Informal apprenticeship?
Oct 2nd 2007, 8:16 am
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Informal apprenticeship?
Hi everybody, not much of a poster but I read everything I can
Hoping somebody might be able to help because I am still a novice with things, but learning all the time!
We have recently passed the TRA and sent our visa application off so we are well on the way. We have friends who have become extremely interested in doing the same thing, but their problem is that he was doing an informal apprenticeship with a company, served four years of on job training, and the company went bust before he got confirmation of his training (going back maybe 20 years now) Things went bad between him and his boss because of this and they have never been in touch since.
What I was wondering is if they have any chance of actually applying for Oz or is their dream dead before it gets started?
Thanks ever so much for all information received
Jacky xx
Hoping somebody might be able to help because I am still a novice with things, but learning all the time!
We have recently passed the TRA and sent our visa application off so we are well on the way. We have friends who have become extremely interested in doing the same thing, but their problem is that he was doing an informal apprenticeship with a company, served four years of on job training, and the company went bust before he got confirmation of his training (going back maybe 20 years now) Things went bad between him and his boss because of this and they have never been in touch since.
What I was wondering is if they have any chance of actually applying for Oz or is their dream dead before it gets started?
Thanks ever so much for all information received
Jacky xx
Oct 2nd 2007, 11:34 pm
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Re: Informal apprenticeship?
Hi everybody, not much of a poster but I read everything I can
Hoping somebody might be able to help because I am still a novice with things, but learning all the time!
We have recently passed the TRA and sent our visa application off so we are well on the way. We have friends who have become extremely interested in doing the same thing, but their problem is that he was doing an informal apprenticeship with a company, served four years of on job training, and the company went bust before he got confirmation of his training (going back maybe 20 years now) Things went bad between him and his boss because of this and they have never been in touch since.
What I was wondering is if they have any chance of actually applying for Oz or is their dream dead before it gets started?
Thanks ever so much for all information received
Jacky xx
Hoping somebody might be able to help because I am still a novice with things, but learning all the time!
We have recently passed the TRA and sent our visa application off so we are well on the way. We have friends who have become extremely interested in doing the same thing, but their problem is that he was doing an informal apprenticeship with a company, served four years of on job training, and the company went bust before he got confirmation of his training (going back maybe 20 years now) Things went bad between him and his boss because of this and they have never been in touch since.
What I was wondering is if they have any chance of actually applying for Oz or is their dream dead before it gets started?
Thanks ever so much for all information received
Jacky xx
Oct 3rd 2007, 12:17 am
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Re: Informal apprenticeship?
Hi everybody, not much of a poster but I read everything I can
Hoping somebody might be able to help because I am still a novice with things, but learning all the time!
We have recently passed the TRA and sent our visa application off so we are well on the way. We have friends who have become extremely interested in doing the same thing, but their problem is that he was doing an informal apprenticeship with a company, served four years of on job training, and the company went bust before he got confirmation of his training (going back maybe 20 years now) Things went bad between him and his boss because of this and they have never been in touch since.
What I was wondering is if they have any chance of actually applying for Oz or is their dream dead before it gets started?
Thanks ever so much for all information received
Jacky xx
Hoping somebody might be able to help because I am still a novice with things, but learning all the time!
We have recently passed the TRA and sent our visa application off so we are well on the way. We have friends who have become extremely interested in doing the same thing, but their problem is that he was doing an informal apprenticeship with a company, served four years of on job training, and the company went bust before he got confirmation of his training (going back maybe 20 years now) Things went bad between him and his boss because of this and they have never been in touch since.
What I was wondering is if they have any chance of actually applying for Oz or is their dream dead before it gets started?
Thanks ever so much for all information received
Jacky xx
No-one knows exactly what an informal apprenticeship is - I had quite a frustrating time trying to pin the TRA people down on this question at a seminar in Sydney last Friday, but it's certain that your friend would need to have the specified formal training whether using Pathway B or Pathway C; whether he can find alternative proof is very much a question of evidence, which would depend on the circumstances.
Cheers,
George Lombard
Oct 4th 2007, 1:07 am
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Re: Informal apprenticeship?
Thanks for the reply George
Will let my friends know what you have said.
Jacky xx
Will let my friends know what you have said.
Jacky xx
Oct 4th 2007, 1:14 am
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Re: Informal apprenticeship?
I did pin the TRA down to what an informal apprenticeship was last Friday. In some countries there is a formal apprenticeship (indenture) contract signed and a completion certificate given at the end of the apprenticeship. In other countries there is a formally recognised apprenticeship system but it doesn't have the contract, this is an 'informal apprenticeshp'. TRA knows which countries have these type of systems.
It isn't correct to think that just because you did some on the job training that this will be accepted as an informal apprenticeship, it must be the system of that country.
Hope this helps clarify things
It isn't correct to think that just because you did some on the job training that this will be accepted as an informal apprenticeship, it must be the system of that country.
Hope this helps clarify things
