Statement of Service

**Unwell Cat** · 02-06-2009, 08:06 PM

Hello All,

I've done a search for statement of service posts (I think that's what there called?) but couldn't find anything. The question is are most ex employess happy to provide these statements as they would appear to be fairly time consuming to produce. Also should I provide the employee with some guidence on what's required or just let them get on with it.

I'm just trying to find out as much information as possible on these statements before I contact my ex employee for them.

Thanks

**Gollywobbler** · 02-06-2009, 09:05 PM

Hello Unwell Cat

Welcome to Poms in Oz.

Please could you be more specific? Are you an Aussie employer looking to help somebody you want to employ to obtain a visa for Oz?

Many thanks

Gill

**Unwell Cat** · 02-06-2009, 09:10 PM

Oops sorry.. I'm English and have started the visa process and have been asked to prepare some statements of service to send to the ASPC.

**Nickynoonoo** · 03-06-2009, 07:47 AM

Originally Posted by Unwell Cat

Oops sorry.. I'm English and have started the visa process and have been asked to prepare some statements of service to send to the ASPC.

Bless Unwell Cat, he is my husband and I think its possibly the first time he has posted on here!

I will try and make it a bit clearer for people to understand.

Our agent has gone over to Perth and whilst he is away he has asked my OH to obtain statements of service in relation to his employment as an IT professional. As you know, they need to be on company letterhead and include a detailed job description, demonstrated levels of competence with any computer languages, hardware and software used and any major projects. It is also important to state specialisations which feature on the WA skills in demand list.

I think OH is after some advice on how you obtain this information from past employers to make sure that the correct information is given. Have some of you prepared the information themselves and then got your employer to print it off and sign it. What if you don't have a very good relationship with your old company?

He was also hoping that someone might have an example of a statement that they had from an employer as an example of what he should be putting together.

Hopefully that makes things a bit clearer and he may get a response from some of you our there.

Thanks guys!

**Danny&Em** · 07-09-2009, 03:34 PM

interested in this also - i have to obtain a Statement of service from my CURRENT employer... looks like the cat will be out of the bag (not the cat from above) didnt want to tell them until 2 months before departing in jun next year.
Info on how to write one / info required within the doc would be great...

**Gollywobbler** · 07-09-2009, 03:41 PM

Hi Nicky

You draft the statements of service - to within an inch of their lives. All that you want the employers to do is to print them onto headed paper, sign and date them, keep a copy and send the originals to you.

Cheers

Gill

**WAITINGGAME** · 07-09-2009, 09:00 PM

Originally Posted by Gollywobbler

Hi Nicky

You draft the statements of service - to within an inch of their lives. All that you want the employers to do is to print them onto headed paper, sign and date them, keep a copy and send the originals to you.

Cheers

Gill

Hi

My other half is a joiner and i had to write out/type out 7 reference of all the companies were he has worked since he left school. Then went round all the companines asked them to read and check, print them on letterhead paper, sign and attached a business card with contact details of the person who signed the reference.

This is very stressful and lots of hard work, having to detailing everything you do in the jobs, product and equipment used and how you went about doing your job.

Each of our references was about 4 pages long...this was as per our agent.

It was thats stressful my fella got shingles thru it all.

Good luck with everything...will be hard but worth it in the long run.

Any questions just ask people will try there hardest to help you on here.

Thanks Lindsey

**mattytrot** · 09-09-2009, 05:08 AM

I agree totally with gollywobbler, when i did my statement of service i printed it out on headed paper and got my line manager to sign it, a note of caution though is to make sure when u are gettin it witnessed make sure the witness signed it in a part of the document that could not be misconstrued as a photocopy of the signed doc. they can be fussy and it can lead to delays