Making SFIA easier to consume
New structure for the skills pages | New searchable and filterable A-Z list | Career paths
Updated structure for skills pages
SFIA 8 page structure |
SFIA 9 page structure |
| Skill title and code | Skill title and code |
| Skill description | Skill description |
| Guidance notes | Guidance notes |
| Level indicator | Level indicator |
| Responsibility levels explanation | |
| Essence statements for each level | |
| Level descriptions | Level descriptions |
| Related SFIA skill | Related SFIA skill |
The main structural difference is that SFIA 9 includes additional sections that provide more context and information about the skill levels. Specifically, SFIA 9 adds:
- Responsibility levels explanation: This section provides an overview of what each level represents in terms of responsibility and autonomy and a generic description about developing skills and demonstrating responsibilities related to this skill
- Essence statements: These are a distilled representation of the level, providing clarity on what fundamentally differentiates one level from another. This provides a quick understanding of what's expected at that particular level. The generic attributes - in particular autonomy, influence and complexity - have always been a key part of what a SFIA skill level means. By bringing these together on the same page - this makes the link more tangible.
This adds additional text to the page so to aid readability they have been added using expandable accordion-style sections.
New searchable and filterable A-Z list
The A-Z list is a very popular page- only the home page receiving more visitors.
However, with numerous skills scrolling down to find your desired skill can be time-consuming, especially if you are unsure of the skill name.
To address this, we have added a search box that allows you to search for a skill title, skill code, or any keyword. This keyword search will typically return several suggestions for you to select from.
Visualising career paths with SFIA
- The Australian Public Service (APS) Commission and the Digital Transformation Agency have created an online tool which has been very popular in helping employers visualise a range of career paths for around 200 roles. While the roles do reference SFIA - they are, for obvious reasons, focussed on the APS needs.
- We thought other SFIA users would find something similar very useful.
- So inspired by this, we have created some visuals which align career paths with SFIA levels and descriptions. The images are available as hi-res pdf documents.
If there is interest we can create Powerpoint and miro templates for these diagrams too.
Recent changes - making SFIA easier to consume
- You can read about other resources and changes to the web site here