fogfurn

hi all firstly thank you every one for ur help in my previous posts.i hope ye can offer me more now.i am just wandering if emploment contracts that show job title/ job description and start date , would these do instead of a description of duties with title from your previous employers, or should i show both, it is just that i have original copies of my past emploment contracts with my previous employers.i am asking this in relation to the tra skills asses for australia.

Dorothy

Probably not. My job description/employment contract is different to what I actually do. If I were to list my main duties it would not look anything like what was written in my JDF. TRA wants to know what you actually do.

fogfurn

thanks for that, so should i not include my emploment contracts at all then

Dorothy

Include it if it's close to what you actually do.

The Bloke

Duties that differ from the job description seems to be the norm in business nowadays. When you say something, management always seem to have a convienient reply.

alipally

I'm not sure how much TRA has changed in the past 2 years, but the advice that we got ( and it served us well) was write your job description as if you were explaining, in detail to a moron, exactly what you do during a typical working week (longer if you need to get every point of your skill accross)
it took OH 3 pages of A4 typed.... another friend took 6 pages.
Remember that you're explaining your work skill to an administrator who matches up key words with a list to assess whether or not you meet the criteria for your title. the more you write the more likely you are to have ticked all the boxes by the end of your transcript.

Hope this helps a little.

Ali x

Dorothy

That's it exactly. When my husband wrote his it was filled with technical crap that I couldn't understand at all. I made him re-write it completely so that I understood exactly what he did in a day...Right down to describing the scredrivers he used!