Skill Level: 3 | Assessing Authority: VETASSESS (Group: D)
Job description
Provides advice to clients and acts on their behalf in relation to the sale and purchase of rural property, livestock, crops and agricultural products and services. Registration or licensing may be required.
Employment
Highly relevant tasks include, but are not limited to:
- Interviewing clients to identify their insurance needs
- Explaining to clients the details of insurance and conditions, risk coverage, premiums and benefits
- Assisting clients to determine the type and level of coverage required
- Calculating premiums and establishing method of payment
- Reviewing clients’ circumstances to ensure that the level and coverage of insurance are still appropriate
- Settling and monitoring insurance claims to ensure that both client and insurer are satisfied with the outcome
- Recording information about clients and their policies
- Identifying and drawing up lists of potential clients from a variety of sources and contacting them to arrange interviews
- Keeping up-to-date with changes in the insurance industry and informing clients of new developments.
Qualification
AQF Diploma or higher qualification. This includes qualifications assessed at AQF Advanced Diploma, Associate Degree, Bachelor, Master and Doctoral level.
Highly relevant major fields of study include:
- Insurance, Business, Commerce and Management
Vetassess Skills Assessment Pathways
VETASSESS provides four pathways for skills assessment; select the one that aligns best with your background. To obtain a positive outcome in your skills assessment, it is essential to meet the requirements for both qualifications and employment.
Pathway 1
- Qualification(s) assessed at least AQF Certificate IV level with a highly relevant field of study and
- at least one (1) year of post qualification highly relevant employment at an appropriate skill level in the last five years;
Pathway 2
- Qualification(s) assessed at least AQF Certificate IV level without highly relevant field of study and
- at least two (2) year of post-qualification highly relevant employment at an appropriate skill level in the last five years;
Pathway 3
- Qualification(s) assessed at least AQF Certificate III level with a highly relevant field of study and
- at least three (3) year of post qualification highly relevant employment at an appropriate skill level in the last five years;
Pathway 4
- if all of your employment is before your qualification assessed at the AQF Certificate III or Certificate IV level, and
- three (3) years of highly relevant employment in addition to at least one (1) year of highly relevant employment at an appropriate skill level in the last five years.
Processing Time
The full skills assessment process for this occupation will take between 8 and 10 weeks from the date you submit and pay for the application to VETASSESS. The time it takes to finish depends on how quickly VETASSESS get all of the required documents and any other information from you. Making sure you've given all the necessary documents in the right format will help cut down on the time it takes to process.
What will I get after the assessment?
When your application for a skills assessment is done, the assessing authority will send you an email with a soft copy of the skills assessment outcome letter.
The letter should contain the required skill level outcome, whether your qualification is assessed as comparable to the education level of an Australian Qualifications Framework (AQF) or not. Furthermore, it outlines the employment period that you have claimed and whether the evidence that you provided is met or not. If you meet both the qualifications and employment criteria for the skill assessment, you will get a positive result. If you don't, you will get an unsuccessful result.
Application Fees
The following table provides an outline of the fees that are charged by VETASSESS in accordance with it for the purpose of their service of full skill assessments for professional occupations.
| Application Fees – Full Skills Assessment | |
| Applicant is a resident of Australia for tax purposes* (fee includes GST) | AUD $1,205.60 |
| Applicant is NOT a resident of Australia for tax purposes*(fee excludes GST) | AUD $1,096.00 |
