How to apply for the 2022 South Australian Training Awards

Don’t wait until the last minute to begin your application. Give yourself enough time to research, write and reflect.

Applications close at 5pm on Monday 9 May, so determine how much time you need to allocate to each criterion to complete your application in time.

Carefully review the eligibility requirements for your category, as well as the conditions of entry. Ensure you meet them before applying.

All questions in the application form have been crafted to encourage you to tell the story of your training success. What have you done? How have you achieved it? Use practical examples and provide evidence of your achievements.

After you have read the conditions of entry and selection criteria, consider some of the points you might want to raise and draft a dot point outline of what you want to cover under each criterion. Once you have done that, go through each criterion one by one and expand on the dot points.

Before you fill in the gaps in your dot point outline or finalise your application, show a draft to your employer, Registered Training Organisation (RTO), a family member or a friend - and ask for honest feedback.

Check the category guidelines to find out how many words you are permitted to use for each criterion and the number of supporting documents you are permitted to attach. Remember to use all your words, as Judges during independent judging will be giving a score out of five for each criterion.

Avoid using slang, jargon or too many acronyms. Use plain English and keep your language simple, clear, and concise.

And remember - always write in the first person!

Check your application to make sure you have answered all the questions. Don’t repeat the same information in more than one of your responses - don’t cut, and paste the exact wording you have used elsewhere.

Don’t refer to previous criteria (e.g., don’t say ‘as mentioned in Criterion 2’ when answering Criterion 3).

A letter, certificate, qualification, written reference from your employer and/or lecturer, testimonial, photograph etc can add real value to your application and support you to evidence your success. Attach documents that provide evidence and support the statements you have made and reference the attachments in your application.

Ask someone to proof-read your application - in particular, to check for spelling and grammatical errors. Once that has been completed, make sure you personally review the final draft before submitting it.

The application you submit for the 2022 South Australian Training Awards will be the same one that is used for judging for the 2022 Australian Training Awards, should you progress to become a finalist in the national awards program.

You won’t be able to make any changes or amendments to your original application, so when you prepare it, remember it will compete with applications from other states and territories.

• Up to five (5) single A4 page attachments.
• Each attachment to be provided at a 100 per cent ratio, with one document per page.
• Attachments should be referenced in the application.

• Up to ten (10) single A4 page attachments.
• Each attachment to be provided at a 100 per cent ratio, with one document per page.
• Attachments should be referenced in the application.