If you're looking for a career where your creative flair can shine, this industry area can be very rewarding and fulfilling. Offering a wide range of areas that you can specialise in including interior design, drawing, fashion design, printing and graphic arts, jewellery manufacturing, visual arts, music, floristry, and film and photography, the creative industries offer something for everyone.
Many of these qualifications and courses are delivered by practising artists, designers and craftspeople with excellent studios and facilities, offering you hands-on experience in both theory and practical skills. Specialist qualifications include Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultural arts, and multimedia game development.
Whether you want to launch your creative idea into a new business venture, get into the music business or fine tune your design skills, there's a qualification or course just for you.
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We’re making training affordable and accessible so you can boost your skills and be job ready as the WA economy recovers.
How about a free training course — yes... free! Or choose from over 70 half-price qualifications that match up with where the jobs are.
To meet the specific needs of businesses for COVID-19, we have new skill sets — fast track training to get you job ready — and to make sure anyone can get skills ready we have made a range of courses available online at TAFE colleges.
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If you'd love to work in the music industry — here, or anywhere in the world, the Certificate II in Music Industry is a great introduction to a musical career in either performance or sound production. This is an exciting and hands on course where you'll get to work with and learn from other creative people.
If you would love to work behind the scenes in the music industry, as a sound producer; the Certificate III in Music Industry (Sound Production) is for you!
Design your future, with an exciting career in prepress production!
This qualification, generally available as an apprenticeship, you'll gain the skills and knowledge use different equipment, systems, software and processes, and to analyse and evaluate information from different sources. It's the perfect place to start your career in digital design and output. Perfect for anyone who wants to work in digital media design. No previous experience is required for this course, just a creative mind!
Want to start a career in the world of print production?
This qualification is for anyone who has a passion for creating printed products by hand or machine, or who wants to learn all the 'behind the scenes' of the print production industry, as background for a career in design.
Did you know the printing industry is one of the largest manufacturing industries in Australia and, according to the AISC, it's responsible for employing almost 27,000 people!
If your dream job is working in the film, television or radio industry, or in content creation, you'll love this hands on course! It's the perfect introduction to extend your critical and creative thinking skills to work effectively in the contemporary screen and media industries, and could set you up to work in digital video, radio and online content creation, as a production assistant in film and television, a camera or lighting assistant, production or editing assistant — even as an interactive media or content author.
An exciting career in a growing industry is here for you!
If you're looking to get started in the film, television, and media industry with a specialist focus on animation and game art, this is the course for you! This nationally recognised qualification will give you hands on skills and knowledge to create digital content and work as part of a production team.
Animation is about so much more than just cartoons — it's used in a range of media including film, television and advertising! This is the course that can get you started on a career in the exciting world of animation, digital media and visual effects... your future career awaits!
If you would love to get a start in the film and television industry, this qualification will give you a range of job ready skills to create digital content and work on a production team in the contemporary screen and media industries .