21/10/2008
Top Questions to ask your Certificate IV in Financial Services (Bookkeeping) provider (RTO)
When you are evaluating which Certificate IV provider to use you should ask the following questions
1. Given my experience and qualifications, how would I now best approach obtaining my Cert IV with you?
2. What is that approach – Assessment? RPL (Recognition of Prior Learning)? Full course?
3. Is it a one type fits all course or is it tailored to work with who I am and what I can already prove etc?
4. What is the initial cost for entering that process? Assuming I follow through on any gap education with you what is the maximum amount I would need to pay to obtain Cert IV
5. Over what time period am I allowed to undertake the process?
6. How many hours both in the classroom and assignment or other hours outside of the classroom?
7. What style of Gap education – distance education or classroom or…?
8. If it is by assessment exactly what is the process if I don't pass some areas the first time?
9. Following initial assessment or RPL: Can I be provided with a “Certificate of Attainment” or similar and obtain that education elsewhere?
10. If by classroom – what style of classroom courses do you offer i.e. how many hours in how many days per week? (2 days per week for 16 weeks? / 1 day per week for 19 weeks? / 200 hours over 6 months?) any other options
11. Do we need to meet in an interview face to face or are we able to conduct any interview by distance?
12. What is your preferred method of providing Cert IV? Why?
13. How does your RPL process work? I may need to start and stop – how does that fit in?
