WHAT IS COMPETENCY BASED TRAINING?

To be eligible to pass your qualification, you must satisfactorily complete all the requirements of your unit of competency within a given time. This means that you will be assessed in terms of being able to perform the job to industry standards.


Competency-based training (CBT) is an approach to vocational education and training that places emphasis on what a person can do in the workplace as a result of completing a program of training that is skills based. Ideally, progress within a competency-based course is not based on time but level of underpinning knowledge.

Competency based training or CBT, focuses on what a learner can do as a result of participating in training.   At the end of training, a learner needs to be able to demonstrate their competency (ability to perform) in a new skill. There will also be situations where a learner doesn't need to do any training before they can demonstrate their competency. They may have learnt how to do the task in any other number of ways. What matters is that they can demonstrate their competency, not that they have taken part in training.

Under Competency Based Training (CBT), there are competency standards.  The concept of competency focuses on what is expected of an employee in the workplace rather than on the learning process, and embodies the ability to transfer and apply skills and knowledge to new situations and environments.  Competency is a broad concept that includes all aspects of work performance and not only narrow task skills.   Each unit of competency describes the work performed in the workplace.