Skills Assessment and Assessing Authorities for visa and migration to Australia VETASSESS and GSM Registered Migration Australia. Skills assessment and assessing authorities for general occupations, Trades Recognition Australia (TRA), ICT professions, engineers and technologists, accountants, teachers, translators and interpreters.

1. Australian Visa
Skills Assessment Authorities
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2. Skills assessment and assessing
authorities
• General occupations…………………………….......... 3
• Trades Recognition Australia (TRA)…………....... 4
• ICT Professional………………………………............... 5
• Engineers and Technologists……………………….... 6
• Accountants and related…………………………....... 7
• Teachers……………………………………………………….. 8
• Translators and interpreters………………............. 9
• Q&A………………………………………………………..……. 10
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3. VETASSESS
VETASSESS assesses most professional and general occupations.
For a full skills assessment, VETASSESS considers the following
factors:
• the level of the applicant’s qualifications (i.e. bachelor,
diploma);
• subject matter of the qualifications; and
• the applicant’s work experience.
VETASSESS draws on the Country Education Profiles published
by the Australian Education International - National Office of
Overseas Skills Recognition (AEI-NOOSR) to determine the
equivalent level of overseas qualifications.
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4. Trades Recognition Australia (TRA)
TRA Job Ready Program is a pathway is available for international
students completing at least two years of trade studies in Australia.
There are two main stages:
1) Provisional assessment: this requires the student to have
completed the two-year study requirement and a Certificate III
or higher in the trade occupation, show Competent English
plus have at least 360 hours of work experience in the
occupation.
2) Job Ready Program: students need to work full-time for an
Australian employer in their trade for at least 12 months,
undertake workplace training approved by TRA, and pass a
workplace assessment to obtain a positive assessment.
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5. ICT Professional - Australian Computer Society (ACS)
If an applicant does not have an ICT-related qualification, they
may apply for a Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL). For skills
assessment purposes they need to have at least six years of full-
time professional ICT work experience (relevant to the
nominated occupation) if they hold a non-ICT qualification, and
at least eight years if they do not hold any tertiary qualifications.
In addition to evidence of work experience, such applicants are
required to submit two project reports providing a detailed
description of a career episode in their employment history with
sufficient detail as evidence of applying the claimed knowledge
to a working situation.
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6. Engineers and Technologists - Engineers Australia
The following occupational groups are assessed by
Engineers Australia:
• Professional Engineers: degree level qualification in Engineering;
• Engineering Technologists: diploma or degree level qualification in
Engineering Technology;
• Engineering Associates: diploma level qualification in Engineering;
• Engineering Managers: professional engineers, with experience in
management.
Engineers Australia requires at least six or more for each component of
IELTS but waives testing where the applicant is a native English speaker
or has completed a bachelor degree, masters or PhD in Australia or at a
recognised English speaking educational institution.
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7. Accountants and related
• There are three skills assessing authorities for a number of
accounting related occupations on the Skilled Occupation
List. A positive assessment from any of the following
suffices in applying for skilled migration:
• Chartered Accountants Australia;
• Institute of Public Accountants;
• CPA Australia.
All accounting assessing authorities now require a minimum
of 7 in each of the four bands of Academic IELTS, or
completion of the Professional Year in accounting.
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8. Teachers
Australian Institute for Teaching and School Leadership
assesses a number of teaching occupations. The main
requirements for a positive assessment are:
• completion of a minimum of 4 years, full time higher
education level study of which, one of those years involved
completion of an initial teacher education qualification;
• compulsory supervised teaching practice during the
qualification and the teaching practice must be under the
supervision; and
• seven or more for each of the four bands of the Academic
IELTS which must be no more than 12 months old. A waiver
is available for certain native English speakers and some
holders of qualifications taught in English.
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9. Translators and interpreters
There are two main pathways for skills assessment as a
translator or interpreter:
• Recognised qualifications: which require a specialised
bachelor degree in translating or interpreting. A degree in
literature or linguistics is not sufficient for this purpose.
• Examination: to be eligible for testing, the applicant must
hold a diploma or higher qualification in any discipline. NAATI
publishes a testing schedule, but it is also possible to request
an ‘on demand’ test.
Applicants can choose the direction of the test, either from
English to their preferred language or vice versa. Examinations
are not available for all languages.
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10. Questions?
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