Hot Welder

Hi, sorry to butt in but I was wondering if you could offer a little advice please, relevant to the Vetassess application.

 

I am a Metal Fabricator and therefore lodging the form as such, I have been employed by the same firm for the past 4 years, prior to that, I worked in Oz and NZ on a working holiday Visa for which I have no evidence and prior to that, the companies I worked for in the UK have closed. I have been in the trade for 15 years. I have done the 4 year apprenticeship and am able to supply all the certification for this and have all the syllabus info etc. I have a detailed reference and statement from my current employer etc, all in all the evidence I can supply is pretty detailed. My concern is that I do only have info for my current employer and the apprenticeship that I did all those years ago, with nothing in between. Do you think this will reflect badly on my application? (I have already submitted online the Vetassess application and am now compliling all the evidence to send to them).

 

Any help and advice is greatly appreciated.

 

Many thanks, Allan

Do you need points for work experience?

Hello hot welder...

 

Can you please give some points to review on the assessment for metal fabricator?? Because that is my occupation I applied for and after my IELTS I'll go to this assessment..

 

Please can you give me some information? Are they going to assess me in actual? I mean they are going to test me in actual fit-up and welding?

I didn't do any welding at all on the metal fabricator assessment, was almost all sheet metal based. If you are a welder only, would the welder (first class) assessment be more suitable for you?

Thanks for the reply.

 

Any further info of what sort of questions they ask you ???

Yes I understand your point about the 2 trades, but I don't think they will even fill the smaller quota in this field.

Of course the larger intake in the fabs sector could lower the points tally to get called up after e.o.i, I will look at

it.

I had to make a paper tray from sheet steel. Some theory, first and third angle drawings, health and safety, demonstrate some measuring and marking out. Was asked questions as you worked to demonstrate understanding. No welding, but option to do some if you wanted. Started about 8:15am, first hour brief, health and safety etc. (optional) Break for lunch, (up to an hour) tidy up and completed for about 5pm.

The occupation ceilings look very different depending on which anzsco code you get assessed under.

3222 - sheetmetal trades workers shows 600

3223 - structural steel and welding trades workers (includes metal fabricator) shows 4860

If you could pass the metal fabricator one, given the occupation ceiling being much higher, is that worth a consideration? Obviously you need the right qualifications for the work you want to do when you get over there, but maybe a little research into the metal fabricator to see how closely it matches up could be worthwhile?

My OH has just done the metal fabricator assessment. He said it was all sheet metalwork in the assessment, didn't do any welding at all.

Is it crucial you do the sheet metal trades worker assessment? Have you checked the occupation ceilings for both? Which visa are you going for?