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Skilled migrants could provide your business with a competitive edge in domestic and global markets through:
- Language skills and/or cultural knowledge and understanding
- Business networks and knowledge of business practices and protocols in overseas markets
- Low cost intelligence about overseas markets, including intimate knowledge of consumer tastes and preferences
- Transfer of unique oveseas skills, ideas and technologies
Your business can use such resources to improve performance and reap the benefits through boosting productivity and innovation in the workplace, developing domestic niche markets and widening customer reach and entering new and/or increasing market share in overseas markets.
The Commonwealth Government’s Skill Matching Database helps match skilled people who have applied to migrate with skilled vacancies or skill shortages in Australia.
The Database contains the educational, employment and work details of skilled migrants and includes many who are interested in living and working in regional Australia.
The database is used by employers for employer sponsored migration categories as well as by State and Territory governments.
For more information on the database, visit www.immi.gov.au/skills/index.htm
Once you have identified a skilled migrant to employ you have a number of options in order to directly sponsor an overseas employee:
Temporary residence
Temporary Business Entry (Long Stay) visa allows sponsored employees an initial stay of up to four years, with the opportunity to extend. This is the most commonly used program for employers to sponsor overseas workers to work in Australia on a temporary basis.
During this initial stay, employers can also sponsor skilled migrants for permanent residency. Specific employment arrangements exist for regional employers. With this visa you can employ overseas workers for a period of between three (3) months and four (4) years.
Permanent Residence
Employer Nomination Scheme (ENS)
is available to all employers. This visa offers permanent residency to migrants who are highly skilled. For more information check out the DIAC's Employer Nomination Scheme.
For this visa, you will need:
- an Australian employer
- a highly skilled employee
- an eligible occupation.
An eligible position must meet the following requirements:
- be full-time, ongoing and available for at least 3 years
- provide working conditions that are no less favourable than provided for under the relevant Australian legislation and awards
- be a highly skilled occupation that is on the Employer Nomination Scheme Occupation List (ENSOL).
Regional Sponsored Migration Scheme (RSMS)
This visa offers permanent residency to skilled migrants sponsored by regional employers. Employers do not pay a fee and a two -ear employer/employee contract is required.
Qualifications are required, but not work experience and a priority processing is in place.
A Regional Sponsored Migration Scheme needs:
- an Australian employer
- an overseas employee
- an eligible position.
Australian employers in regional or low population growth areas of Australia can participate in this scheme. All areas of Australia are eligible except Brisbane, the Gold Coast, Sydney, Newcastle, Wollongong, Melbourne and Perth. The process for obtaining a visa under the Regional Sponsored Migration Scheme is summarised below.
Who |
Responsibility |
Employer |
nominates the position(s) that they wish to fill
arranges certification by the Regional Certifying Body
recruits the overseas worker(s) to fill the nominated positions
prepares a submission outlining exceptional circumstances (if this is needed). |
Regional Certifying Bodies (RCB) |
assists employers to fill vacancies in regional Australia
assesses whether the position is genuinely vacant and unable to be filled by an Australian employee. |
Employee |
accepts the offer of employment from the nominating employer
applies for a visa
meets the conditions on their visa (once approved). |
Source: The Department of Immigration and Citizenship http://www.immi.gov.au/index.htm.
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