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We know what you are thinking: “I have spent years in the industry. I have my university degree. I have solid client relationships and a track record to prove it all. I don’t want to study anymore!”
If that sounds familiar, don’t worry, you aren’t alone. It can feel overwhelming to embark on further study when your career is well underway. But that doesn’t mean there aren’t very good reasons to keep upskilling – and better ways to do it than ever before.
These days, a thriving career in tax is not just about having your fundamental technical knowledge down pat. Alongside what you know, when growing your career it’s also important to make sure your skills and knowledge are visible to the right people at the right time. Your experience is more valuable when it’s verified.
As we explored in our article on how digital badges raise your professional profile, a verified credential is machine-readable data that the tools recruiters rely on are specifically built to find and recommend. In a market where the tools doing the initial screening can’t read between the lines of a CV, verified credentials, updated frequently are how experienced professionals stay visible and competitive.
According to Coursera's 2024 research, 72% of employers are more likely to hire a candidate who has earned an industry microcredential, and that preference extends well beyond entry-level roles.
The CPD argument
As an experienced tax professional, you are already committed to continuing professional development in some form. No tax professional is a stranger to the need to keep skills and knowledge current. But not all CPD is created equal when it comes to your professional profile.
If you’re taking the time and effort to complete CPD hours anyway, why not do it in a way that leaves you with a verifiable, professionally recognised outcome?
A verified badge from The Tax Institute’s Tax Academy let’s professional connections know you completed a learning unit that’s been designed to hone specific, real-world knowledge and skills. It not only shows you completed a unit, but that you invested in your own development deliberately, and that you have a professional body backing that claim.
Where to start
The Tax Academy offers 33 individual microcredentials across three levels of expertise. All providing self-paced, flexible micro-learning and a credible way to building your verified credential portfolio.
Completing a unit and earning your Credly badge gives you a verifiable, machine-readable credential and 10 CPD hours.
If you are not yet across how the claiming and sharing process works, our step-by-step guide to adding your badge to LinkedIn walks you through the whole thing in minutes.
You’ve got experience, expertise, and a reputation you have spent years building. Investing in a microcredential as part of your continuing development ensures those important professional factors keep growing in a way that’s hard to overlook.
Which unit will you start with?
Top 5 Tax Academy units to consider today
Trusts fundamentals
Learn about different types and forms of trusts and how trusts are subject to the income tax law.
Superannuation fundamentals
Concessional vs non-concessional contributions, how super benefits and funds are taxed and regulated.
Taxation of capital gains
Complex CGT provisions and the key issues regarding the main residence exemption. Consequences when an individual dies and the provisions applying a foreign residency lens.
Tax planning and anti-avoidance
This unit looks at the consequences of avoidance, evasion and fraud for both the taxpayer and the tax advisor.
Tax policy
Understand and navigate the set of principles, rules, and regulations governing how taxes are levied, collected, and administered in Australia.