Migrant Skills Assessment Portal – FREE – Ethnic Council of Shepparton and District

The Overseas Qualifications Unit (OQU) offers free and confidential assessment services to have your qualifications recognised in Australia and help you secure work.

You must be living in Victoria to be eligible for the assessments. Other Australian states and territories also have Overseas Qualifications Units. It’s important you contact the Overseas Qualifications Unit in the state or territory you live in.

The Overseas Qualifications Unit also helps employers, educational institutions and other organisations interpret overseas education and qualifications for their potential employees and students.

The Overseas Qualifications Unit (OQU) assesses qualifications to help you secure work in Victoria. Lanugage forums in Arabic, Vietnamese, Farsi and more are available.

To be eligible for assessment you must:

be living in Victoria
have work rights in Australia.

The Overseas Qualifications Unit does not assess:

Australian degrees or qualifications
overseas short courses (less than one-year full-time study), single-subject certificates or diplomas
overseas licenses, permits or work experience documents
overseas apprenticeships or trade qualifications.

If you are not eligible for Overseas Qualification Unit services and want to apply for an assessment of your educational level, please contact the Australian Government’s Department of Education, Skills and Employmentexternal link for educational assessments of higher education, post-secondary or technical and vocational qualifications. These assessments establish the Australian-equivalent educational level for overseas qualifications within the Australian Qualifications Frameworkexternal link.

Please note: The Australian Government’s Department of Education, Skills and Employment charges an application fee for their service.

Contact us
Phone: 1300 492 606
Email: oqu@liveinmelbourne.vic.gov.auexternal link

What are assessments used for?

Our overseas qualifications assessments can be used for general employment purposes only – if your job doesn’t require registration, licensing, professional membership or other industry requirements.

Assessments are used as qualifications evidence for:

potential employers, human resource departments and recruitment agents
resumes/curriculum vitae (e.g. stating that your qualification has been assessed by the Victorian Government’s Overseas Qualifications Unit and include the Australian-equivalent result)
professional associations and educational institutions including professional bodies or admitting institutions.

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	The Ethnic Council of Shepparton and District acknowledges the Yorta Yorta People of the land which comprises the Goulburn Valley. We pay respect to tribal Elders, past, present and emerging and we celebrate their continuing culture and acknowledge the memory of their ancestors.
	The Ethnic Council of Shepparton and District is a peak body whose mission is to promote and represent the social, cultural and economic well-being of ethnic communities in the Goulburn Valley Region through the provision of quality and innovative settlement, refugee support, community development, and information and advocacy services.