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APS Career Pathfinder tool

We designed the APS Career Pathfinder tool to help people explore digital and other career options in government.

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For individuals (how to use)

Explore your way forward

APS Career Pathfinder can help you find what you need to know for that next career step, whether you are:

  • in the APS looking to change or develop your career
  • thinking about working in government in digital.

Start exploring your career potential

Using the tool

You can find roles that match your skills.

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Or roles that match your interest.

Screenshot of APS Career Pathfinder tool filtering roles by interest. In this example the user has selected accessibility as an interest, and the page is showing typical accessibility roles in the APS.

You can see what skills you need and how to get them. The tool shows you:

  • descriptions of what the role does, in some case there are profiles of people doing jobs with that role now
  • details of the required skills
  • training specific to your skill needs
  • APSJobs to show you available jobs.

 

Image that describes how to get more detail about each role on the APS Career Pathfinder tool.

 

APS Career Pathfinder can also show you which roles are in high demand.

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Get offered opportunities

You can use APS Career Pathfinder privately, but if you are open to being contacted about opportunities you can:

  1. login to APS Career Pathfinder
  2. tell it the skills you have
  3. select the option ‘I’m open to opportunities’.

This will let authorised HR managers from other agencies find you when they are searching for people with certain skills. They may be looking for people to form a taskforce or project team. If you have the skills they are looking for, they may contact you to discuss the opportunity.

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For employers

See what roles require

Explore roles to see an overview of a role, and which skills are required and desirable at each level. This can assist you when creating a position description or when going to market for a new team member.

Help develop the digital skills of your staff

Encourage staff to identify roles they want to do and develop plans for how they can get there. APS Career Pathfinder identifies capability gaps and relevant training efficiently based on what skills a person has already and where they want to be.

The tool can assist you when considering what training an employee may need or when developing a performance plan with your staff.

Find skills in your organisation

If you are looking for people with certain skills in your organisation, please contact your HR team first. If they do not already have a HR manager who is authorised to search APS Career Pathfinder, they can contact us at CareerPathfinder@apsc.gov.au.

Understand your organisation’s skill profile

Workforce planners can access de-identified information to understand the skills their organisation has. Agency workforce planners can obtain access by contacting us at CareerPathfinder@apsc.gov.au.

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About APS Career Pathfinder

This tool is part of our strategy to attract and develop digital talent for the APS and Commonwealth. We consulted with industry and government to identify the critical and desirable skills for 200 roles in the APS.

The tool uses the SFIA (Skills for the Information Age) framework and the DCF (Data Capability Framework) with a learning resource catalogue mapped by Services Australia. The tool can utilise other frameworks and catalogues. The tool can also be modified and tailored to meet your organisation needs. If you are interested in using this tool, contributing to its development, or want to know how it can be tailored to meet your ogranisations needs, please contact us a careerpathfinder@apsc.gov.au.

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Updates to APS Career Pathfinder

We've added some new functionality to improve the APS Career Pathfinder in February 2025. 

Single sign-on (SSO)

If you are logging in from an agency that uses VANguard single sign-on services, you no longer need to enter your username and password. After you select Log in, click on Australian Government employee. You can then select your agency name and you will be logged in with your agency email address.

You can also use Career Pathfinder with a private email address and password by selecting Other user to login.

Partitioning

Partitioning provides APS agencies with their own private view (partition) of Career Pathfinder. In this partition, they can set up agency-specific frameworks and roles that may not be relevant to others. They can also conduct talent searches and extract data relating to just their agency workforce.

If your agency is interested in creating a partition of APS Career Pathfinder, please email careerpathfinder@apsc.gov.au. 

Professions

When you are exploring roles, you can now use filters to focus on a particular profession. These currently include:

  • Data Profession 
  • Digital Profession 
  • HR Profession 

We will continue to add to these in the future.

Provide feedback

If you have a suggestion about how we could improve APS Career Pathfinder, send us some feedback.

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