482 & 186 Employers’ Sponsorships: How do Australian companies benefit from sponsoring?

The 482 & 186 Visas for Employers’ Sponsorships

The 482 Visa

The TSS 482 Visa is designed for skilled professionals to fill high-demand roles in Australia. allows employees to work in Australia for a nominated employer on a full-time basis for up to four years. The purpose of this visa is to fill the employment gaps in the Australian labour market for occupations that are currently unable to be filled by appropriately qualified and skilled Australian workers.

Note: Skills in Demand which is a recent update to the Temporary Skill Shortage (subclass 482) visa. 

The 186 Visa

The Employer Nominated Scheme (ENS) – Subclass 186 is a permanent employer sponsored visa that requires a company to nominate you for employment. It is similar to the standard TSS 482 Visa, but the main difference is the TSS 482 Visa is temporary. The 186 visa is permanent.

Why do these visas matter to employers?

To be able to be legally employed in Australia, the right visas must be granted to the prospective employee. The 482 and the 186 are the visas that work well with sponsoring employers to live and work in the country.

From Leadership’s POV | The Benefits

Companies gain these when they sponsor their employee’s 482  or 186 visa

1. Larger talent pool access

Employers can gain a farther reach within the talent pool by sponsoring an employee from overseas. 

Sponsorship situation: A nursing home facility in Melbourne is seeking to find a group of skilled Aged Care Nurses. They tried locally, but haven’t gotten aligned employees so far. By sponsoring nurses internationally with the 482 Visa, they avoid the risk of understaffing. Shortage would’ve resulted in employee overtime costs and patient dissatisfaction.

Big-picture Benefit: Prevents business risk

2. Quick filling for hard-to-fill jobs

There can be times that sponsoring skilled workers has a quicker turnaround. 

Sponsorship situation: A tech enterprise in Adelaide is looking for a Cybersecurity Specialist urgently. Recruiting locally moves at a slower pace than expected when the company is in need of faster hiring. Sponsoring a qualified candidate overseas enables projects to work on a scheduled timeframe, which leads to protecting streams of revenue that rely on timely products and services.

Big-picture Benefit: Serves as a revenue protection tool

3. Maintained business stability & workforce retention

Sponsorship creates more stability within the workforce and creates a steady retention rate. 

Sponsorship situation: In Canberra, a construction company sponsors a skilled Site Supervisor for their team. The outcome is favorable as the employee stays for more than a decade which results in reducing expenses for turnover, recruitment, and training fees while building a stable and experienced team.

Big-picture Benefit: Enables long-term cost efficiency

4. Long-term workforce planning

The 186 visa allows skilled workers to live and work in Australia permanently. This gives the company assurance that the employee stays with them long-term. 

Sponsorship situation: In Perth, an electrical company hires high-potential Industrial Technicians and sponsors them with the 186 pathway in mind. Company leadership ensures that their newly assembled team will remain for a long period of time, enabling workforce planning without repeating the same hiring process.

Big-picture Benefit: The 186 visa offers talent retention insurance

5. Competitive advantage

Sponsoring can draw in more candidates from a wider scope that edges out competing companies. 

Sponsorship situation: Byron Bay’s local startup sponsors a few leading UX Designers. The company puts out promotional content on its careers page as a way to signal global talent hiring. By boosting the brand’s workforce search, it creates traction within a larger demographic over competitors who hire only locally.

Big-picture Benefit: Recruitment becomes a marketing strategy

6. Rising Industry Growth & Expansion

Through sponsoring skilled workers, the potential for growth and expansion heightens by getting international talent. 

Sponsorship situation: Regional NSW is the latest location an Agritech company wants to expand their business in. Through overseas sponsorship, this allows the company to quicken site openings, increase production capacity, and support industry growth as leadership develops their expansion.

Big-picture Benefit: Allows company scaling

7. Sufficient regional incentives

Sponsorship provides potential incentives in regional areas where labour shortage increases as company operation decreases.

Sponsorship situation: Tasmania’s regional hospital is looking to sponsor Healthcare Workers from abroad. The government gives workers who qualify grants and tax incentives upon employment. The medical professionals receive incentives that lead to lowering operation expenses while allowing administration to uphold their quality care services in an area that has limited talent availability.
 

Big-picture Benefit: Provides business/company survival

8. Diversified cultural & specialised skills

Sponsorship creates a diversified team of workers that contribute multiple points of view that could help companies achieve success. 

Sponsorship situation: In Sydney, a marketing firm plans to globalise their business by bringing in a multicultural team of Accounts Managers through visa sponsorship. Through diverse perspectives and visionary insights, the company innovates campaign strategies into creative solutions, which benefits the company by forming a meaningful organizational culture. 

Big-picture Benefit: Pioneers innovation edge