Working in New South Wales: A Guide for Migrants

Working in New South Wales: A Guide for Migrants has been prepared with the aim to provide migrants who are looking for work in NSW with up-to-date and concise information relating to working in New South Wales. Throughout the Guide, contact details and websites are given of organisations and services where more detailed information can be found. The Guide can be useful to migrants who want to know how to go about looking and applying for work; what courses and services can be of help to them; what is required to work in particular occupations; how to get overseas skills, qualifications and experience accepted; and what employees' rights and responsibilities are. The Guide can also be a useful source of information for people assisting or employing migrants.


The Guide provides general information about:

• Working in New South Wales: click on the link to read about the labour market and employees' rights and responsibilities
  
  
• Assessment and Recognition: click on the link to find out about getting overseas experience and qualifications accepted
  
  
• Translation of Documents: click on the link to find out about having (work-related) documents translated into English
  
  
• Looking for Work: click on the link to read about where to look for work, how to apply for work, and where to get help
  
  
• Useful Information and Contacts: click on this link to find out about providers of work-related advice, services, training and courses (including English courses)

The Guide also gives specific information for over 300 occupations about what is needed to work in the occupation and where to get overseas qualifications and experience assessed for that occupation. For each occupation the following information is provided:

• the necessary qualifications/skills and other requirements to carry out that occupation
  
  
• the recognition procedures (information about the steps you need to take to be able to work in that occupation)
  
  
• contact details of the assessing authorities, registration authorities and licensing authorities
  
  
• contact details of any professional associations or unions
  
  
• other information that is relevant to that occupation

To find this job-specific information you can use the Search Box (at the top right on every page) and search for an occupation. Or you can visit the Occupations section and then click on a letter at the top to find all the occupations listed under that letter. If you would like a complete list of all the types of occupations discussed in the Guide, go to the Index of Occupations and Trade Classifications

Click on the Table of contents for an overview of all the topics discussed in this Guide.

UPDATING THE GUIDE

This is the first (online) edition of Working in New South Wales: A Guide for Migrants. This Guide combines information from the former 'Using Overseas Skills - A New South Wales Guide' and 'A Handbook for Migrants Looking for Work' published by the Overseas Skills Unit of the NSW Adult Migrant English Service, Department of Education and Training. The Guide is currently owned and updated by the Ethnic Communities Council (ECC) of NSW.

We would appreciate your help with updating this Guide. Please let us know if you find any errors or out-of-date information in the Guide (general feedback is also welcome!) by calling (02) 9319 0288

reviewed Aug 2006