SkillSelect Is a Major Change in way Australia Selects Migrants. Over the years a dire need was being felt to make migration policy of country responsive and sensitive to needs of various sectors of domestic economy. Numerous measures were taken to give clinical edge to policy clauses. This resulted in frequent additions and incorporations into the immigration laws and regulations. The outcome was somewhat obvious as frequent reviews in policy statutes overloaded immigration rule book with infinite reference guidelines. Carrying such an enormous weight was infact impractical as finalizing and assessing profiles of applicants for visa became a very complex task. An application that was destined to be reverted in short span of time was often found lying under the pile of pending files.
The situation on other side of the counter was similar as the aspiring migrants had impending waiting times. There was an endless wait for them in the offing and that led to several adverse reviews world over. Most of the experts considered Aussie immigration as a closed case.
Back home the situation was not rosy either and various sectors were lacking behind in productivity. There were several areas that critically needed input of properly trained and appropriate manpower to perform especially support sectors that required technical and trade expertise were facing severe consequences on front of productivity and profitability.
Every component ranging from regions and states to employers had to incur huge expenditure to organize overseas recruitment drives. Department Of Immigration and Citizenship official were found helpless as their hands were tied and there was no leverage provided to give relief to any of participating parties i.e. DIAC, regions, employer and migration aspirants etc.
This led to establishment of an initiative which could foray into finding a permanent solution that had flexibility of being modified periodically without putting on excess weight on one hand and could assist in strictly adhering to norms and conventions defined in basic immigration preferences on other. The exercise and intensive brainstorming resulted in establishment in a revolutionary concept that was expected to bring a major change in the way Australia attracted and managed migrant inflow.
The resultant product of close consultations and research led to invention of an interactive platform that would be driven by the needs of the local labor pool and would serve all components of domestic economy. SkillSelect is a major modification which now assists Australia in selecting migrants. This platform has brought through radical changes in the method and procedures of application of laws concerned with identifying and short listing appropriate candidates.
One of the fundamental changes SkillSelect has bought in the way Australia selects migrants is that now none of the components of economy be it states or employers need to explore overseas resources to find appropriate manpower and it can be laid at their disposal though this program.
