Interpreter Career and Immigration options for Australia

Profile Title: Interpreter Career and Immigration options for Australia

Alternative Title:Not Defined

ANZSCO Code: 272412 | Unit Code: 2724

Skill Level: Level 1 | Work Experience: 5 Years

Assessing Bodies: National Accreditation Authority for Translators and Interpreters (NAATI)

Skill Occupation List (SOL): STSOL

Specialization: Not Defined

Profile Description: Transfers a spoken or signed language into another spoken or signed language, usually within a limited time frame in the presence of the participants requiring the translation.

Job Duties:

• assembling historical data by consulting sources of information such as historical indexes and catalogues, archives, court records, diaries, newspaper files and other materials
• organising, authenticating, evaluating and interpreting historical, political, sociological, anthropological and linguistic data
• undertaking historical and cultural research into human activity, and preparing and presenting research findings
• providing simultaneous and consecutive verbal or signed renditions of speeches into another language
• rendering the meaning and feeling of what is said and signed into another language in the appropriate register and style in a range of settings such as courts, hospitals, schools, workplaces and conferences
• studying original texts and transcripts of recorded spoken material to comprehend subject matter and translating them into another language
• rendering the meaning and feeling of written material, such as literary, legal, technical and scientific texts, into another language in the appropriate register and style, so that it will read as an original piece rather than as a translation

Skill Level Description: In Australia and New Zealand: Most occupations in this unit group have a level of skill commensurate with a Bachelor Degree or higher qualification (ANZSCO Skill Level 1).

Available Visa Options (As on February 2024):

• 190 - Skilled Nominated (subclass 190)
• 407 - Training visa (subclass 407)
• 489 - Skilled Regional (Provisional) visa (subclass 489) - State or Territory nominated
• 482 - Temporary Skill Shortage visa (subclass 482) - Short Term Stream
• 187 - Regional Sponsor Migration Scheme (subclass 187)
• 494 - Skilled Employer Sponsored Regional (provisional) (subclass 494) - Employer sponsored stream
• 491 - Skilled Work Regional (provisional) visa (subclass 491) State or Territory nominated

Registration or Licensing: Not Required

Industries: Social Professionals are mainly employed in: Professional, Scientific and Technical Services; Public Administration and Safety; and Education and Training

Education Profile: The most common level of educational attainment for Social Professionals is Bachelor degree (42.5 per cent).

Job Opening: Over the five years to November 2019, the number of job openings for Social Professionals is expected to be below average (between 5,001 and 10,000). Job openings count both employment growth and turnover (defined as workers leaving their occupation for other employment or leaving the workforce).

Age Group: The main age group is 25-34 years (35.0 per cent) and the median age is 41 years (compared to 40 years for all occupations).

Gender: The female share of Social Professionals is 64.0 per cent and 35.0 per cent of Social Professionals work full time. Average weekly hours for full time workers are 35.4 (compared to 40.2 for all occupations).

Earning: In August 2014 (latest available data) weekly earnings full-time before tax (and not including employer superannuation) were $1,289 (compared to earnings for all occupations of $1,200).

Employment: Employment for this occupation fell markedly (in percentage terms) in the past five years, remained relatively steady in the long-term (ten years). Looking forward, employment for Social Professionals to November 2020 is expected to grow moderately.