VETASSESS Group B occupation: Sales Representative (Industrial Products)

A bachelor’s degree or higher that is deemed equivalent to the educational level of the Australian Qualifications Framework (AQF) or experience in a related subject is required for this career.

Candidates must meet at least one of the following four requirements:

Extra credentials in a highly applicable topic of study correspond to the following levels:

• AQF Diploma
• AQF Advanced Diploma
• AQF Associate Degree or
• AQF Graduate Diploma

Bachelor’s degree or higher degree includes:

• AQF Master’s Degree or
• AQF Doctoral Degree

Highly relevant paid employment duration (20 hours or more per week)

• A minimum of 1-3 years of highly relevant work experience in the designated occupation is required at an appropriate skill level. This experience should have been obtained five years before the application date for a skills assessment.4 A minimum of 6 years of relevant work experience is required, consisting of five years of relevant work (which may have yet to be finished in the past five years) and at least one year of highly relevant work completed in the five years before application. 

Assume that employment takes place before obtaining the necessary degree of certification. If so, the candidate must have completed at least a year’s highly relevant work with sufficient expertise during the previous five years. The last five pre-qualification years may have occurred throughout the preceding ten years. A positive assessment of the duration of employment and level of qualification is required for the Skills Assessment to be concluded favorably.