The Vetbuttess buttessment is an area I find rather interesting so here is my take.
Firstly, you can have work experience in a different SOL occupation to the nominate occupation, but you need to prove you are working at a send level, mainly I think via employer references.
But the interesting bit is this.
As you know, with Vetbuttess the qualification does not need to be related to the nominated occupation, that's a pretty well known and publicised fact.
so......here's a scenario.
A person works in say Human Resources of some kind. They have a degree in say History, and get a positive Vetbuttess buttessment against an HR occupation, in this fictional case, it's the same as their recent work experience. sounds good.
But, looking at it logically, the Vetbuttess buttessment in no way can possible buttist DIMIA in evaluating their recent work experience, how could it, being a historian has no correlation with ones ability to work in HR. So the Vetbuttess process only indicates that someone is educated to a certain level, the occupations are purely notional. The only time it could indicate an individuals skill in their recent work experience is if they actually had a qualification like say an HR related business degree and that was their nominated occupation, and also where they were claming 'recent work experience', certainly not a requirement of the process.
So that indicates that whether you have a positive buttessment from Vetbuttess it in no way indicates anything to DIMIA regarding work experience. So the skills buttessment is 'stand alone' as is the 'recent work experience' criteria. You need both but they are not inextricably linked, certainly via the Vetbuttess route anyway.
So recent experience in a different occupation to your nominated one is not so much more difficult (with some exceptions). Because skills buttessment and recent experience do not go hand in hand. IMHO.
Any opinions??
-- Steve Reed
