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Immigration Forum / Australia and NZ / December 2007Work Experience as Research Assistant
Hello everybody, I gather a lot of people here have their master's/Ph.D.'s and woul like to have their R.A. work counted as work experience. I am in th same situation, so if anybody has done it, please help me out. I had a R.A. during my master's in the U.S. for two years, working (nominally 20 hours per week. Since my work was in image processing in th department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, should I pu "Electronics Engineering" in "occupation" field in the onlin application? In general, it should be the same for all R.A.'s. If yo worked in Chemical Engineering Department, you'd put Chemica Engineering, for example. I have a full-time "real" job now, by the way. But I'd like to ge points for three years work experience.. -- noom65 > I gather a lot of people here have their master's/Ph.D.'s and would > like to have their R.A. work counted as work experience. Hi, This will depend on the duties that you carried out during your RA days. It'll depend on whether you meet the DIAC criteria to be considered as being in a skilled occupation. Regards, Peter Registered Migration Agent, Specialist in ACS/RPL/IT cases http://ptlabs.com.au/ Well, I think R.A. duties, at least for engineering/comp sci grads, are pretty much the same in U.S. universities. I don't know how Australian immigration can assess it, really, except from the recommendation letter. In my case, the letter that I obtained from my advisor says that I did things like reading research papers, testing the techniques described, coding algorithms for images, validating them on real-life data, etc. The only "unusual" aspect, in my case, might be that the project was funded by an external company, rather than directly by my department. I did read the occupational duties in SOL, but they're so broad that anything can fit in them, IMHO. Since you have more experience in this than I do, what does Immigration look for in those R.A. letters? Another (minor) issue is this: I have the original letter my advisor wrote for me, which I can scan for my electronic application. However, he's changed to a different university since then, so the phone number mentioned in the letter is no longer his. What can I do about this? Should I attach some kind of explanatory note with his updated contact information?  Signaturenoom651 |
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