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Electrical work is licensed work. No online program can change that, and any program suggesting otherwise is dangerous. What this pathway does is make you the applicant an employer wants for an apprenticeship or a trades assistant role: safe, numerate, able to find a clause in AS/NZS 3000, and already familiar with the test sequence. Supervised practical components are delivered through Genutive's partner registered training organisations, and licensing decisions belong to the electrical regulator in your state or country.
This program runs six weeks rather than four because electrical work sits behind a licence. Two additional weeks are given to the statutory safety content, navigating the AS/NZS 3000 wiring rules, and the mandatory verification test sequence — material that cannot responsibly be compressed, and that partner registered training organisations require before supervised practical work. The four-week structure used elsewhere assumes no regulator stands between you and the work. Here one does.
Every week has its modules, a learning outcome, and an assessed submission with a deadline.
Week 1
Electric shock and arc flash — what actually injures people and how; isolation, lockout/tagout, and proving dead; safe work method statements; work health and safety duties on site; the licensing framework in Australia and New Zealand — who may do what, what supervision means, and the penalties for getting it wrong; the difference between an apprentice, a trades assistant, and a licensed electrician.
By the end of this week you can
State precisely what an unlicensed person may and may not do on electrical work, and refuse an unsafe instruction with the reason.
Assessed this week
Written safety scenarios including one instruction you must refuse, plus an isolation procedure you write yourself. Quiz on licensing and supervision. Due end of week 1.
Week 2
Voltage, current, resistance, and Ohm's law applied to real circuits; series, parallel, and Kirchhoff's laws; power, energy, and power factor; alternating current, frequency, and phase; single-phase and three-phase supply and why three phase exists; transformers in distribution; earthing, bonding, and the purpose of the protective earth.
By the end of this week you can
Calculate circuit values for a small installation and explain what the protective earth is doing when a fault occurs.
Assessed this week
Calculation set covering circuit analysis, power, and three-phase loading, under exam conditions. Due end of week 2.
Week 3
Navigating AS/NZS 3000 — structure, definitions, and finding the clause that answers the question; circuit and switchboard schematics; cable selection by current-carrying capacity, installation method, and grouping; voltage drop calculation; protective device selection and discrimination; earthing systems and the main earthing conductor; RCD requirements.
By the end of this week you can
Answer a compliance question by citing the specific wiring rules clause, rather than by recalling what someone told you on site.
Assessed this week
Open-book wiring rules exercise requiring a clause citation for every answer, plus a cable and protection selection for a supplied circuit. Due end of week 3.
Week 4
Delivered with a partner registered training organisation. Accessories, points, and switching arrangements; wiring enclosures, conduit, and cable support; switchboard layout and labelling; termination quality and why a loose neutral is a fire; segregation of services; workmanship that will pass an inspection.
By the end of this week you can
Produce terminations and an enclosure layout that a licensed supervisor would sign off as inspectable.
Assessed this week
Supervised practical assessed against a workmanship checklist at the partner facility, with a photographic evidence record for your logbook. Due end of week 4.
Week 5
The mandatory verification sequence — continuity of the earthing system, insulation resistance, polarity, correct circuit connections, earth fault loop impedance, and RCD operation; using and verifying test instruments; recording results properly; systematic fault diagnosis and halving the search space; common faults and what they look like on a meter; test and tag awareness.
By the end of this week you can
Carry out the verification test sequence in the correct order, record the results, and interpret a failing result correctly.
Assessed this week
Practical verification test sequence with a completed results record, plus a timed fault-diagnosis exercise. Due end of week 5.
Week 6
Building an evidence logbook that means something to an employer; how apprenticeships are structured and how group training organisations work; the pre-apprenticeship expectation and what employers screen for; trade maths and mechanical reasoning aptitude tests; interviews with electrical contractors; site induction, white card, and the first-week expectations that catch people out.
By the end of this week you can
Present as an apprenticeship candidate who is safe, numerate, and already familiar with the work.
Assessed this week
Capstone: written verification exam plus an apprenticeship interview simulation with an employer-style panel, and your completed evidence logbook. Due end of week 6.
A Genutive Industry Ready Certificate for this pathway, showing the assessed components and your Merit Score, plus a published project showcase and a rebuilt resume.
Yes — all modules, live sessions, and assessments are online. Where a program has a supervised practical component, that part is arranged with a partner provider and is explained in the curriculum for the week it falls in.
It depends on the program, and the consultation is where that gets checked properly. Some pathways assume an existing qualification or trade background; others are entry points. We would rather turn you away than take a fee for a program you cannot complete.
You can enrol from anywhere. Employment, internship, and any supervised practical component depend on your work rights and location, which your advisor will go through with you before you commit.
Based on consultation
Confirmed in your consultation — see Pricing for why we do not publish a single figure.
Book a consultationSign in to EnrolCandidates who reach Career Ready become visible to employers in the Genutive network, with their Merit Score and capstone attached. Introductions depend on employer demand and on your right to work in that market. No placement is guaranteed.
Consultation-led — not instant enrolment
Programs listed here are delivered through partner providers and advisor-led consulting pathways. Certification outcomes depend on program completion and assessment requirements. Genutive does not guarantee employment or visa approval.
Four weeks, online, with the same rhythm every week so you can plan around it.
Two scheduled live sessions each week with the program tutor — one teaching session and one working session for questions, code or case review, and feedback. Sessions are recorded. Tutor time is deliberately limited: it is there for the parts that need a person, not to re-read the modules to you.
Each week releases a set of modules with readings, walkthroughs, and practice tasks. Expect eight to twelve hours of self-paced work a week on top of the live sessions.
A short knowledge check closes each week's modules. You see your result immediately, and you can retake it until you pass — but only the first attempt counts toward your Merit Matrix quiz score.
Every week has a submitted piece of work with a deadline. Tutors mark it and return written feedback. Late submissions are accepted and marked, but on-time submission is what the Merit Matrix rewards.
The final week is a capstone reviewed by a tutor panel. It becomes the centrepiece of your project showcase, which is visible on your Genutive profile.
You are placed in a small peer group for the four weeks. Some tasks are collaborative and peer-reviewed, and collaboration is a scored component of the Merit Matrix — because it is the part of the work employers complain is missing.
Your Merit Score is calculated from four components. It is not a participation award, and it follows you into the job marketplace where employers can see it.
Tutor-marked weekly tasks and the capstone. The largest component, because it is the closest thing to the actual job.
Attendance at the scheduled live sessions. Recordings help you catch up on content, but they do not earn attendance.
First-attempt results on the weekly knowledge checks.
Peer review you give and receive, and contribution to group tasks.
A Merit Score of 70 or above moves your enrolment to Career Ready. That is the point at which the employer network, internship consideration, and marketplace visibility open up. Below 70 you keep the certificate of completion and can be reassessed, but Career Ready is a threshold, not a formality.
Internship placement is offered to successful candidates only. "Successful" means you complete the program and reach the Career Ready threshold of 70 on the Merit Matrix. Even then, a placement depends on a partner or employer having a suitable position open at the time, in a location where you hold the right to work. Genutive does not guarantee an internship, and does not guarantee a job. What we do guarantee is that you will be visible to the employers in our network with real, assessed evidence attached to your name rather than a claim on a resume.
A Genutive Industry Ready Certificate naming the program, the assessed components, and your Merit Score. It records what you actually did, which is why we can put the score on it.
Your capstone is published to your Genutive profile with the tutor panel's review, so an employer can look at the work rather than take your word for it.
A resume rebuilt around what you can now evidence, plus interview practice for the specific roles the program targets.
Career Ready candidates become visible to employers in the Genutive network and can be matched to roles in the job marketplace.
Program fees are set during your consultation. They depend on the program, your starting point, and whether a partner provider is delivering a regulated component alongside it — so a single advertised price would be misleading more often than it was accurate. The consultation is where you find out the fee, and there is no obligation attached to it.
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