Introduction
An employment reference letter is an integral part of an RPL ACS skill assessment report. It is a medium that can help you show your professional journey with details. The better your professional life description is, the more convenient it will be for ACS to evaluate your competency. In short, your employment reference letter can put your whole professional life before the assessing authority with every detail necessary. So, it deserves a considerable amount of attention from your side for a positive ACS Australia Assessment application. It helps the authority to assess you properly and help you for writing your professional life in perfect and systematic order. It benefits both sides.
However, many candidates don’t give the employment reference letter the attention it deserves, which comes up as an obstacle for their immigration to Australia and working there as an ICT professional.
After evaluating hundreds of ACS RPL reports on our own, we have found some mistakes. These mistakes can be avoided if you take some precautions. Therefore, we have written this article intending to familiarize you with the key points when writing an employment reference letter for the RPL ACS skill assessment. So, read them one by one for a clear understanding.
1. Write Dates in DD/MM/YY Format
There is a standard writing date format in the employment reference letter. It is DD/MM/YY, which means data first, month in the middle, and year in the last. So, don’t forget this point.
You must show your work experience mentioning your starting and end date in this format. However, in case of being currently employed, you are advised to write ‘To date’. It will make clear that the date of writing a reference letter is the maximum date of the work experience.
2. Mention the Tasks You Were Assigned
It’s wise to mention as many employment tasks as possible in your employment reference letter to hit the bull’s eye and impress the ACS authority. However, you must keep in mind that the task you choose has to be relevant to the ANZSCO occupation list job you chose. It must show your competency for the position you have selected.
It is a must that 65% of your job description of the assigned employment task in your letter has to be relevant to the chosen job role. So, you must provide a detailed description of them for assessment. If you show carelessness or mistakes here, then you will prepare an improper RPL report.
The below example will make it clear: if you have experience of working as a specialist in ICT Security 262112, then you must have the responsibilities given below that are the most important ones out of others:
- You have to maintain and design database architecture, data structures, dictionaries, tables, and naming conventions to make sure that all data master files are accurate and complete.
- You need to perform the operational establishment and preventive maintenance of backups, recovery procedures and enforce integrity and security controls.
- You must implement and administer database documentation, policies, guidelines, and procedures.
- You have to check database systems and upgrades like debugging, reproduction, logging, tracking, and addressing every found problem, as per the allowed quality testing scripts, processes, and procedures.
- You must take the charge of the processes, operational management, and procedures related to system security and disaster recovery planning.
- You must work with security vendors, service providers, suppliers, and external resources; analyze, recommend, install, and main software security apps; and monitor contractual obligations, performance delivery, and service level agreements.
- You have to troubleshoot and offer service support in diagnosing, solving, and repairing server-related software and hardware malfunctions, covering communication infrastructure and workstations.
3. Avoid Showing Concurrent Employment
Many candidates make the mistake of showing their work experience that is done along with the qualification. In such a case, your employment experience will not be accepted by the ANZSCO authority, and they will not deem your employment as ‘Skilled employment’. This experience will be considered as ‘Concurrent employment’ in your RPL ACS skill assessment.
4. Write the Specified Information
Your skills and performance can’t be clearly described unless you include specified information in every reference. This information has to be approved by your employer. Therefore, proper and detailed information about your skills and performance level in your professional field is a must. If you are unable to provide so, then your RPL Report will be considered below the expected quality, which will lead to rejection.
5. Complete Your Employment Reference Letter with Signatures
Your employment reference letter is invalid unless it is signed by your employer. So, you must get it signed to prove the genuineness of your RPL report. It means the employment authority or employer approves the information laid down in the report to be real. We think so far, you must have understood the value of signature in such official reports or documents.
You should read the report properly before you get it signed by the authority to make sure that your name, contact details, reference and designation, and the position of the signing authority are mentioned in your report.
6. Get it Certified
It is a must for the candidate to get their employment reference letter certified for its value and authenticity. Your letter must be certified by an authorized notary.
Without certification, your RPL report will be taken as an improper one, which will result in rejection. It is one of the most important points to be taken into account because the certified copy of your employment reference letter will be taken as the assessment of your ACS skill.
7. Mention your Genuine Work Experience
Don’t try to impress or win the heart of the authority by fraudulent means. Remember that the RPL ACS skill evaluation authority has enough experience to know the difference between a genuine employment reference letter and a fake one, which will help them find your fraud.
Although you can find innumerable online reference materials, don’t try to copy someone else’s work experience and relevant attributes. Nothing is much better than a genuine report before the authority in which you mention your true professional skills and work performance level along with the level of experience mentioned in the letter.
8. Highlight your Plus Points
You need to show your skills and performances paying more attention to your plus points. Remember it doesn’t matter how qualified an ICT engineer you are, you have to show your competency using an employment reference letter. In the process of assessment, your strong points can work wonders. Efficiency and expertise in your work are the best weapons to win this war, so these two positive qualities must be shown.
9. Mention Work Hours and Job Location
Whether you have done a full-time job or a part-time one, you must mention your working hours in a week in every job record. The amount of time you invested is a very important factor for the ACS authority to evaluate your capability and potential for the expected position.
Apart from that, you should also mention the country where you worked in. Every company you worked in must be mentioned with its location. It will help the authority to assess your capability by comparing the country’s atmosphere to the Australian ICT field working atmosphere. It will also help you know whether you can adjust to the Australian atmosphere or not by having a proper RPL ACS skill assessment.
Moreover, it is a must for you to submit an organization letterhead by an official with authority. It has to be acceptable ad verifiable for digital signatures.
10. Take ACS RPL Writing Expert Help
Before you write such a critical report, crush your ego. It doesn’t matter how many official reports you have written or submitted; ACS RPL report writing is completely different from the ones you have dealt with. Your employment reference letter has to be systematically ordered and written. Unless you have experience in doing so, you’d better take ACS RPL writing specialist help.
The experts are accustomed to the pressure coming from writing this report and work for the best result with perfection and a positive attitude. They can clearly show your work experience in a balanced way that will sound natural to the authority. The expert also checks, proofread, and edits the report if finding it without quality. Their knowledge, training, familiarity with the latest updates in that field, and professional skills help them create a flawless ACS RPL report with an excellent employment reference letter.
If you are interested in knowing more about the RPL ACS skill assessment, then contact us without any hesitation.
