Things to consider in an employment reference letter

Looking for migration to Australia as a skilled ITC professional?

Attention guys!

Here is a chance for you. In many cases, candidates don't have a proper ICT qualification to show. An “Employment reference letter” certainly helps you to achieve your desire. Hurry up! Get a reference letter and showcase your knowledge Your employment letter should consist of the following mentioned below.

• Should have work experience in ICT at a professional level and should be relevant to the nominated job role (ANZSCO)
• Work experience should be gathered at a proper level before moving on to have skill assessment. The minimum standard of work experience has been stated by ACS clearly, which is highly essential to meet the required skill level. The date on which the minimum level of skill is achieved will be granted as the initiation point of migration by being a skilled employee.
• It is very much important to have a basic level of experience in order to be a skilled employee. The work experience, before achieving the minimal standardised level of experience, will not be considered as sufficient and this may affect your RPL negatively. Your RPL will be evaluated as improper for migration for the gap in experience.
• The format of writing the date has been standardised as DD/MM/YY format in case of preparation of the reference. It is very quintessential for you to mention your starting and ending dates in order to state your working experience in the reference letter. If you are currently employed, then please write “To date” in case of ending date. This will refer that, the date of writing reference letter is the maximum date of your experience.
• Try to mention as many employment tasks as possible in the reference letter for getting a better response. However, the task should be relevant to your nominated job role. It has been standardised that. 65% of your description about the employment task in your letter should be relevant to your nominated job role and please try to provide a detailed description of them. I am mentioning this here as per the standardisation of ANZSCO. In the other case, your RPL will be assessed as improper for immigration.
• One thing, you should keep in mind that, if you do some work along with your qualification then that experience should not be granted by the ANZSCO authority as “Skilled employment”. This experience will be evaluated as “Concurrent employment” in your RPL.
• Be cautious about the time of your work while acquiring experience for immigration. The immigration authority has also standardised the fact for you and the issue of full-time and part-time work is there. It has been clearly mentioned that weekly 20 hours duty is the minimum criteria to be a full-time employee and you have to mention this in your reference letter.
• Must include specified information regarding your performance and skills shown by you in every reference. This information will be approved by your employer. Keep in mind, that, without proper information about your skill and performance level in your professional field your RPL will not be up to the mark for immigration.
• Attention again! The name of the country, where you have worked to acquire professional experience is very important. Hence, don't forget to mention it in your reference letter. If you do your job over more than one country for a single company, then mention all of them clearly (with date) in your letter.
• Signature of the employer in the “Employment reference letter” is one of the most important facts associated with the validity of the same. The signature of the employment authority or the employer signifies his/her approval about the mentioned information in the letter. Be conscious in mentioning the name, contact, reference and designation as well, of the signing authority in the reference letter. Slip in any of the attributes may lead to cancellation of your employment reference letter.
• Please certify your reference letter. Certification should be done by any of the authorised notaries. Lack of certification also lead to your RPL as improper for immigration as the certified copy of your employment reference letter will be considered as the assessment of your ACS skill.
• Honesty is the best policy! Try to avoid any kind of fraudulent means. Don’t copy the working experience and relevant attributes from any other resources. Mention your true work skill and performance level along with level of experience in your reference letter.
• Try to mention your skills and professional performances more specifically along with your nomination of the job role. The reference letter is all about proving your professional competency in the process of evaluation. Hence, try to focus more on your strong points and domain of efficiency.

What are the procedures of writing an RPL Letter

Obtained skill certification for work and life experience is mainly called the RPL reporting. The qualifications also meet the Government regulations of Australia for different promotions. What are the procedures of writing an RPL Letter? It also helps migrants to reduce time in classrooms and obtain accreditation for their required skills. Even, the RTOs have the power to make approval for RPL also by getting approval from the Australian Skills Quality Authority (ASQA) of the Australian government regulatory for VET Sector.

What Are Study Necessities For RPL?

RPL mainly assist students to provide less time in studies and primary education for getting advanced knowledge in a specific field. Even, RPL is also called as RCC (Recognition of Current Competencies) through which module completion becomes easy and competency can be got in an easy manner.

Even, it helps to get a new job with confidence in spite of having fewer skills or practical work experience. The power competence is transferred into conditional accreditation for the below-mentioned causes:

• For getting better job opportunities
• To develop technological compliance
• To secure the current position and ensure promotion
• For gaining advanced study

The RTO also requires essential details along with six months experience along with five years’ certification from the accredited university of Australia. After getting confirmation from the RTO, it will require skills of the migrants. However, the following qualities need to have in the evidence:

• Validity:

The RTO assessor checks the validity of the module to grow the competency level of the students.

• Sufficiency:

In order to meet student’s competency, both the quality and quantity are checked.

• Authenticity:

The authenticity or the self-productivity of the learner is also checked by the RTO assessor.

• Currency:

Finally, for getting approval from the Australian Government or authorities, the period of evidence is checked by the assessor.

After completing all the parts mentioned above, the assessor helps the students to get RPL in Australia.

What can you include and cannot include in the ACS Employment Reference Letter?

As per the ACS skill assessment guidelines, every employment reference letter must include the below information:

• Employment dates:

You should mention the start and end dates of your employment. The dates must be in DD/MM/YY format and in case if the employer is your current employer, then you must mention “To Date”. Make sure to write down the date in which the reference letter is written.

• Your role and responsibilities:

You must state all the duties you performed during your stay at work and main responsibilities provided to you. NB: It is very important that you state the responsibilities as per the nominated occupation, or they should be relevant.

• Working hours:

You should mention the minimum working hours per week. NB: It must be at least 20 hours per week, be it part time or full time.

• Country:

Country of employment must be mentioned. If you have worked multiple countries for one single company, you must state that clearly in the reference letter. Specific dates as well as locations of the same must be there in the employment letter.

• Company letterhead with author signature:

Reference letter should be signed by the employer or any authorized personnel. Name, position and contact details of the person should be mentioned clearly.

• Certification:

The reference letter should be certified and thus must show the validity of the same.

However, there are also few things, which should not be included in the reference letter.

There are few things that you should not include in your reference.

• Generic details, which would not express your duties and responsibilities should be avoided
• Activities that are not relevant to your applied occupation must be discarded
• It is quintessential that you do not include any fake information in the reference letter

What can be possible reasons for ACS RPL Reference Letter Rejection?

Australian Computer Society checks for RPL report and RPL reference letters for assessing skills of the candidates. Work experience here plays a major role in deciding the fate of the approval. ACS validates your experience by cross checking with the reference letter. So, it is evident that the RPL report and reference letter must match. If those don’t match, it will just face a rejection.

However, there are also cases, where applicants get a positive assessment in the RPL project report, but get rejected in case of reference letter. Following are some reasons, for which reference letter gets rejected:

• Unclear dates:

No clear indication of start and end dates will lead to rejection.

• Lack of proper job description:

The duties and responsibilities in the reference letter must match with the requirements of nominated occupation in the ANZSCO. Therefore, 65% duties must match with the same, or else, the letter would be considered as “Not suitable due to lack of information”.

• Plagiarism and fake information:

Your RPL report and reference letter must be 100% original. Any plagiarised scenario, would lead to rejection. Also, your information would be verified by the ACS and hence fake information would lead to straight rejection.