stellaman

The guidlines for the employer references are as follows.
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Employer references
In order for the ACS to assess whether an applicant is in a skilled occupation acceptable for skills assessment purpose, the applicant must provide detailed and descriptive employer references highlighting his/her expertise in the claimed specialisation.
These must be on company letterhead and include the job title, detailed job description and precise dates of employment. They should also clearly state whether employment was full or part-time along with demonstrated levels of competence with any computer languages, the various types of hardware and software used and the extent of involvement with any major projects. Letters of appointment or contracts are not accepted.
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So does this mean My current boss or HR within my company have to create this reference. what have other people done for this.. Any Help is good. Just thinking about telling my boss that I want to eventually leave my Job for Sydney

As I said any advise on how you did this or what to do would be good

RedT

hiya,

there are a couple of threads on this subject over on the immigration forum so maybe have a wander over there. There are possibly a few ways around it but you have to be very wary of taking chances with this kind of thing as if you are rumbled, your visa could be cancelled!! My OH is facing this at the moment, not impressed at having to tell his bosses that he's leaving...albeit in two years time! No more pay rises or promotions for him if they know he's going!

Therese

Mairead

We had the same problem. You could possibly say to HR that you need a reference for a mortgage and it will have to include how long you are working with the company, job title, salary etc. Then go to a team leader or a colleague to get a more technical reference. I have some sample HR and colleague references if you need them just PM me.

ice mocha

so do you think one from HR and one from colleague is sufficient? i have 2 colleague refs and 1 HR....
will be telling HR its for mortgage

Mairead

Thats perfect. My motto is give as much information as you can. For each company my OH worked for we gave one employer HR reference, one colleague reference and a stat dec

ice mocha

stat dec?

Mairead

A statutory declaration from yourself detailing all technical information that your colleague or employer did not include in the references.

Sandy.l

Can I just add that you make sure the reference has a date on it (i.e. when it was written) as we have just had our most recent reference returned for that reason. Thankfully, OH's former employer has already fixed the problem (he reissued it within 24 hrs, impressive for a HR dept!), so it will be winging it's way back on Monday, so hopefully the delay to our application will be minimal!

datamile

Yup, check the rules on headed paper, dated, contact details. For the reference, as much detail as possible as they will initial start with an generic class, and move you to a specific one based on your reference/cv.

Have roles, responsibilities, dates, technologies with examples if possible, the type of stuff that a project manager could write rather than HR. Get some examples, or a get yourself an outline to start the manager off. It took me 18 months to get mine together to the right level as I'd been contracting for 15 years.

lushantha

can u pls send me those example letters to this address (pm for address) if u can grate help

Mairead

No probs.. PM sent