Skills Assessment

The Department has outlined which skill assessing authorities are eligible to provide a skill assessment for each occupation. Some of the most popular and widely used skill assessing authorities include VETASSESS, ACS (for IT/computer related professionals), and for some occupations such as Accountants, there may be multiple assessing authorities approved to provide the Skill Assessment.

There are more than 600 occupations and almost 40 assessing bodies whom each have their own procedure, criteria and timeframe. The processing times vary for each occupation however the average processing time is anywhere between 6 – 12 weeks for most occupations.

If your client is looking to apply for skills assessment with Australian Computer Society (ACS), read our blog here.

Most Assessing bodies assess skills for nominated occupation based on education
qualification, professional licence (if any) and work experience of your client. The documents that are mostly required in these applications are as follows

• Degree or Award Certificate and transcripts
• Employment References
• Project Details Report if applying for Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL)
• Detail Curriculum Vitae
• Personal Identification documents such as Birth Certificate, Passport and Id Card

In some cases your client may also need to provide a short summary of each subject and its content to show relation of the degree to the skill assessment occupation.It is important that all documents supplied to the Authority are translated, well descripted and certified copies so that your client do not miss out on any significant experience due to lack of either an experience letter or extent of work performed in that role.If you are seeking assistance to get your clients’ assessment done, Discuss your Case with us today.

The assessing body checks your qualification and work experience against the ANZSCO code requirements.
Australia and New Zealand Standard Classification of Occupations (ANZSCO) is a system that collects, publishes and analyses occupation statistics across government agencies. It is used by the Department to capture information in all visa, settlement and citizenship programs.Importantly, it is used within the skilled visa programs as the standard by which a visa applicant’s skills and work experience to undertake a specific occupation in Australia are assessed.

ANZSCO sets out what level of qualification/s and experience are required to perform specific jobs and what your clients’ tasks would be in that occupation. If your client is applying for a visa under skilled migration, the Department case officer assessing their visa application will want to see proof that they have undertaken the required qualifications and/or have the necessary work experience as outlined for relevant listed occupation in ANZSCO.To know more about ANZSCO, read our blog here.