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SFIA Foundation products/services/partnerships

A wide-ranging set of suggestions through the consultation focused on how SFIA is accessed, consumed and applied in practice. These sit alongside the framework itself, in the broader ecosystem of tools, partnerships, learning resources and digital products that help organisations and individuals use SFIA effectively.

Several distinct directions emerged.

  • Some contributors focused on programmatic access to SFIA, including API access and other forms of integration that would support skills platforms and assessment systems .
  • Others highlighted tools that support specific tasks such as visualisation, dataset migration between SFIA versions, AI supported search and navigation, and self assessment .
  • There were also suggestions related to learning and adoption, including introductory material for those new to SFIA, structured training, and resources tailored to smaller organisations .
  • Partnerships were another theme. Contributors raised ideas about alignment with platforms such as LinkedIn, with training and credentialing frameworks such as AQF and VET, and with apprenticeship and qualification standards .
  • Finally, some participants encouraged the Foundation to share more examples of how SFIA is being applied in practice across different industries and organisation types .

How we will take these suggestions forward

These suggestions sit primarily with the SFIA Foundation rather than with the framework itself .

  • Some are already in motion or are being considered as part of the Foundation’s wider development planning .
  • Others will be reviewed in light of priorities and capacity .
  • Some ideas may not be the right direction for the Foundation when examined against its purpose, resources and long term strategy .

In all cases we will be transparent about what we conclude and why, and will report back through this site as our thinking develops .

Related suggestions raised at SFIA 10 workshops.

Disclaimer: These suggestions reflect the personal views of individual workshop attendees. They are provided substantially verbatim and do not represent the official position or endorsement of the SFIA Foundation.

  • Develop a career-development pathway tool, similar to the APS Career Pathfinder, mapping SFIA skills and levels to roles and professions at different classification levels, and showing what other roles a particular skill could apply to
  • Provide a simple summary chart for the generic attributes across levels 1 to 7
  • Provide API access for easier integration with skills engines and platforms, to support industrialised assessment processes and reduce manual error
  • Provide a tool on the SFIA website to help organisations transition datasets from SFIA 9 to SFIA 10
  • Support or develop better SFIA visualisation and interaction tools, given the variable quality of tools currently available from third parties
  • Provide an introductory course aimed at those coming from a very low base of SFIA familiarity
  • Integrate the SFIA website search bar with an AI model that could guide users through the framework, including reference to a CV or job description
  • Help consultants and practitioners bridge from familiar platform and tool conversations into SFIA's more abstract skill descriptions, possibly through content on the SFIA website
  • Share examples of how different types of industries (small, large, private, public and others) have successfully mapped SFIA to internal roles and development pathways, including example mapping templates
  • Partner with LinkedIn so that SFIA skills can be included in LinkedIn profiles
  • Provide marketing and supporting resources to promote mappings of learning resources such as AQF, VET training packages, and industry-accredited courses including Microsoft and LinkedIn Learning
  • Provide guidance or resources tailored to small and medium organisations (under 250 people)
  • Provide SFIA-backed or SFIA-led training modules to help close skills gaps in a way that is fully aligned and integrated with the framework
  • Support alignment of SFIA skills with digital and data apprenticeship offerings
  • Publish an automated self-assessment tool, particularly to help staff who find the nuance between some levels difficult to gauge
  • Absolutely appreciate the breadth of roles that you now cover and recognise that DDaT and CDDaT organisations need to have this. Is this likely to broaden further?
  • Clearer examples of level 6-7 impact without people management. Strengthen language describing senior individual contributors, deep specialists, practice leads without line management...
  • Guidance on applying the levels through use case examples, scenarios.
  • Expand descriptors to assist the user to better understand if their development and fit is  aligned to each skill/level. i.e. Skill Knowledge, Capabilities maybe suggested evidence to consider.