Professional Development

 

If simulation is part of your work—your input is needed

Across Australia, simulation work is widely used but rarely recognised as an occupation in its own right. As a result, it is inconsistently classified, difficult to count, and often invisible in workforce data.

For individuals this means that your simulation skills and knowledge are not counted in national workforce data, your capabilities are not readily assessable in qualitative terms, and your career path options are unclear and uneven.

For businesses it means there are no clear quality standards by which to assess the potential or actual capabilities of current and future employees, and no clear framework for ensuring the occupational validity of their claims.

The Professional Development and Career Path team of Simulation Australasia is working on a program to achieve future inclusion of ‘simulation’ as an occupation in national databases including the Occupational Standard Classification for Australia (OSCA).

We are building a clear, credible case based on evidence – which includes input from the people doing the work.

To establish that simulation belongs in the national base of people working in simulation we need all those who do such work to add the word simulation to your description of your work in the 2026 census.

This is a simple step with huge implications for the future of simulation as a discipline, career and business in Australian.

The 2026 Census is a key moment in the process of revealing the scale and scope of simulation work in Australia.

What you need to do

  1. Register your interest in this project at https://www.simulationprofessionals.au to help develop a picture of national activity
  2. Stay in touch with the project by registering your interest on the website
  3. In the 2026 census include the word simulation in your response to the questions about current occupation

We will keep you in touch with developments and may seek your help as the work proceeds.

This is how occupational recognition begins: with people prepared to stand up and be counted.
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