I recently had a question from a reader who wanted to know about how governments specifically define “skilled worker” when it comes to giving out work permits and eased work permit.
In short, skilled workers have education, work experience, knowledge of languages and other abilities that will help make them to stand out from the crowd. How individual countries measure this, though, is where theory meets the road. European countries like to use four basic categories:
- Income (if you can get above a certain income level, authorities will like you)
- Education (if you have an undergraduate degree or higher, authorities will like you)
- Experience (if you have specific training or certifiable specialized training, authorities will like you)
- Income and Experience (if your prospective job has an income above a certain figure and you have a higher degree, then you’re in)
In some areas, specific knowledge is much more valuable than a higher degree. For example, IT companies will pay top Euro for someone with SAP training. Is there a four-year university degree in SAP? No, and there aren’t any for Xerox either. In order to make sure that companies get SAP experts instead of just people with doctorates in Renaissance German, governments may equate experience and specialized courses with higher degrees.
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