CDR For Engineering Technologist

Candidates who seek to continue their professional life or reside in Australia permanently need to submit a CDR for skills assessment to Engineers Australia (EA). They have to create a competency demonstration report (CDR) under engineering technologist occupation category demonstrating the relevant knowledge, aptitude, and experience they have gained. 

Creating the assessment report is mandatory for them to undergo the migration skills assessment (MSA). This skills assessment is held by the assessor (Engineers Australia). Only those candidates get Australian immigration approval who can create a required and impactful competency assessment report for Engineers Australia. 

What Is CDR For Engineering Technologists?

Engineering Technologist CDR Report is a customized hand-written and lengthy document that comprises three core elements. Engineering technologists also need to attach their personal documentation like a passport-style photo, prime ID, CV, and English language test results as well as educational documentation like academic certificates and transcripts. 

The three elements must be produced as follows:-

Three Career Episodes 

• Applicants must provide three career episodes to display their engineering qualifications and work experience in the relevant field. 
• They must frame all career episodes in a proper format containing an introduction, background, personal engineering activity, and a summary.
•  Each career episode should focus on a different period or aspect of their engineering activity. Also, 
• each one should focus on how they applied their engineering skills and knowledge as an Engineering Technologist. 
• Each episode must explain what the applicant did and how they did that emphasising their personal role in an episode. 

Summary Statement in CDR For Australia

• applicants must analyse them to ensure they have addressed all the competency elements for Engineering Technologist.
•  They must show the analysis result in the summary statement. 
• A summary statement is used to cross-reference the competency elements with the particular paragraph in career episodes where each element occurs.
•  To do so, they must number the paragraphs in career episodes. 

CPD (Continue Professional Development) in CDR For Australia

• A CPD is a means by which applicants keep themselves up-to-date with the development in their area of engineering after the undergraduate qualification. 
• Applicants must list all their relevant CPD in a CDR application.
•  They must provide a CPD in the table format (title, date, duration, location, and organiser). 
• A CPD must include the events, short courses, meetings, and training programs that one has attended. 

How To Avoid CDR Rejection By Engineers Australia (EA)

• It is not easy to get EA’s approval for Australian immigration. Engineering technologists must keep the following points in mind when preparing their CDR application:
• Read MSA guidelines carefully to develop an understanding.
• Do adhere to the guidelines and procedure when crafting documents. 
• Avoid any kind of grammatical, spelling, and punctuation mistakes in the report.
• Keep the reports away from plagiarism, so do not copy other’s information and write authentically. 
• If career episodes are based on engineering work experiences, one must provide documentary evidence of employment. 
• Write each career episode’s narrative in an active voice using first-person pronouns such as ‘I’ or ‘me’ instead of ‘we’ or ‘us’ to show personal contribution to the task and objectives. 
• Must number each career episode and each paragraph within such as:

Engineering Technologist Job Responsibilities in  Australia 

Engineering technologists analyse, modify, test, and apply existing and new engineering technologies to resolve complex issues in consultation with engineers. Some of the job responsibilities of Engineering Technologists are listed below:

• Analyse the existing technologies and make recommendations on how to improve existing technologies. 
• Runs technologies through testing procedures and notes finding. 
• Prepare drawings of new technologies. 
• Design the processes and systems involved in producing or manufacturing the final product. 
• Manage the production process and upgrade and customize equipment. 

Engineering Technologist Annual Average Salary in Australia 

• Engineering Technologists get a handsome and higher salary in Australia compared to other countries. 
• The salaries of engineering technologists vary as per their practical knowledge and skills and past work experiences. 
• The annual average salary of Engineering Technologists in Australia ranges from AU$ 75k to AU$ 85k. 
• Apart from basic salary, they also get bonus pay and other perks.

Australian Visa Options For Engineering  Technologist (ANZSCO 233914)

							Employer Sponsorship
			Permanent		489 Visa		Permanent		457 Visa
Skilled occupation	ANZSCO Code	Assessing Authority	189 Visa	190 Visa	State	Family	186 Visa (DE)	186 Visa	All Area	Regional Area
Engineering Technologist	233914	EA
Visa processing times-months (75%)			9	12	–		10	17	5	5
Visa processing times-months (90%)			9	12	–		15	19	11	11