Quality auditing and compliance are two areas of significance for any business. Both these careers can take you through work in a wide range of industries, from finance to medical, food safety to manufacturing, and many more.
A Quality Auditor inspects the quality of products or services within a business or organisation to ensure they meet legal standards and quality assurances. Compliance, on the other hand, relates to ensuring the regulations and requirements set out by governments and industry bodies are being met within an organisation.
Either a quality auditing or compliance qualification will afford you the skills needed to succeed and fast-track you into a career in either position.
Becoming a Quality Auditor or Compliance Manager is a strong career choice for those looking for a job whose skills will take them across industries.
If you’re ready to begin your career in quality auditing, CAL’s online Quality Auditing diploma will afford you the quality management skills and knowledge to conduct end-to-end audits. Students will gain the confidence to be a strong quality auditor with our nationally recognised qualifications created by leading industry experts.
A Compliance diploma will teach you the fundamental skills needed to succeed as a compliance officer or manager. As you grow your career, you will be prepared to step into a compliance role and develop strong leadership and communication skills.
Having one of the best compliance certifications under your belt will allow you to be prepared to confidently step into a variety of business compliance roles. Develop key skills in risk management and compliance risk functions, leadership and quality auditing.
100% Online Learning
Approx 14-16 months part-time
Approx 12 months full-time
Compliance Manager$94,000
Compliance Coordinator$68,000
Compliance Officer$66,000
Enhance your Quality Auditing career and refine your skills to manage and implement quality measurement procedures and audits, ensuring compliance across your organisation. Learn to manage the quality of projects and processes, develop continuous improvement initiatives, and to get the most out of your team.
100% Online Learning
Approx 14-16 months part-time
Approx 12 months full-time
Quality Assurance Coordinator$69,000
Quality Manager$98,000
Internal Auditor$71,000
Having one of the best compliance certifications under your belt will allow you to be prepared to confidently step into a variety of business compliance roles. Develop key skills in risk management and compliance risk functions, leadership and quality auditing.
100% Online Learning
Approx 14-16 months part-time
Approx 12 months full-time
Compliance Manager$94,000
Compliance Coordinator$68,000
Compliance Officer$66,000
Enhance your Quality Auditing career and refine your skills to manage and implement quality measurement procedures and audits, ensuring compliance across your organisation. Learn to manage the quality of projects and processes, develop continuous improvement initiatives, and to get the most out of your team.
100% Online Learning
Approx 14-16 months part-time
Approx 12 months full-time
Quality Assurance Coordinator$69,000
Quality Manager$98,000
Internal Auditor$71,000
The best Quality Auditing courses to study are vocational qualifications, including the Diploma of Quality Auditing (BSB50920). Getting qualified with a Nationally Recognised course demonstrates a level of skill that employers can rely on, with the right combination of practical skills and interpersonal capabilities to move up the career ladder and apply your knowledge in a variety of roles and sectors relating to Quality Auditing.
Compliance courses are a perfect fit for online and self-paced study. By learning at your own pace, you’re not held back by the speed of the classroom, and you have the freedom to pause and pick up your studies around your schedule.
Whether you’re looking to upskill, change careers or kick start a new pathway, studying Compliance online is a smart choice to earn the practical skills you need to excel, paired with the flexibility to study when and where it suits you.
Our Quality Auditing course is designed to equip you with the technical and interpersonal skills you need to be successful in your Auditing career. A Diploma of Quality Auditing (BSB50920) will demonstrate that you have the key skills to get ahead, including:
Getting a Compliance Officer role in the Compliance industry is a key first step in your career. Studying a Compliance course will give you the foundation skills you need to kickstart your career and apply practical skills like managing budgets and financial plans and interpreting compliance requirements straight into your job. With a few years of experience, the right set of hands-on skills, and a recognised compliance qualification, you can look to make the move into becoming a Compliance Manager, or other managerial roles in the industry.
A Diploma course can take approximately 12 months to complete if studying full-time, Certificate IV courses can be as short as 10 months full-time, while you should expect around 18 months to complete an Advanced Diploma. The duration of your qualification also depends on how many hours you put in each week to study. However, at CAL all students are offered a generous 24-month enrolment period to complete their Compliance and Quality Auditing qualifications at their own pace.
Becoming a Quality Manager usually needs at least a Diploma-level qualification coupled with a few years’ experience to be taken seriously in the industry. A Quality Auditing course will teach the relevant technical skills and know-how like conducting end-to-end audits and project management skills, as well as the transferable people and business management skills essential for getting ahead in the quality auditing industry. Industry experience is strongly recommended, with most professionals having two years of experience before undertaking a Quality Auditing Diploma.
While quality auditing skills and expertise can take you across many industries, one of the most important ones is the food industry. Quality Auditors of food must make sure food is met to both organisational and health standards. They ensure food is safe for human consumption while also making sure the packaging, production, delivery and transportation of food meets regulations and health standards, too.
Quality Auditing can focus on both the products and services of the health and social care industry. Quality improvement auditors can work closely with government bodies such as the NDIS to ensure the right care is provided, or work for an individual aged care facility to make sure regulations and ratios are being met.
Other Quality Auditing roles in health care can include the oversight and checking of compliance of health related products and systems used in hospitals, doctors offices, and other allied health practices.
A career in Quality Auditing & Compliance is a strong option for workers looking to pivot their career into a sought-after position. Many of those in quality auditing or compliance have worked in the manufacturing or business sectors and are ready to work in a senior-level management and administration position.
Studying at CAL will teach you the practical and fundamental skills you need to succeed in quality auditing and compliance. Gaining a nationally accredited qualification will fast-track you into a position in either role. Be confident in leading internal and external audits, and managing, implementing and delivering quality measurement procedures.
Find out what roles and salaries you can expect in the quality auditing and compliance industry, and how a qualification at CAL can make it possible.
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Robyn has worked in the VET sector throughout Queensland for the past 5 years.
She has worked with domestic, international and school-based students as well as job seekers and other trainers.
Robyn has a background in education, where her teaching skills and understanding of students lead her to look at training. After owning her own businesses in Victoria, she gathered her knowledge, experience and skills to become a trainer to help others in the workforce or want to join the workforce.
Robyn has designed, developed and delivered assessment packages in business, travel, leadership and management, small business and foundation skills. She has also developed employability and life skill resources that she has used with job seekers and international students.
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