Skilled Migrant Employment Program
The Skilled Migrant Employment Program (previously known as Skillmax) is fee-free* for eligible skilled migrants. Learners will complete the TAFE NSW Statement in Education and Employment pathways (CSO5555) course, which aims to enhance the critical skills needed when seeking employment, as well as to refine workplace communication capabilities.
* Eligibility criteria applies.
TAFE Statement in Education and Employment Pathways
CSO5555-V03
This course is designed to provide students with an introduction to vocational training and employment pathway options.
Gain skills to help you secure employment
The course content covers essential areas for a successful job search, including:
- Understanding of the Australian workplace culture
- Formal and informal communication for work
- Skills for telephoning in job seeking contexts
- Written language skills for job seeking including resume development and cover letters
- Written language skills for public and private sector applications
- Techniques for job interviews
Testimonials
Kanikaa K.
Graduate
Humayun M.
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Frequently asked questions
Step 1
Ask yourself the following questions:
- Do I have full working rights in Australia? Your permanent resident visa will give you this, but other visas, such as spousal visas, can also meet this requirement.
- Do I have an overseas qualification in a professional area? A degree, and sometimes a diploma studied at a higher educational organisation, will meet this requirement.
- Do I have an IELTS level of 6.5? If you have completed IELTS within the last two years, you meet this requirement. If you have done other English language tests (such as PTE), you will need to complete the registration form for your level, to be compared. If you don’t have an IELTS test, you can be given one by an assessor from TAFE NSW. There other conditions, such as further study completed in Australia, which may enable you to meet the requirements.
Step 2
If you think you meet all the requirements, or have any further questions please email skilledmigrant@tafensw.edu.au
You are eligible if you have:
- Permanent Resident status
- Bridging visa E, Humanitarian and some temporary visas
- IELTS 6.0 or equivalent
- Overseas professional qualifications (English translated)
Australian employers expect applicants to demonstrate both technical proficiency and relevant employability skills. A 2019 survey* by the National Skills Commission, showed that 75% of employers considered employability skills to be as important as, if not more so, than technical skills.
* Ref: nationalskillscommission.gov.au Search for: Skills for the future
Employability skills are attributes needed to perform well in any role. Not all employability skills are required in every job, but usually job advertisements will include at least one of them in the criteria that the applicant needs to meet. They have been identified and detailed in The Employability Skills Framework+ as communication, teamwork, problem solving, initiative and enterprise, planning and organising, self-management, learning, and technology skills.
Other terms for employability skills include core competencies, soft skills, foundation skills, and behavioural skills.
+ Ref: Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry and Business Council of Australia (2002) Employability Skills for the Future
Yes. It will give you real practice in how to give good answers to not only questions relating to employability skills, but also to the most common interview questions.
You will need to have a résumé that is in a suitable format for Australian employers. This may be quite different from what you currently have, however the courses will help guide you in developing an appropriate résumé for the Australian job market.
Past students have found the course extremely valuable in helping them to find employment.
There is a course workbook that you will have access to, once you are enrolled and participating in the course.
No. Typically, classes have fewer than 20 participants. This helps to ensure you receive more individual attention from your teacher, to help further increase your employability.
This is a job skills course, where the focus is on helping participants to improve employability. There is no direct focus on improving your English, however, an outcome of this course is that participants will gain information on how they can improve either general or workplace English, through self-study or other formal courses.