Identifying and retaining key employees is critical to ongoing business success, even more so in these times where border closures and COVID-19 policy responses have led to critical skill supply shortages and increased competition locally and internationally for skilled workers. This becomes more complex when your employee is not Australian and it turns out they need your sponsorship, and an employer sponsored visa to remain working with you in Australia.
If they then can’t meet fundamental visa criteria for grant of a temporary (subclass 482) or permanent (subclass 186) skilled work visa they may be lost to your business: the requirement to hold a bachelor’s degree or trade qualification and at least 2 years post qualification work experience as a couple of examples of these.
Australian employees have been having to employ locally and often train and upskill Australian student visa holders into these key roles where suitably qualified people can’t be found. This is often proving to be a perfect fit where motivated, intelligent, and driven young people who are new to Australia find supportive innovative Australian employers committed to business success.
More and more we are directing these employers to consider and use the Australian training visa pathway (subclass 407). This visa allows the holder to work full time in line with a specifically tailored training plan to suit the business and their training needs, and to develop skills and work experience to meet employer sponsored visa criteria. This gives stability and certainty to the employer in terms of these key roles and human resource and creates a light at the end of the tunnel for the employee looking to develop a career and life in Australia, and often a better future for their family.
So this is an invitation to reach out and ask us how an Australian training visa may work in your business. Give us call for a preliminary chat at no cost to look at whether the training visa is an option or best strategy for you. Then, if we think we can help and you want us to, we can discuss booking a consultation to give full and proper advice.
