2023 — Australia’s skilled migration momentum continues…
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I work in XX or studied XX — I seem to overlap with several occupations. Which one applies to me?
The occupation under which you apply for Australian skilled migration is determined by your skills assessment. Each assessing authority in Australia has specific requirements around skills, qualifications, and work experience for different occupations. The outcome of your assessment generally depends on a combination of your qualifications and work experience.
Where you obtained your qualifications, how many years of work experience you have, your specific job duties, your employer’s structure — all of these factors influence which occupation(s) your assessment can cover.
For accounting, for instance, with qualifications + language proficiencyalone, you can obtain a skills assessment — by completing the required coursework and achieving the required language scores
For engineering and IT, , using qualifications + work experience, or a Professional Year (PY), to obtain a skills assessment — by completing a closely related degree programme, then adding a Professional Year or relevant work experience to obtain the skills assessment
For many other occupations, you can use work experience aloneto obtain a skills assessment (the required years of experience are shorter if you hold a relevant qualification). Occupations in marketing, finance, design, and public relations — among many others — do not require a relevant degree; work experience alone is sufficient.
The easiest way to find out which occupation(s) you qualify for is to contact us via the details below — we’ll arrange an initial assessment with a suitable consultant:

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Can one set of qualifications or one block of work experience yield multiple skills assessments?
Yes, it can.
Skills assessments are not conducted by the Department of Home Affairs or state governments — they are handled by individual assessing authorities. Aside from VETASSESS, most authorities assess one category of occupations:The most familiar examples include:
CPA / IPA / CA ANZ — accounting occupations
ACS — IT occupations
Engineers Australia (EA) — engineering occupations
Australian Association of Social Workers (AASW) — social work occupations
and so on
Because fields of study and work often overlap, a single set of qualifications or a block of work experience can yield two or even more separate skills assessments.
For example, some applicants can hold both a Accountant and External/Internal Auditor skills assessment simultaneously
The options are even greater in IT — certain IT-related degrees can yield multiple occupational assessments through ACS alone.
Engineering is the same. Civil engineering, for instance, commonly allows applicants to obtain an EA skills assessment in their core discipline, plus assessments as an Engineering Technologist or Engineering Professional; with one year of relevant post-graduation industry experience, it may also be possible to obtain a VETASSESS assessment for Draftsperson/Technician Draftsperson/ Technician and similar occupations.
Architecture and design students can apply the same logic.
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