News & Updates

In this blog, our VETASSESS Skills Assessment Experts answer some of the most common questions that we receive about trade and professional and general occupations.

If you apply to move to Australia as a skilled migrant, you will most likely have to undertake an assessment of your skills. Understanding the process will save you time and money by ensuring your application is sufficiently prepared, and will be more likely to lead to success.

Some occupations assessed by VETASSESS are listed as ‘nec’ which means ‘not elsewhere classified’.

The focus on skilled migration and education and training will continue in 2023, as the nation looks for solutions to its persistent labour shortages.

Applicants are expected to provide all the documents required at the time they submit their application.

Our VETASSESS Skills Assessment Experts answer questions about Priority Processing, self-employment and employment experience.

Apiarists and beekeepers who need a skills assessment for Australian migration purposes will no longer require a bachelor-level degree to satisfy the criteria.

Australia's migrant population has played an important part in the nation’s growth and prosperity, particularly following the shift in recent decades to prioritise global talent.

The VETASSESS submission to the Productivity Commission inquiry into a more productive labour market – October 2022.

All new and pending applicants in the occupations of Carpenter, Joiner, and Carpenter and Joiner who successfully complete a skills assessment under Pathway 1 will now receive the most up-to-date qualification: 

The Building Designers Association of Australia (BDAA) has endorsed VETASSESS assessment criteria for people seeking a skills assessment for migration to Australia as: