What Skills Insight does

Skills Insight is an independent, not-for-profit organisation that operates as one of Australia's ten Jobs and Skills Councils (JSCs), holding a statutory remit over 13 industry sectors spanning agribusiness, fibre, furnishing, food, animal care and environment care. Established in 2023 as the successor to Skills Impact, the organisation is headquartered in North Melbourne, Victoria, and delivers national coverage through its own staff and delivery partners MINTRAC and ForestWorks (including FurnishingWorks). Its core mission is to forecast workforce gaps, develop national training packages and qualifications, map career pathways, and advise the Australian Government on workforce policy through a tripartite governance model that gives employers, unions and government an equal voice.

The organisation's core products are policy and qualification artefacts rather than software: national training packages and units of competency (e.g., the in-development Certificate III in Agricultural Production apprenticeship qualification, the updated Certificate II in Primary Industries and Rural Operations), industry skills reviews (Biosecurity, Veterinary Nursing, Landscaping, Racing and Breeding), career pathway maps, the TCF Skills Profiles and Mapping Guide, the Employer Best Practice Guide for Apprenticeships in Furnishing, and the Tree Access Package. Digital surface area is limited to a content-led website (skillsinsight.com.au), a Feedback Hub for stakeholder consultation during qualification drafting, an Attraction and Retention Guidance Web Resource for regional and rural SMBs, and a workforce planning Data Dashboard. The organisation reaches stakeholders through LinkedIn, YouTube, email newsletters, in-person workshops and webinars across every Australian state and territory.

Skills Insight is funded by the Australian Government Department of Employment and Workplace Relations under the JSC program and provides services free of charge to stakeholders. It has no disclosed revenue, no parent company, no subsidiaries, and no private capital raises. Commercial risk is structurally low in the near term but wholly contingent on continued government contracting; all information collected is owned by the Commonwealth if the organisation is replaced. Pricing is not applicable in the conventional sense, and the go-to-market is stakeholder consultation and policy influence rather than sales.

Name

Skills Insight

Legal name

Skill Insight Ltd

Website

https://skillsinsight.com.au

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Short description

Skills Insight is Australia's not-for-profit Jobs and Skills Council for agribusiness, fibre, furnishing, food, animal and environment care industries, funded by the federal government to develop national training packages, qualifications, career pathway maps and workforce planning resources for employers, RTOs, unions and government.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Workforce Development Services

NAICS

Apprenticeship Training (611513), Professional and Management Development Training (611430)

SIC

Services-Educational Services (8200)

akta.pro primary industry

Career Assessment & Skills Profiling (Assessments for Transition) (BPACAOAG)

akta.pro secondary industry

Critical Thinking, Problem Solving & Decision-Making (EDAAAKAH)

Keywords

• Workforce development services
• Vocational education training
• National training packages
• Industry skills reviews
• Workforce planning advisory

Headquarters

HQ city

Docklands

HQ country

Australia

HQ region

Oceania

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels7 records

Core offering

Skills Insight is an independent, not-for-profit Jobs and Skills Council that develops national training package qualifications, conducts workforce planning, maps career pathways, and runs industry skills reviews for agribusiness, fibre, furnishing, food, animal and environment care industries. It also advises the Australian Government on workforce policy, engages stakeholders through consultation workshops and digital feedback tools, and provides free employer guidance resources such as the Attraction and Retention Guidance Web Resource.

Product overview

Skills Insight is Australia's Jobs and Skills Council for agribusiness, fibre, furnishing, food, animal and environment care industries. It operates as a not-for-profit organisation delivering workforce development services including the Skills Insight Website and Web Resources platform, which hosts the Attraction and Retention Guidance Web Resource and Feedback Hub. The organisation provides Training Packages and Qualifications Development services, Career Pathways Mapping, and Industry Skills Reviews across 13 sectors. Currently, Skills Insight is developing the Agricultural Trade Qualification (Certificate III in Agricultural Production) with support from the Employer Best Practice Guide for Apprenticeships in Furnishing. A Data Dashboard supports workforce planning activities. The organisation also conducts extensive Events and Consultation Services including in-person workshops and online sessions to engage stakeholders in qualification development and reform.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Attraction and Retention Guidance Web Resource Online tool organised around the employee lifecycle to help small and medium businesses in regional, rural and remote Australia build attraction and retention strategies.
• Employer Best Practice Guide for Apprenticeships in Furnishing Comprehensive guide supporting furnishing industry employers to recruit, mentor and retain apprentices through to successful completion.
• Agricultural Trade Qualification Development (Certificate III in Agricultural Production) Development of Certificate III in Agricultural Production qualification with specialisations in broadacre cropping, dairy production, and livestock production for delivery via apprenticeship.
• Training Packages and Qualifications Development Development and reform of national training package qualifications across agribusiness, fibre, furnishing, food, animal and environment care industries.
• Career Pathways Mapping Service Project-based service mapping career pathways and job classifications to support workforce development and qualification alignment.
• Industry Skills Reviews Skills reviews for various industries including landscaping, racing and breeding, veterinary nursing, biosecurity, and textiles/clothing/footwear.
• TCF Skills Profiles and Mapping Guide Skills profiles and mapping guide produced for the textiles, clothing and footwear industry to describe job roles, skills, knowledge and career pathways.
• Tree Access Package Resource package for registered training organisations to secure tree access for nationally recognised training and assessment.
• Events and Consultation Services In-person and online consultation workshops, webinars and roundtables for stakeholder engagement on training package development and workforce planning.
• Updated Certificate II in Rural Operations (retitled Certificate II in Primary Industries and Rural Operations) Updated Certificate II in Rural Operations qualification retitled as Certificate II in Primary Industries and Rural Operations, with changes to elective units and packaging rules.

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed No

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Has API

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Partnerships

Four partnerships are on record, tiered core.

• MINTRACcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerMINTRAC is a collaborative partner supporting JSC activities related to their industry coverage. The partnership focuses on stakeholder engagement activities and JSC projects within specific industries supported by MINTRAC.
• ForestWorkscoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerForestWorks (including FurnishingWorks) is a collaborative partner providing support for JSC activities within forestry, timber, paper, fibre and furnishing industries. They support stakeholder engagement activities and deliver projects in partnership with Skills Insight.
• FurnishingWorkscoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerFurnishingWorks, a part of ForestWorks, is providing project delivery support for the Furnishing Apprenticeship Guidance Project. They have an enduring and strong connection working with the forestry, timber, paper, fibre and furnishing industries.
• Australian Cabinet and Furniture AssociationcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerThe Australian Cabinet and Furniture Association is a Project Delivery Partner for the Employer Best Practice Guide for Apprenticeships in Furnishing, providing industry expertise and guidance.

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves2 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Others

• TAFE Directors Australia: National peak body for Australia's public TAFE providers. Represents the largest segment of Registered Training Organisations that consume Skills Insight's training packages, making it a key downstream stakeholder and ecosystem participant.
• ForestWorks: Forestry, timber, paper, fibre and furnishing industry body and Skills Insight's named strategic partner. Supports JSC activities across Skills Insight's covered industries with adjacent training and workforce functions.
• MINTRAC: Meat industry training advisory body and Skills Insight's named strategic partner. Delivers JSC project work in shared sectors and operates adjacent industry training functions, making it a partner/peer hybrid.

Broad incumbents

• National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER): Australia's national VET research and data body. While not a JSC, NCVER is a federally-funded incumbent that shapes national VET evidence base and overlaps with Skills Insight's workforce planning and skills review functions.
• Australian Industry Group: Major national employer peak body representing broad industry sectors including manufacturing. Engages in training and workforce policy advocacy, overlapping with Skills Insight's employer voice in tripartite qualification reform.

Direct peers

• Future Skills Organisation: Australian Jobs and Skills Council focused on emerging industries. Uses the same tripartite, government-funded JSC structure to develop training packages and workforce plans as Skills Insight.
• SkillsIQ: Australian Jobs and Skills Council covering human services, justice, and community services. Operates the same federally-contracted JSC tripartite model with comparable training package development and stakeholder consultation functions.
• Public Skills Australia: Australian Jobs and Skills Council covering the public sector. Shares the tripartite governance model and federally-contracted JSC mandate for training package development and workforce planning.
• Mining Industry Skills Centre: Industry-focused JSC for Australia's mining sector operating under the same federally-contracted tripartite model as Skills Insight, with comparable training package reform and workforce planning functions.
• Industry Skills Australia: Another Australian Jobs and Skills Council covering automotive, electrical, plumbing, and other industries. Operates on the same tripartite, federally-contracted JSC model as Skills Insight, making it the closest structural peer.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses3 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xyoutube.com/@SkillsInsight
• YouTubeyoutube.com/@SkillsInsight
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/skillsinsight

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Number of profiles

Profiles9 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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