Grow your capabilities now. Set yourself up for FY27.
June marks the end of the financial year. But it’s also the beginning of what comes next.
For tech professionals, EOFY is more than budgets, planning cycles and reporting deadlines. It’s a chance to invest in yourself before the year resets. To build capability now. To position yourself for new opportunities in FY27. And to make sure any remaining professional development budget doesn’t go unused.
That’s why ACS is encouraging members to continue the Skill Up journey: Assess, Grow and Certify.
The reality is simple: standing still is getting riskier. Seventy per cent of job skills are expected to change by 2030, while more than half of workers already lack at least one critical digital skill for their role.
The good news? You already have access to an ecosystem designed to help you grow with purpose.
Start with clarity. Build capability that matters.
Professional development works best when it’s targeted.
That’s where ACS Skillsoft comes in. Integrated with mySFIA, ACS’s skills assessment and development platform, it aligns learning pathways to both your current role and the role you want next. The updated platform was specifically designed to support skills management and career development with greater clarity and purpose.
Instead of spending FY27 trying to catch up, you can start now by identifying where capability gaps exist and taking action before the new financial year begins.
It’s the difference between:
Learning reactively and growing strategically
Browsing courses and building a pathway
Waiting for opportunities and preparing for them
EOFY is a planning moment. Use it.
Use your budget before it disappears.
Across organisations, June is often the last opportunity to invest unused professional development budgets.
The question is: will that investment go toward capability that creates momentum?
ACS supports capability building through flexible learning options designed around real-world schedules and professional pressures.
ACS Skillsoft is your on-demand professional development platform.
Members have unlimited access to learning content designed to help strengthen technical expertise, build emerging capabilities and support career growth at your own pace.
ACS Learning & Development courses
Structured learning designed around industry needs.
Whether you want to strengthen cybersecurity knowledge, explore emerging technologies or deepen specialist expertise, ACS Learning & Development courses turn learning into practical capability.
Explore ACS Learning & Development courses.
Professional development events
Growth doesn’t only happen through courses.
Events, summits, webinars and local meetups provide access to real-world experiences, new ideas and peer learning that help build confidence and capability faster.
Because career growth is rarely one thing. It’s continuous.
Search ACS events.
Expand your thinking. Not just your skill set.
Technical capability matters. But future opportunities increasingly belong to people who can think broadly, adapt quickly and connect ideas.
ACS’s broader knowledge ecosystem helps members do exactly that.
Information Age and ACS publications
Staying relevant means staying informed.
ACS publications help members understand how technology is reshaping industries, workplaces and society, turning trends into practical insights you can apply immediately.
Read Information Age and browse ACS reports and publications.
Technical Advisory Boards and Special Interest Groups
Professional growth accelerates when learning becomes collaborative.
By engaging with peers and specialists, members gain exposure to new thinking, emerging trends and practical solutions being developed across the profession right now.
And that visibility matters.
Discover ACS Technical Advisory Boards.
Growth creates opportunities. Recognition creates momentum.
It’s easy to think about capability growth as preparation for some future opportunity.
But EOFY is also a moment to recognise what you’ve already achieved.
Every course completed. Every skill developed. Every new capability gained.
It all builds toward recognition.
Industry certifications and professional recognition are increasingly trusted indicators of capability, while continuous upskilling remains essential as skills evolve faster than ever.
That’s why Grow doesn’t sit alone in the Skill Up journey.
Growth leads to certification.
Certification leads to recognition.
Recognition creates new opportunities.
So before EOFY arrives, ask yourself:
What capability gaps do I want to carry into FY27?
And more importantly:
Which ones am I ready to close now?
Start with mySFIA. Build your learning pathway. And grow your capabilities before the financial year ends.