ACS Work Experience Deduction Calculation

The ACS migration skills assessment can be achieved if your educational qualifications and work expertise are of ICT level. It must be closely associated with the appointive occupation (ANZSCO) for migration functions.

• Requirements, course units, employment episodes are assessed to determine if it is considered an ICT professional unit or not. This assessment outcome can confirm if the qualification may be a Major, Minor, or if the ICT content is insufficient.
• Only the occupation closely related to the ICT units is assessed.
• Determines the amount of work experience required to meet the suitability criteria
• Employment episodes are also evaluated to determine if they are related to the nominated occupation.

ACS surveys your training to coordinate your degrees with Australia’s instructive framework and give authentication to guarantee ICT major or minor status, including your work understanding. A positive ACS evaluation is required to ensure instruction, work and mate focuses on Australia PR application.

Australian Computer Society will deduct a minimum of two years from your work experience, considering it as a training period. The maximum that is deducted from the work experience is six-eight years. However, the number of years to be deducted depends on various factors like work experience not aligned to the educational degrees.

Examples for reference purpose

Let us suppose you have a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or engineering that is an ICT major and closely related to ANZSCO code. You completed your qualification on 31st Dec 2001, and you have a relevant four years of work experience from 1st Jan 2002 to 31st Dec 2006. Your two years of work experience is deducted in this process, according to the ACS suitability criteria. Therefore, your Skill Requirement Met Date will be counted from 31st Dec 2004. The work experience after 2004 is taken as skilled employment and eligible for point test of skilled migration.

Whereas for a Bachelor’s degree with ICT major but not related to ANZSCO code like B.E in Electrical and Electronics,  a total of four years is deducted from your work experience. Electrical and Electronics Engineering is considered as an ICT major if this profession has the involvement of at least 25% of ICT subjects.

Graduates from non-computer science background are considered as ICT Minor along with a related ANZSCO code. A total of five years is deducted from their work experience. For graduates from MBA or other degrees, a total of six years is deducted. They are considered ICT minor and are not related to the ANZSCO code.

ACS ‘AFTER’ Start Date

The important topic is the “after month” that is mentioned in the ACS skill assessment report. ACS does not specify which date to use in your Australia SkillSelect EOI (Expression of Interest). According to the ACS guidelines, you can use the date you filed your ACS application to use in your EOI.

ACS Review and Appeal Application

What is the ACS Review application?

A review application is basically in place to formally consider the disputed results you have with your skill assessment result. This review of application involves a series of processes undergoing re-assessment of all your documentation by a senior skill assessor. The senior assessor focuses on the comments and reasons regarding your dispute for re-assessment. Review application should include additional support documentation along with fee payable for all review assessments.

Reasons for application review

Candidates may want to submit additional documentation not included previously in the original application. Other reasons might be wanting to be assessed under a different ANZSCO code or wanting to contest the result of the ACS skills assessment.

Note: The review application should be submitted within sixty days of receiving your skill assessment result letter. The documents submitted later as a part of the review is assessed together with the previously submitted documentation. If the result letter has already been used for migration purposes, then it cannot be reviewed. The application is to be submitted by logging to your skills assessment dashboard.

Appeal Application

Appeal application is submitted if you disagree with your evaluation result and believe a blunder has been committed in your skills assessment. You ought to submit your appeal application within sixty days after receiving the skills assessment result letter. The appeal fee is payable, and only one appeal is allowed per case. If the appeal is successful, the fee is refunded.

Note: Additional documents should not be submitted in the appeal application. After the 60-day period expires, a new application is required to be submitted.

ACS SKILL ASSESSMENT DOCUMENT CHECKLIST

All the necessary documentation must be submitted containing the following essential points:

• Integrate the pages in one PDF document for each qualification and employment record
• The Maximum upload limit for PDF is 3 MB, and make sure the file is not encrypted or read-only mode.
• High-quality color scans are required( maximum of 300 dots per inch)
• The documents are uploaded to the online application form
• Re-name the file while submitting additional or new documents to avoid confusion
• Screenshot the application summary page before submitting the application
• An accredited English translation must translate papers written in foreign languages into English.

It is advised to review the ACS requirements in detail before jumping into conclusions to avoid any mistakes.

• Personal documents

The candidates are required to submit a clear copy of the identification page of the passport. The name used in the application must match with the name in the passport. They must provide a copy of proof of a change of name and a curriculum vitae. If applicable, candidates are required to submit a proof for priority request application and migration agent authorization (if appointing an agent to an existing application)

• Qualification documents

This part includes a clear copy of the academic transcripts and other certificates or completion letter for the Australian qualifications. The educational documents must have a proper title of the degree along with the name of the University. It must state the date of the degree completed. The documents should also list subject names and the grade points.

An approval letter from the thesis supervisor, along with the abstract of the thesis, should be submitted.

Note: if you have provided Microsoft vendor qualification or CISCO vendor qualifications, the vendor login credentials are to be submitted in a PDF format for verification purposes.

• Work experience document

A recommendation letter on a company letterhead signed by the authorized person or a third party statutory declarations is the foremost requirement.

Employment reference part contains the details below:

1. Start – End date/ To Date of employment | hours worked | Specify country
2. Define duties performed in details about the claimed project work

Statutory Declarations

The documents should state it was witnesses before the authorized people, along with the proper date and place it was witnessed. A third party colleague must write it in a managed way. The work colleague must describe their working relationship with the candidate and the duties performed. The declaration must provide:

1. Employment certificate
2. Leaving certificate (if no longer working for the company)

• Payment evidence

1. This part must include at least two different types of documentary from the list of categories below.
2. Tax records, payment summaries, group certificate, a notice of assessment
3. Payslips and Insurance/superannuation documents quoting names of the applicant and employer
4. Bank statements showing salary records from the employer

ACS skill assessment duration

The maximum duration to process the assessment by the ACS as defined in their guidelines is from 10 to 12 weeks. If you prepare a decision-ready application with all the proofs needed, it will be processed in a small amount of time.

If the visa deadlines are less than 12 weeks from the date of the application, then priority processing is given to such candidates. Given that the evidence of the visa deadline must be uploaded as a PDF file. It may include the following:

• Visa stamps showing the deadline in their passport
• Visa entitlement verification online webpage showing the visa expiry date

ACS Skill Assessment Status

With the credentials provided by the Australian Computer Society, you can log in to your dashboard and track the current status of your report being processed.

ACS Skill Assessment Validation

The ACS evaluation is valid for two years, and the evaluation cycle is of 12 weeks.

Renewal of ACS Skill Assessment

After two years of the ACS assessment, the ACS evaluation gets expired. If the validity gets expired before the Visa lodgment process, candidates must renew their ACS assessments too. The renewal process requires your experiences to be updated. Candidates can indeed reuse their transcripts and diplomas. For fast tracking, candidates may send their old assessment reference ID for fast-tracking.

ACS Skill Assessment – Breakdown

Why RPL Assessment?

• To fulfil permit and administrative necessities in the business.
• Consolidating and approving abilities increased through the experience.
• Providing proof for advancement.
• Converting capacities into a general arrangement so the forces can be moved to various enterprises.
• Measuring the degree of capability that matches the candidate.
• Converting the abroad experience or expertise into Australian prerequisite.

Stages of RPL assessment Process:

• The motivation behind the appraisal must be built up.
• Required proof must be recognized.
• Evidence gathering techniques must be utilized.
• Interrupted verification must be given, and a judgment is made.
• The result must be recorded.

Assessment strategies will support the proficiency level, experience, educational background, and the culture of the candidate by ensuring the competency rules are followed. Adequate data will be given to the possibility of getting ready to proof. The RPL appraisal procedure will be finished by the certified RPL assessor, who is a specialist in the RPL practice and methodology.

Documents required

• Candidate’s position in his/her professional year
• Academic qualification and transcripts.
• Training documents.
• Documentation for the projects worked.
• Meetings attended by the candidate.
• Records of compliance.
• Task performed.
• PowerPoint presentations.
• The perception of the candidate’s workplace.
• Review of performance and appraisal documents of the candidate.
• Incident reports.
• Relevant license.

RPL Assessment Evidence Portfolio:

The applicant should assemble the data about their expertise, information, and performance referenced in the unit of competency. The competitors need to present an alternate kind of proof to support the RPL application. The candidate should contact the authority before preparing the RPL application. The documentation of the evidence must be addressed that supports the learning, and the distinguished instruction must be demonstrated and illustrated. The statements of information portray the experience of the candidate, and documentation gives the verification. Significant writing encourages the assessor to recognize the degree of fitness of the applicant. The document must be chosen in perspective on the assessor. The first phase, as suggested by our experts, includes focusing and analyzing your essential core knowledge and general ICT knowledge. Our professional writers will analyze your skills as claimed by you in your Curriculum Vitae. They then organize your information and produce quality output eligible to be submitted to the ACS. Each key area is further divided into parts given below.

1. Key areas of knowledge
   • Essential core ICT knowledge

• • • ICT Professional Knowledge
      • Ethics
      • Professional expectations
      • Teamwork concept and issues
      • Communication
      • Societal issues
    • ICT Problem Solving
      • Modelling methods
      • The process to understand the problem
      • Methods and tools for handling the abstraction
  • General ICT knowledge
    • Technology resources
      • Hardware and software fundamentals
      • Management of data and information
      • Data communication and networking
    • Technology building
      • Human factors
      • Programming
      • Information system development and acquisition
    • ICT management
      • IT governance and organizational issues
      • IT project management
      • ICT service management
      • Security management

1. RPL project report form

The second phase includes providing us with the details on the projects you have worked for during your professional career. We require two project reports from the last three years and five years to complete your RPL form. The form includes part given below.

1. Project summary
   • Identification
   • Duration
   • Resources
   • Personal development
   • Roles and responsibility as per ANZSCO code
2. Business opportunity or problem
3. Solutions
   • Contribution to the solution
   • Problem-solving method
   • Major deliveries
4. Results
   •  Solution implemented
   • Assessment about the overall success or failure of the project
   • Lessons learned

RPL Rejection 

The Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL) Project Report must be mirroring your work dependent on your genuine work understanding. The false and unreal information ought to be kept away from the report. Each RPL project must showcase ACS skill Assessment work experience in your working history with the proper information on approval in applying the positive ICT learning environment. All cited or rethought data must be noted, and all sources referenced in the ACS Project Report. Reasonable detail must be given to uncover the comprehension and broadness of your ICT learning. Some of the reasons for rejection are listed below.

• Plagiarized content will lead to banning from applying to the ACS community.
• The duplicate information or content from online assets would prompt dismissal of the RPL report.
• Inadequate work understanding.
• If your work couldn’t meet the qualification criteria, your RPL Report will be dismissed or evaluated as “Not reasonable because of the absence of experience.”
• Unclear job description without any relevant information

ACS RPL Report – Qualifications Criteria

Australian, as well as qualified overseas candidates, are assessed for a Skills and RPL assessment pathway. Only the Temporary Graduate and Post Australian Study assessment pathways require an Australian bachelor or higher level qualification to meet the suitability criteria.

The main objective of the course must be adequately defined, surrounding the area of information and communication technology. Millions trust this profession for conceiving, designing, implementing, maintaining, and managing the ICT infrastructure. The main target is to teach students to be an ICT expert. The outcome will promote graded transition of learning experiences from directed starting to the independent learning approach. The primary purpose is to encourage the dynamic improvement of a student’s knowledge and skills.

Accredited Australian ICT qualifications

Candidates who have Australian qualifications and been accredited by the ACS will meet the ICT Major Criteria. But this doesn’t guarantee that the qualification will be assessed as being closely related to the ANZSCO occupation.

Assessment of ICT Content in Tertiary Qualifications

Under this category, the qualifications are assessed as having either ICT Major or ICT Minor in computing. The ICT content, less than a minor, is evaluated as a Non-ICT qualification.

ICT Major Criteria

1. Bachelor’s Degree Level

Three year Bachelor level qualification is regarded as having a major in computing, given that at least 33% of qualification is ICT. The qualification that is longer in duration is assessed to the equivalent of a three-year AQF Level 7 award (Bachelor).

2. Diploma, Advanced Diploma or Associate Degree Level

Diploma, Advanced Diploma or Associate Degree is regarded as having a major in computing, given that at least 50% of the qualification is ICT. The qualification that is longer in duration is assessed to the equivalent of a standard AQF level 5 or 6 award

3. Post Graduate Degree Level

A postgraduate qualification that doesn’t require a Bachelor with an ICT Major for entry in the course is regarded as having a major in computing given that at least 50% of qualification is ICT. Qualification longer in duration is assessed to the equivalent of an AQF Level 8 and above award. Australian Postgraduate degree with only 12 subjects requires at least 67% of the ICT content.

Australian postgraduate qualifications must contain:

• A minimum of three semesters or at least one and half years of full-time study;
• At least two semesters or one year of full-time equivalent ICT content;
• A minimum of twelve units or subjects

A postgraduate qualification (Graduate Diploma, Masters, or Doctoral qualification) that does require a Bachelor qualification with a major in ICT for entry into the course must have ICT content of at least 33%, all of which must be at the postgraduate level.

ICT Minor Criteria

Bachelor level qualification is regarded as a minor in computing, given that the ICT content is at least two-thirds of the requirement for a major.

Insufficient ICT content

The qualifications with ICT content less than the requirement for a major are assessed as Non-ICT.

Closely related ICT content Criteria

The education qualification with at least 65% of the ICT content must be related to the claimed occupation for the suitability criteria to meet.

Statement of Academic Record

Your academic transcript should contain the list of subjects undertook and the grade points received. Web results and result slips are not acceptable. Candidates should include a legend or a key explaining the grading system to help clarify information if required.

Qualification Completed but Graduation Certificate is not yet awarded

If the candidates have completed their qualification but haven’t received certificates, an official document clearly stating the date of the course completion must be provided.

Thesis or Research Project Abstract

If the qualification includes a thesis or research report, an abstract of the thesis or the report is required. The abstract should be endorsed by the supervisor, along with the name of the university.  The publication name for the thesis must be included. The front page of the abstract should include the amount (%) and the nature of ICT content related to the nominated ANZSCO.

Region-Specific Requirements

• Bologna agreement

If the candidate is from a country that is a signatory to the Bologna Agreement; diploma supplement should be submitted.

• People’s Republic of China (PRC)

If the candidate is from the People’s Republic of China (PRC), the graduation diploma and the certificate of an award should be submitted according to the regulation concerning Academic degrees in the PRC.

• Pakistan

If the candidate is from Pakistan, an attested HEC (Higher Education Commission Pakistan) copy of the award certificate and full academic transcript must be provided.

• Philippines

If the candidate is from the Philippines, evidence of passing the Professional Regulation Commission’s Licensure Examinations should be submitted if available.

RPL SKILL ASSESSMENT-STEP BY STEP WALK-THROUGH

Australian Computer Society (ACS) is an authorized organization that undertakes skill assessments for skilled migration. Their role is to assess the skills and qualifications of ICT professionals who are considering immigration to Australia to work in the Information and Communications Technology (ICT) sector. Australian ICT experts expect to meet the standards of the ACS Code of Ethics and ACS Code of Professional Conduct. Applicants’ documents and claimed qualifications will be accepted once verified and validated.

Assessment Process

The ACS migration skills assessment can be assessed if your educational qualifications and work expertise are of ICT level and is closely associated with the appointive occupation (ANZSCO) for migration functions.

• Requirements, course units, employment episodes are determined if it is considered an ICT professional unit or not. This assessment outcome can confirm if the qualification may be a Major, Minor, or if the ICT content is insufficient.

ACS RPL report writing

Recognition of prior learning (RPL) is an assessment of the skills of a person that is not associated with any type of ICT degree qualifications.

Australian Computer Society (ACS) necessitates such candidates to have the listed skills before they can apply for the assessment. ACS first assesses such applicants with non-ICT or ICT that is not sufficient. The ICT professionals must list their claimed qualifications with proper work experience. So this can be the explanation that the candidate that lacks tertiary ICT qualification is compelled to submit the ACS RPL Report Form. ACS allows NON-ICT qualified professionals to showcase their skills.

Basic categories:

1. The applicants with no ICT background but have a bachelor’s degree require six years of experience in the field of information communication technology.
2. The applicants with ICT background but no educational degree to support the claim requires eight years of professional experience in information communication technology.

Guidelines as provided by ACS

The candidates are required to demonstrate how they acquired their ICT knowledge and submit a total of two Project Reports within an RPL application – ACS Recognition of Prior Learning Form.

• A detailed description of a career episode with sufficient detail of evidence in applying the claimed ICT knowledge in a working situation.
• A project performed within the last three years and another project over the previous five years should be listed
• The depth and breadth of the claimed ICT knowledge gained during the ICT employment should be recorded.
• Plagiarized works are strictly prohibited.

ACS will screen the submitted work for plagiarism, and you have to re-submit the reports with correction. All cited or summarized material must be referenced. The inability to unveil data for the Project Report that isn’t your own will bring about an inadmissible evaluation.

Employment reference letter

Work experience must be at an expert ICT level and applicable to the designated occupation to be surveyed as appropriate for migration skills assessment.

Employment reference letter rules to follows:

• Specific dates in a DD/MM/YYYY format for the total duration of the employment.
• Position in the specified field of employment
• Duties performed during the employment
• Previously played roles and responsibilities should be specified– if applicable
• Working hour – Full time/Part-time and actual hours worked per week
• Specify the country employment was undertaken
• Organization Letterhead marked by the approved individual ( (digital signatures acceptable and must be verifiable)

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The candidates identified with IT or computer background needs to set up the RPL report for a specific ANZSCO Code while applying for Australian immigration and evaluate the capability through RPL from ACS. It is critical to choose the most fitting ANZSCO code. While selecting the ANZSCO Code, candidates need to go through the job task related to the respective ANZSCO Code. ACS skill assessment criteria ought to be met, and work assignments must be connected to the experience and work understanding to get a positive result.

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ACS RPL Skill Requirement Met Date

The Skill Requirement Met Date will be noted on your ACS result letter and will be dictated by the result of the appointment criteria. All the relevant work experience finished after the Skill level requirement met date will be considered skill employment and qualified for points under the skilled migration points test. The work experience required to achieve the suitability criteria is excluded as skilled employment and isn’t adequate for positions under the skilled migration points test.

The ACS assessment will try to locate the earliest skill level requirement met date feasible for every evaluation types.

1. Employment concluded after the qualification
2. You complete a relevant Bachelor’s degree with a major in ICT on 31st Jan 2014, and you have four years of relevant work experience from 1st Feb 2014 until 31st Jan 2018.
3. Two years of work experience will be utilized to fulfil the suitability criteria, and your skill level requirement met date will be Jan 2016.
4. All reasonable work experience concluded after 31st Jan 2016 will be viewed as Skilled employment and qualified for the skilled migration points test
5. The two years of relevant work experience used to fulfil the suitability criteria are not adequate for the skilled migration points test but is evaluated to meet the suitability criteria.

Employment concluded before the qualification.

1. You complete two years of relevant work from 31st Jan 2008 until 31st Jan 2010
2. Additional two years of relevant work experience from 31st Jan 2011 until 31st Jan 2013.
3. You complete a three year relevant Bachelor certificate on 31st Jan 2016.
4. You complete a final two years of significant work experience from 31st Jan 2017 until 31st Jan 2019.
5. The skill level requirement met date will be 31st Jan 2016 because this is the date both the relevant work experience and relevant qualifications are completed.
6. Only the relevant work experience concluded after 31st Jan 2016 is considered as “Skilled Employment” and qualified for migration points test
7. All work experience completed before 31st Jan 2016 is not adequate for the migration points test.

The Skill Level Requirement Met Date is subjected to the completion of both the applicable qualification and relevant work experience. If your work experience is concluded before the culmination date of your qualification, the Skill Level Requirement Met Date will be dictated by the earliest date that both the relevant work experience ad qualification is completed.

 While the ACS is authorized to evaluate ICT skills assessment, the final decision in granting points stays with the Department of Home Affairs.

ACS result letter – Clarifying letter meaning

After the completion of your ACS skill assessment, the result letters are issued via email. The result letter can be submitted as evidence to the Department of Home Affairs.

Section 1: States the suitability result under the ANZSCO code picked by the candidates

“Your skills have been assessed to be suitable for migration under ANZSCO code 261313 (Software Engineer).”

Section 2: Will only report on suitable ICT capabilities and its AQF likeness and the ICT content. Qualifications evaluated as “Inadequate in ICT Content,” “Not Recognized,” or “Not ICT” won’t be accounted for in a suitable ACS result letter.

“Your bachelor of science in computer science from university ABC completed on Jan 2010 has been assessed as comparable to an AQF Bachelor Degree with a major in computing.”

 Section 3: The outcome of the letter will show the “Skill level Requirement Met Date,” which is determined by the ACS Suitability Criteria. All the relevant work experience completed after the skill level requirement met date will be considered as “skilled employment” and qualified for points under the skilled migration points test.

The work experience required to meet the suitability criteria is excluded as “Skilled Employment“ and is not qualified for points under the skilled migration points test. The ACS evaluation procedure will try to locate the earliest “Skill level Requirement met date feasible for every evaluation.”

“The following employment after 11th September 2017 is considered to equate to work at an appropriately skilled level and relevant to ANZSCO code 261313 (Software Engineer).”

Section 4: All the work experience surveyed at an ICT proficient level and firmly identified with the assigned ANZSCO code will be shown here. Employment dates must be determined until the date of submission. ACS reports Country of employment as either “Australia” or “outside of Australia.” Work experience evaluated as unsatisfactory will be shown here with the reason why it was not acknowledged.

Dates: 03/18-08/18 – 0 year(s) 5 month(s)

Position: Software Engineer

Employer: Company ABC Ltd

Country: Outside of Australia

Dates: 08/18-06/189 – 0 year(s) 10 month(s)

Position: Director of Software Engineering – Not assessable due to insufficient documentation

Employer: Company XYZ Pvt Ltd

Country: Australia

Scenarios for unacceptable work experience

1. Concurrent Employment

If the candidates perform one employment period simultaneously as another employment episode, then only one event of employment can be acknowledged at any one time.

2. Not Closely Related to the Nominated ANZSCO

In light of the data given in the documentation, the duties listed have been surveyed as not being firmly identified with the designated occupation.

3. Not Assessable due to Insufficient Documentation

The documentation provided doesn’t meet the necessities according to the Skills Assessment Guidelines or isn’t adequate to meet the assessment criteria.

4. Not Assessable due to Insufficient Detail

The documentation provided does not contain appropriate information for us to make an assessment.

5. Result Letter Questions

Candidates who wish to inquire about the result of the assessment can contact the ACS by means of email assessment@acs.org.au to talk about the outcome citing their Application ID reference number. You can refer to ACS Review and Appeal Information to submit additional information.