in the most appropriate methods to operate these vehicles. This course is a requirement within industries that utilise these vehicles.

This course introduces learners to the legislative requirements and safe working practices required to operate a tractor safely in an agricultural environment. This is a useful course for people new to the industry, as well as those who would like to stay informed about current standards and practices. This course also includes tuition on the practical operation and maintenance of tractors and is suitable to meet workplace requirements for operators to have satisfactory and demonstrated competence.

This course is a prerequisite for undertaking the Diploma of Arboriculture. The skillset is aimed at those students who have several years of experience in industry, but they either don’t have qualifications or their existing qualifications are no longer deemed equivalent. This skillset will update your credentials by teaching you the most current methodologies for identifying trees, undertaking tree pruning and performing tree maintenance tasks. There may be some opportunities for credit transfers if you have existing units of competency that are still equivalent, or recognition of prior learning if you can provide sufficient evidence to satisfy the unit criteria.

If you want to gain a start in the civil construction, building and construction, or transport and supply chain industries, an EWP HRW licence is a great asset. Successful course completion will see you gain a national High Risk Work (HRW) licence to operate a boom-type elevated work platform with a boom length 11 metres or more which is required, by law, to undertake EWP activities in a safe and efficient manner. You will learn how to undertake site and job planning, conduct pre-operational checks, set up the EWP, pack up by retracting, lowering, stowing and securing the EWP, and stabilise the EWP for operation. You will also enhance your knowledge and experience in line with relevant legislation as well as different crane requirements.

If you want to gain a start in the civil construction or building and construction industries, a C6 Crane HRW licence is a great asset. Successful course completion will see you gain a national High Risk Work (HRW) licence to operate a slewing mobile crane up to 60 tonnes which is required, by law, to perform crane activities in a safe and efficient manner. You will learn how to undertake site and job planning, conduct pre-operational checks, set up and shut down the crane, operate the crane, move various loads, as well as follow hand whistle and radio communication signals from the Dogman. You will also enhance your knowledge and experience in line with relevant legislation.

This course will develop your skills in machinery operation, turf renovation, turf establishment, plant and weed identification, soils and plant nutrition, pests and diseases, management, construction of turf surfaces and occupational health and safety.

If you want to gain a start in the building and construction industries or work in the dairy or farming industries, a Victorian Telehandler HRW licence is a great asset. Successful course completion will see you gain a Victorian High Risk Work (HRW) licence to operate a non-slewing telehandler with a rated capacity greater than 3 tonnes which is required, by Victorian law, to perform telehandler activities in a safe and efficient manner.

You will learn how to assess the site and work area, to determine the capacity of the telehandler and attachment/s, conduct pre-operational checks, evaluate environmental conditions, select and fit an appropriate attachment, manoeuvring the telehandler in different conditions, as well as follow hand whistle and radio communication signals. You will also enhance your knowledge and experience in line with Victorian legislation.

Acquire the skills you need to work in a range of jobs, from an assistant to a tradesperson in a parks and gardens setting such as businesses with extensive grounds, botanic gardens, public and private parks and gardens and local government. You’ll cover topics such as plant recognition, plant growth habits, machinery operation, turf establishment and maintenance, soils, weeds, chemical use, pests and diseases.

Build the skills and knowledge you need to work in a variety of roles, from a turf management assistant to learning the skills required to progress through your career. This course will develop your skills in machinery operation, turf renovation, turf establishment, plant and weed identification, soils and plant nutrition, pests and diseases, management, construction of turf surfaces and occupational health and safety.