Skilled visas require that you are under age 45 at the time of application, have sufficient English language skills to work, a post-secondary education, an occupation that is on Australia's Skilled Occupations List, recent work experience, can pass a skills assessment, a health assessment and a character assessment.
In a paper recently published in Organization Science (with Michelle Rogan as a co-author), we studied a management consulting firm that offers its employees the option to step away from commercial client projects for a few months, and put their well-honed consulting skills to work an NGO or a development agency explicitly prioritizing social impact.
But after leaving the military in 2004, the authorities say, he put his skills to work in a less honorable way: earning a living as a contract killer.
You may want to act, eventually, but if you could put your skills to work as a make-up artist, as a back-up camera man, as a lighting crew member, you'll be that much closer, and you'll be working.
Case study: 'I secured an internship at Google' Media executive Alun Lucas, 37, decided against a specialist MBA as he wanted a broad range of skills to work across a multitude of industry sectors.
While finishing his undergraduate education, he put his near-professional photographic skills to work chronicling a paleoecology project conducted by a University of Maine researcher on the island of Dominica in the Lesser Antilles, with funding from the National Geographic Society.
Lured by the glamour of sports and the possibility of becoming a real-life George Costanza, the character on "Seinfeld" who landed a front-office job with the New York Yankees, or prompted by a midcareer itch to put existing skills to work in a new field, students young and older are flocking to sports management programs.
He will also have to do a training course in Australia to prove he has the skills to work as a plumber.
Will you need more political, judicial or security sector skills to work within a broader context of diplomacy and security?
The rest of the year this die-hard Democrat puts those same skills to work as a political king.
She loves the work and has the skills to work as a paramedic for some local government or health care agency.
