Obtain A Skill Assessment And Australian Visa As An It Professional?

To apply for a visa you must have experience closely related to the nominated occupation on the current skilled occupation list. Depending on whether your occupation is on the medium and long-term strategic skills list or short-term skilled occupation list will determine what options you have for visa applications.

As part of your visa application, you need to pass a skills assessment from the ACS. There are four application types for skills assessment requirements for IT professionals which will also assess the relevant work experience completed based on the information you provide. You will need to make a skills assessment application for one of the following:

• Temporary graduate. The temporary graduate pathway is suitable if you have completed a bachelor’s degree or higher in Australia.
• Post Australian study. For post Australian study eligibility, you must have completed a bachelor’s degree or higher in Australia and you need a skills assessment to migrate to Australia. You will also need relevant IT employment history with years of relevant work or to have completed an ACS Professional Year Program.
• Skills assessment. ACS will conduct a skills assessment to assess your tertiary IT qualifications and employment.
• Recognition of prior learning. Recognition of prior learning may be suitable where you have insufficient or no IT qualifications but have work experience only.

The following is a summary of the criteria requirements for an ACS IT skills assessment.