The Australian government created a new skilled occupations list (SOL) that will come into effect on 1 July 2010. Luckily for me I am still on the list. They reduced the occupations from something like 400 to just 181, or something in that line. So basically a more than 50% reduction in occupations.
I am only concerned with the IT related occupations. On the old SOL the following occupations were catered for:
- Computing Professionals (Catch all)
- Applications and Analyst Programmer
- Computer Systems Auditor
- Software Designer
- Systems Manager
- Systems Programmer
The new list only lists the following IT related occupations:
- Systems Analyst
- Analyst Programmer
- Developer Programmer
- Software Engineer
So they basically removed the Computing Professionals option. Many IT occupations came through on that catch all description, anything from a database administrator to a network administrator could be seen as a Computing Professional. It would seem the Australian government plugged that hole now. Basically if you want to go to Australia as an IT specialist your occupation must be closely related to actual programming or building of systems from scratch it seems.
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