Support for skilled migrants

Contact

Warrnambool City Council
Phone: (03) 5559 4800
Fax: (03) 5559 4900
Email: ecodev@warrnambool.vic.gov.au

Warrnambool City Council provides limited skilled migration support services including

  • Identifying skills shortages in the Great South Coast region
  • Establishing sustainable relationships between businesses and skilled migrants to address and overcome skill shortages
  • Providing links and information and advice for employers and business in relation to the employment of skilled migrants
  • Providing links between newly-arrived skilled migrants and support services where they exist to help ease migrants and their families into our local communities.

How can we help migrants?

  • Assistance that can be provided to newly arrived migrants includes:
  • Linking skilled migrants to identified employment opportunities across the Great South Coast.
  • Links to local ethnic communities.
  • Links to migrant support initiatives, such as the Settlements Grants Program.
  • Settlement information packs.

How can we help employers?

Services that we offer to employers include:

  • Providing certification for employer sponsored visa nominations as the Great South Coast's Regional Certifiying Body (RCB).
  • Settlement information and connections for employees.