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Are you interested in earning a qualification that reflects your customer engagement experience? Have you seen reference to BSB40315 Certificate IV in Customer Engagement? This qualification experienced significant change in 2020 and was replaced by BSB40120 Certificate IV in Business. Your customer experience may make you eligible to receive the latest qualification based on the work you’ve already done. And you could achieve this without having to complete any additional studies, through Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL).
Our Skills Recognition Advisors can conduct a free preliminary assessment to confirm your eligibility.
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About the Qualification
What is the Certificate IV in Customer Engagement?
The Certificate IV in Customer Engagement was a qualification that first came about in 2009. At that time, it was called a Certificate IV in Customer Contact.
Over the years, the qualification was reviewed a number times until in 2015 it became BSB40215 Certificate IV in Customer Engagement.
In a review of all business qualifications, in 2020 the Australian government introduced a significant change that saw the Certificate IV in Customer Engagement absorbed into BSB40120 Certificate IV in Business. Officially, the Australian Government labelled Certificate IV in Customer Engagement as “superseded”.
Whilst there are customer service focused subjects (or units of competency) that make up Certificate IV in Business, there is no longer a specialty of customer engagement.
Instead, there are now three options to achieve accredited recognition of your Customer focused skills and knowledge:
1. Complete your Assessments for BSB40315 Certificate IV in Customer Engagement
You can complete your Certificate IV in Customer Engagement (BSB40315) still until the endorsed end date in 2022.
2. Enrol in BSB40120 Certificate IV in Business
You can complete the Certificate IV in Business (BSB40120), including some Customer service focused units in your Academic Transcript – the list of subjects you graduate with in this qualification; and/or
3. Choose to Complete an Accredited Customer Focused Skill Set
You can complete an accredited Customer focused Skill Set.
Sometimes, people call an accredited Skill Set by the terms micro-credential or a micro-qualification. The value of a Skill Set is that it is recognised and endorsed by the Australian Government which gives employers confidence in your accreditation.
The accredited Skill Sets, endorsed by the Australian Government, in the areas of traditional Customer Engagement skills currently are:
1. BSBSS00119 Customer Service Skill Set
Units from this skill set can contribute to credit towards BSB30120 Certificate III in Business (Customer and Client Engagement)
2. BSBSS00126 Contact Centre Skill Set
Units from this skill set can contribute to credit towards BSB20120 Certificate II in Workplace Skills and BSB30120 Certificate III in Business (Technology, Customer and Client Engagement)
3. BSBSS00128 Contact Centre Team Manager Skill Set
Units from this skill set can contribute to credit towards BSB50120 Diploma of Business and BSB50420 Diploma of Leadership and Management
WHAT DOES IT COMPRISE OF
Qualification Information
Your customer service experience as a supervisor can help you achieve the Certificate IV in Business or accredited Skill Sets through Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL).
When it comes to obtaining Recognition of Prior Learning in Certificate IV in Business, the starting point is that your experience includes some responsibility within your workplace – both for your own development and performance, and often for providing leadership in a team or guiding others. You may even be accountable for the work of others at a limited level.
Your depth of experience has built up enough that you have well developed skills and a broad knowledge so you can tackle the unpredictable problems that can arise on the job.
You can read more about BSB40120 Certificate IV in Business here.
A total of 12 units of competency must be completed in Certificate IV in Business. The units of competency required are:
- 6 core units; plus
- 6 elective units.
Once the core units have been addressed, you have the option of completing your Certificate IV in Business with some customer focused units that reflect your role’s responsibilities as well as your established skills and knowledge.
There is one specialty stream in Certificate IV in Business (Operations) that may best fit your customer service experience.
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About the Qualification
The Value of Your Customer Service Experience
Typically, your experience will involve more complex customer engagements – beyond the “hello, how can I help you today” interactions towards problem-solving and building strong relationships with customers.
Duties could involve balancing a variety of communication channels with customers, to handling customer requests and complaints. There would be a level of accountability and often Key Performance Indicators that had to be met. Customer service teams would be developed under your leadership, from coaching them to be better company and customer advocates to managing and interpreting customer data.
These skills and this knowledge is the bread and butter of clever customer engagement in our world of business today, whether your organisation is distributing products or delivering services.
The skills and knowledge of strong customer engagement strategies is still as current today as it was when the qualification was first created back in 2009.
Is My Certificate IV in Customer Engagement still valid?
Your Certificate IV in Customer Engagement is still recognised as a valid qualification. You can complete your studies in this qualification until 2022.
The qualification still attests to the level of skills and knowledge that you held to graduate successfully with Certificate IV in Customer Engagement.
The Certificate IV in Customer Engagement has simply been updated so it is not the latest version available to the Australian public. The latest version is BSB40120 Certificate IV in Business.
CASE STUDIES
How have others used RPL?
Ken
Transitioned from the Military into a Civilian Career
After 30 years of Military service, Ken was diagnosed with Type One Diabetes and had to be medically discharged. Ken was able to convert his service into an Advanced Diploma in Work Health and Safety, which helped him to secure civilian employment at a management level, and also achieve a better quality of life for himself and his family.
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Brendan
Taming the Black Dog
Police Officer – Brendan Maccione recently achieved five Diplomas and a Certificate III through RPL. A great result for anyone, but particularly significant for Brendan who reached breaking point in a café with his young children, and had to open up about the fact he was suffering PTSD.
View Case StudyMore details, fees and the Recognition of Prior Learning Process
Fees & Payment
Fees and Payment
RPL Process
RPL Process
How does the RPL process work?
- We conduct a free preliminary skills assessment and give you a report
- You tell us the qualifications you want and provide evidence
- You receive nationally recognised qualifications!
Let's step this out a bit more:
Step 1. We conduct a free preliminary skills assessment and give you a report.
The RPL process begins with a conversation with one of our Skills Recognition Advisors.
- You tell us what you're looking for and where you want to go
- You provide a few easily accessible documents
- You'll be sent a report within 48 hours. This will include a breakdown of costs involved and lists the qualifications:
- you could be eligible for right now;
- you could be eligible for if you are able to provide some further evidence (and we'll share with you what the gaps are and the evidence we'd need); or
- if training would be your best option. We don't offer the training so we'll give you some information about how to locate a training organisation who delivers what you are looking for.
This is cost-free and obligation-free.
Step 2. You tell us the qualifications you want and provide evidence
You can make an informed decision about which qualifications are best for you and your career. Once this is confirmed, we can complete the process.
- We tell you exactly what evidence we need to establish your competency in the units that make up a qualification
- You provide your evidence, then you can sit back and relax!
- We match the evidence to the units. This is called mapping. Other providers may get you to do this yourself.
Step 3. You receive nationally recognised qualifications!
Congratulations! Your experience has been validated and translated into nationally recognised qualifications.
- To save you time, we submit all the paperwork to the government for you. This formalises your qualifications.
- You receive your qualifications though both email and post, within 14 days. Or, with our VIP Fast-Track Service, you can have them in just 7 days.
Nationally Recognised Qualifications
Nationally Recognised Qualifications
Are RPL qualifications nationally recognised? Yes.
Churchill Education is a registered training organisation, RTO:31430. This means that we are regulated by the Australian Skills Quality Authority (ASQA), the Australian Government regulatory body for the VET sector.
The qualifications that we offer are nationally recognised, and issued under the Australian Qualifications Framework (AQF). Accordingly, they’re exactly the same as those granted by other educational institutions such as TAFE..
Subjects
Subjects
View the core and elective units that this qualification can be comprised of through Recognition of Prior Learning.