The Noonans

Hi all!

Just a question on the Resume that ACS specifies in their Application Process page.

It says a Resume must be the following:
"Details of qualifications held, brief details of relevant experience, and the periods of these positions. Attach a detailed written explanation of your professional information technology experience including positions held, projects undertaken and your contributions to them."

My understanding of this would be to draw up a brief and concise Resume, just stating positions, dates and short description of experiences and then attaching a more long-winded 'essay' type document detailing exactly what you have been doing throughout your career, including the projects.

Can anyone shed any light on this for me?

Much appreciated!

Thanks!
S

TheImmigrant

u r rite. CV shud contain only starting and ending dates whereas ur exxperience letters shud be detailed ones

rushmere

I don't think there is a fixed rule for this.

As well as two short employer references (1 page each), I included a single resume document of about 5 pages. It included a brief career summary at the beginning, followed by a more detailed explanation of the work I'd done.

My work experience was fairly straightforward (the same job and employer for the last 4 years), so other people will need to provide more information than I did. However, I do think that some people put too much emphasis on the quantity of information provided rather than the quality.

My application was approved.

Incidentally, I was group 'A' - it's probably different for other types of application.

Good luck with your application.

FionaandAndrew

I think Australian resumes tend to be longer and have more detailed descriptions than UK CVs, so I just padded mine out with more information.

Don't know what the South African CV is like.

I just went into a bit more detail than I normally would.

cherni

Well, what I'm doing is the following:

1.- Brief description of what I did in my CV. Ie:

2.- Attached a detailed work experience where I place more details for some of the projects I worked for. For instance, for my XXXXX working period, I did 3 pages.

I think that should do it.

Hope it helps!

The Noonans

Thanks everyone for your advice, much appreciated!!

Now if only hubby could stop working long enough to actually get his darn ACS application finished! (They are working him to the bone - or he's working himself to the bone!)

I am really nervous to apply because we applied a few years ago and were declined, twice - but that was because we calculated the number of years of work experience incorrectly.

I'm so nervous to get a negative response again - that will pretty much scorch our plans for emmigrating!!

elementv

Hi Cherni,

I am getting my present and previous employers to provide me with a reference stating the role, dates and a job description with about 15-20 points for each role. In your opinion would that suffice?
Thanks in advance for your reply.

cherni

Hi elementv,

I think that should do it. My ref letters have the following:

1.- Printed with letter head of the company
2.- The employer states my working period, full-time/part-time, salary or $/hs and position held
3.- Main 5 duties I undertook, related to my CV and detailed work exp.
4.- Closing arguments (where they say I did a great job and wish to work with me again)
5.- Their name, signature, e-mail, direct phone, position, etc.

Cheers mate!

Any doubts, feel free to ask... If I can assist you... I will

slackbloke

This does not meet the criteria specified in the ACS application process which are quite clear :

1) Employer references (dates, job descriptions and level of competence)
2) CV -standard CV provided by you
3) Detailed explanation - expansion of roles listed in CV, detailing specific skills, tasks, contributions, technologies etc - provided by you

Whether what you are proposing is acceptable, only ACS could advise, but it is not what they have requested.

cherni

slackbloke, I believe what he asked was in reference of the contents of the ref. letters. However, what you say it's true, there reference letters must be send along with the CV, detailed work exp, pay slips for recent job (if available), etc.

slackbloke

Cherni, the post being referenced by elementv (your post) was not about reference letters, but about the CV (summary and detailed), the implication being that elementv wanted to combine the detailed explanation in the employers references.

elementv

Cherni was right. I meant to ask about the employer reference letter. I will include the other documents too.
Thanks to both of you for your replies.