• The Applicant is required to have had their social work qualifications assessed by the AASW prior to a Skilled Employment application/ assessment.
• The assessment of an Applicant’s post-qualifying employment as a qualified Social Worker is assessed from the date of lodgement of the application and in this instance, with the AASW.
• The Applicant can provide evidence of a minimum of 3 years of post qualifying social work employment overseas, in employment as a qualified Social Worker.

and / or 

• The applicant has a minimum of 1 year of post qualifying social work employment in Australia, in employment as a qualified Social Worker (with evidence of the employment as on-going for the full period of employment; if there were gaps in service these should be verified with documentation and the reason why a gap in employment existed).
• The date that it is deemed the Applicant is skilled in the nominated occupation is based on evidence of when the applicant successfully met the requirements of their social work qualification and commenced employment in the specific position and that employment is within the last ten (10) years in the nominated occupation.
• To claim points for skilled employment, the experience must be in an applicant’s nominated occupation, or a closely related occupation. Please view the ANZSCO- Australian-NZ-standards-classification-of-occupations for further details related to the occupation of Social Worker.
• Employment must be on a fulltime paid basis however the Department of Home Affairs can consider employment from 20 hours or more each week. Less than 20 hours paid employment as a qualified Social Worker will not meet the criteria. As such, the assessment will be determined based on this definition of fulltime employment.