Below is a recent posting from Akbar Jindani on the MIA Forum
At least 10-12 of Victorian MIA members were in Canberra yesterday regarding ANZCO presentation.
Some of the highlights are as follows:
1. DIAC is planning to implement using ANZSCO from March 2010.
2. Based on that there would obviously be a new SOL/ENS and 457 lists.
3. Migration Agent / Migration Consultant (NZ) would be one of the occupation in ANZSCO at Skill Level 1.
4. ANZSCO will not have Duties defined for each occupation as currently in ASCO but high level job summary at Group level. This means DIAC is concerned about not having a Gospel to work from and they are working on this issue.
5. There would be transition periods while all existing application will continue to be assessed under ASCO.
6. I feel that there should be new Skill Assessment guidelines from various skill assessment bodies based on new ANZSCO. I also felt that there is not much co-ordination happening so far on it for March 2010 implementation.
7. Version 2, of the ANZSCO will be available from ABS site towards the end of June 2009 for download.
Below is a link to the First Edition of the ANZSCO Dictionary
It is pleasing to see that the occupation of Migration Agent is included in the Dictionary but the writer feels that is unlikely that DIAC will include the occupation on the Critical Skills List or even the Skilled Occupations List.
The specialisations in this category are Telephone Sex Worker and Dominatrix and another part of the Dictionary includes helpful guidance on the concept of specialisation which makes interesting reading in respect of these specialist occupations.
Skill specialisation is defined as a function of:
• field of knowledge required
• tools and equipment used
• materials worked on, and
• goods or services produced or provided.
Once again the writer feels that it unlikely that these occupations will be placed on the Critical Skills List or even the Skilled Occupations list .