APS Career Pathfinder tool

Our new Skills playground function lets you see which skills will give you the best career options. You can play with various skills without impacting your saved skills profile (if you created one).

We have put a lot of effort into improving accessibility, addressing issues such as:
 

• colour contrast
• keyboard navigation
• zoom/resizing behaviour on desktops, mobile devices and tablets.

When enabled by your agency, an updated AI assistant supports two functions that provide skill suggestions:
 

• A chat function where you can tell the AI about your work history
• A scan text function to read pasted or uploaded text. This could be also used to read job statements or learning materials to assist with the mapping process.
   

Note: If your agency does not have this function enabled, you can use it in the public version.

Our new Skills playground function lets you see what interesting career options would come up if you had certain skills, without having to change your saved skills profile.

When the verification and certification function is enabled by your agency, you will be able to request verification (by a peer) and certification (by a skills assessor) of your skills, with simple bulk actions and mobile-friendly dashboards.
 

This provides more evidence of your skills and also helps you stand out in a talent search.

You can stand out in a talent search with a 300-word pitch, refreshed profile layout and updated icons that highlight verified and certified skills at a glance.

When enabled, you will be able to receive requests to verify colleagues' skills. You can manage these requests in the Assessment centre. 
 

Your agency may place restrictions on who you can/should request to verify your skills.

Agencies with a partition can enable the verification and certification function. Staff can then request verification (peer endorsement) and certification (by a skills assessor) of skills directly in the platform, with simple bulk actions and mobile-friendly dashboards. 

Skill verification can be done by anyone in the agency. Agencies nominate who can be an assessor and which skill frameworks they can assess against. Assessors can nominate which skills they are competent to assess.

Verifications and assessments are managed in the Assessment centre, which is turned off by default.

Candidates can tell their story with a richer 300-word pitch. Search options enable you to filter candidates based on self-assessed, verified or certified skills. This allows talent searchers to get a better idea of the talent’s fit before contacting them.

Bulk skills analysis will also tell you more about the skills in your agency, including whether they are self-assessed, verified or certified, and how long that skill has been in their profile. These reports are anonymised but give you a better picture of the full talent in your agency.

Our new Skills playground function lets you see which skills impact the most roles and can assist in prioritising training and development, and perhaps succession planning.

APS Career Pathfinder now features a responsive layout that adapts to various screen sizes, from small mobile devices like an iPhone SE to large desktop monitors.

We've introduced persistent top and bottom menus for easy and consistent navigation on smaller devices. All key features have been optimised for mobile, including role exploration, skill and interest selection, career planning, help and feedback. 

We are actively working towards full WCAG 2.2 AA compliance. This update includes making interactive elements accessible and operable via a keyboard.

For more details, email CareerPathfinder@apsc.gov.au.

If you are logging in from an agency that uses VANguard single sign-on services, you no longer need to enter your username and password. After you select Log in, click on Australian Government employee. You can then select your agency name and you will be logged in with your agency email address.

You can also use Career Pathfinder with a private email address and password by selecting Other user to login.

Partitioning provides APS agencies with their own private view (partition) of Career Pathfinder. In this partition, they can set up agency-specific frameworks and roles that may not be relevant to others. They can also conduct talent searches and extract data relating to just their agency workforce.

If your agency is interested in creating a partition of APS Career Pathfinder, please email CareerPathfinder@apsc.gov.au. 

When you are exploring roles, you can now use filters to focus on a particular profession. 

These currently include:

• Data Profession
• Digital Profession
• HR Profession 

We will continue to add to these in the future.

We are currently in the process of upgrading to SFIA9 and updating our role definitions. This involves widespread consulting with APS agencies and industry. If you would like to participate, please let us know at SFIA@apsc.gov.au.