Your phd experience won't be used for claiming any experience points. You can try to use your master for qualifying degree but your employment letter for phd degree will reveal you were a student then because you have to claim your past qualifications such as your phd degree to immigration officer, so there was no way you could claim the working experience. But I think other countries such as Canada do accept phd research experience as oversea working experience.

 

Hey thanks for reply. I guess if the Phd is not going to be considered as an experience, it wouldn't really matter if I apply as an agricultural scientist or Life scientist. As only my australian experience will be considered for points.
Thanks

 

Hello

I am planning to apply for skill assessment for Agricultural scientist - 234112. there are two things I am not so sure about, as the VETASSESS has changed their rules regarding considering Phd as work experience, I am not sure if my Phd would be considered as work experience or not..



I will really appreciate if anyone who has recently got a skill assessment or has more information on this can help.

Here is my education and employment details

Bsc (2004-2007)- Biotechnology, chemistry and genetics

Ms (2008-2009) - Bioscience( human genetics)

Phd ( 2009- 2014) - biology ( plant molecular biology ) - Full time research -

scholarship covering tuition fee and maintenance allowance. My support letter from my PhD supervisor mentions these details and also states that i had a work contract of 35 hr a week. I did not pay tax on this income, as a proof of employment i can attach my bank statement where I am paid this amount monthly by the university.I also did paid teaching during this time.

employment

postdoc outside australia - improving plant response to plant pathogens (2 march 2015 - 31st dec 2017)

post doc in australia - On a company sponsored fellowship to study fertiliser use efficiency in crop plants and developing methods to improve.



My questions are -

1)which of my degree will be considered as the qualifying degree for Agricultural scientist.

2) if my BSc or Ms is considered as qualifying degree, would my PhD count towards Work experience?

3) Would vetassess provide answers to these questions in the Skill assessment support service in the 30 min consultation call that costs $220 AUD.



The other option I have is to apply as life scientist.





I will really appreciate any thought and experiences people can share

You can inbox me your email and your queries.
PhD queries are bit tricky.
Regards
Jash

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Hi Ritu & everyone,

I am in the same boat as you ritu. What has been your experience so far ?

As far as I am aware VETASSES has stopped recognising PhD as work experience. So count that out. Your post doc in Australia will definitely count towards post study work experience. How long was that for ?

I that case would you need to get your BSc, MS assessed ? Probably you could get PhD as your qualifying degree + work experience in Australia. What do you think about that ?

You could go for life science in that case.

Happy to hear your's and anyone else comments.

Thanks.

 

I think you should try for the GTI visa. It's aimed towards Ph.D.s. Check the GTI thread on the forum

 

Hello all,
Jsut a quick update on this.
I cleared my skill assessment, they considered by PhD as qualifying degree for Agricultural scientist. SO i lost one year of my work experience. so got 1 y 10 month of work experience outside Australia and one year in australia. I then applied for Victoria sponsorship, got invited and got the PR.
Timeline
Skill assessment application - 03 july 2019
Skill assessment received - 16 oct 2019
VIctoria sponsorship application - 16 oct 2019
PTE test - 10 dec 2019
190 invite received - 24 jan 2020
submitted documents and paid for Visa fee - 24 march 2020
visa received - 19. may 2020

thanks everyone for their thoughts and help

 

Hello all,
Jsut a quick update on this.
I cleared my skill assessment, they considered by PhD as qualifying degree for Agricultural scientist. SO i lost one year of my work experience. so got 1 y 10 month of work experience outside Australia and one year in australia. I then applied for Victoria sponsorship, got invited and got the PR.
Timeline
Skill assessment application - 03 july 2019
Skill assessment received - 16 oct 2019
VIctoria sponsorship application - 16 oct 2019
PTE test - 10 dec 2019
190 invite received - 24 jan 2020
submitted documents and paid for Visa fee - 24 march 2020
visa received - 19. may 2020

thanks everyone for their thoughts and help

I'm glad you managed to deal with everything. I am writing here to find out what results you have achieved in these 11 months. Is there anything to share?
Thanks in advance for the answer!