Recognition of prior learning

BSB40420 Certificate IV in Human Resource Management

RTO provider number: 110087

Australian Human Resources Institute Ltd

Overview

Program details

Recognition of prior learning

FAQs

What is recognition of prior learning (RPL)?

Recognition of prior learning (RPL) is an assessment process that involves assessment of an individual’s relevant prior learning (including formal, informal and non-formal learning) to determine the credit outcomes of an individual application for credit (National Quality Council Training Packages glossary).

This means your existing skills and knowledge may be recognised and credited toward the units required to complete AHRI’s BSB40420 Certificate IV in Human Resource Management.

Demonstrating Competence for RPL

To be granted RPL, you must provide evidence that demonstrates you meet all requirements of the unit(s) of competency, including:

Elements: The essential outcomes of the unit. You demonstrate this by performing the main tasks required

Performance Criteria: The specific actions, behaviours, and standards you need to demonstrate for each performance criteria

Knowledge Evidence: The knowledge required to perform the work competently, including processes, procedures, and information needed to complete tasks safely and correctly

Performance Evidence: The practical skills you demonstrate in real or simulated work conditions, showing that you can meet industry standards

Foundation Skills: The core skills that support your work, such as reading, writing, communication, problem-solving, learning, and digital literacy

Evidence Requirements

Your evidence must be current, and clearly show how you meet the Elements, Performance Criteria, Knowledge Evidence, Performance Evidence and Foundation Skills. You can submit a combination of:

Work Samples and Documents

Reports, forms, plans, templates, notes, logs

Emails, briefs, meeting minutes, project documents

Workplace records showing your involvement in tasks

Workplace Verification

Position descriptions

References or statements from supervisors/managers

Employer confirmations verifying your tasks and responsibilities

Practical Evidence

Photos or videos of you completing tasks

Samples of work you created or contributed to

Screenshots of digital work (if relevant)

Previous Training

Certificates, statements of attainment, transcripts

Additional Evidence (if needed)

An interview with an Academic Coordinator

A practical task or demonstration

Providing extra documents to fill any evidence gaps

How do I apply for RPL?

Contact [email protected] for more information. RPL applications and supporting documents must be submitted prior to the RPL application close date for each study intake. This will allow for either RPL being granted and/or enrolment in the relevant topic/s.

Here’s a step-by-step guide of the RPL application process:

Contact [email protected] to discuss your eligibility for RPL and clarify what evidence you may need to provide.

If you qualify for RPL, complete your RPL application and gather all supporting evidence demonstrating your competence.

Pay the RPL fee and submit your completed application along with any supporting evidence.

An Academic Coordinator will be assigned to assess your application. They may contact you to schedule an interview to discuss your application or request additional evidence if needed.

You will be notified of the outcome within four weeks of submission.

What is credit transfer?

Credit Transfer (CT) is defined by the AQF as “a process that provides students with agreed and consistent credit outcomes for components of a qualification based on identified equivalence in content and learning outcomes between matched qualifications.”

This means that where a student has been deemed competent in a previous unit of study, they may be eligible to receive recognition for that study as a ‘credit’ for an equivalent competency in AHRI’s BSB40420 package. Students must supply formal AQF certification documentation with their application for credit. This documentation must be issued by another RTO or AQF authorising issuing organisation or Statement of Attainment or certified VET transcripts.

Note that providing credit for previous studies is not recognition of prior learning. RPL is an assessment-only pathway of determining the competence of a person, while providing credit is recognising the equivalence in content and learning outcomes between different types of learning and/or qualifications previously undertaken and completed successfully.

A credit transfer will only apply where:

The student holds the same unit as included in the course they are enrolling into.
The student holds an old unit that is deemed equivalent (by training package) to the new unit in the course they’re enrolling into.
The qualifications are less than 10 years old.

Sometimes the unit will have been superseded and deemed as equivalent. Other times, the unit will have been superseded but not deemed as equivalent. AHRI can only grant credit where the unit has been deemed by the Training Package as equivalent.

How do I apply for a credit transfer?

CT applications and supporting documents (i.e. Statement of Attainment) must be submitted prior to the enrolment close date for each study intake.

Here’s a step-by-step guide of the CT application process:

The candidate informs AHRI of their intent to apply for CT by contacting [email protected] and requesting the CT Application.

AHRI team reviews the Credit Transfer application and supporting documents confirms Units of Competency that are deemed equivalent.

AHRI confirms if the Credit Transfer has been accepted within two weeks of application and processes enrolment into remaining units, recalculating remaining payments due.

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