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Due to popular demand, I am compiling a thread on two subjects.
Claiming post-assessment experience:
Basically, you can claim post-assessment experience as long as you continue on the same job. There were multiple precedences for this, and also that's the logical thing.... in most of the cases.
There is an exception though. There is a particular scenario I can think of when you should be careful before claiming post-assessment experience:
Bottom line, you always have to follow the ACS deduction rule on the day you claim your point.
What does "experience after June 2012" means in ACS result:
Want to play safe? Just claim from 1 July 2012.
However, do you miss the next slab of points for a few days if you claim it from 1 July 2012? What you are entitled to do is,
Hope the above make sense.
Cheers.
Claiming post-assessment experience:
Basically, you can claim post-assessment experience as long as you continue on the same job. There were multiple precedences for this, and also that's the logical thing.... in most of the cases.
There is an exception though. There is a particular scenario I can think of when you should be careful before claiming post-assessment experience:
- Let say
- you submitted for assessment on 1 July 2018.
- you have relevant experience from 1 July 2007 with a 6 months' gap from 1 Jul 2009-31 Dec 2009.
- you have an ICT-major Bachelor.
- So ACS will deduct 2 years from your last 10 years experience. Hence, your experience from 1 January 2011 will be deemed appropriate for point claim.
- Not, ACS deducts 2 years from last 10 years' experience OR 4 years from your total experience, whichever comes to your favor.
- Therefore, you have 7.5 years of relevant experience for claiming points.
- Now, let say you decided to wait 6 more months to make it 8 months of relevant experience to claim 15 points, i.e. you plan to submit your EOI on 1 January 2019. Seems all set, right? Not quite!
- Think from ACS's perspective. If ACS to assess you on 1 January 2019, they would have still deducted 2 years from past 10 years (i.e. from 1 January 2009 - 1 January 2019) which would result in skill met date on 1 July 2011 (because you had a 6 months gap). So, from 1 July 2011 to 1 January 2019, you still would have 7.5 months of relevant experience.
Bottom line, you always have to follow the ACS deduction rule on the day you claim your point.
What does "experience after June 2012" means in ACS result:
Want to play safe? Just claim from 1 July 2012.
However, do you miss the next slab of points for a few days if you claim it from 1 July 2012? What you are entitled to do is,
- Check how many years ACS deducted from your experience
- Get the starting date of your employment and get the exact date after deduction.
- For example, let say ACS deducted 2 years, and your employment started on 20th June 2010. In that case, you should be fine claiming points from 20th June 2012, though ACS will mention "after June 2012" in the assessment letter (ACS never mentions date).
Hope the above make sense.
Cheers.