Corporate Services Manager (ANZSCO 132111)

On the Short-term Skilled Occupation List and Core Skills Occupation List

From the official Home Affairs skilled occupation lists, as at 2026-08-12. Lists change at each government update — always confirm on the official page before acting.

Which lists is Corporate Services Manager on?

STSOL — Short-term Skilled Occupation List. Occupations on the STSOL can access state-nominated and regional skilled visas (190/491), but not the Skilled Independent 189.

CSOL — Core Skills Occupation List. The employer-sponsorship list — occupations on the CSOL can be nominated for the Skills in Demand visa (subclass 482) and the Employer Nomination Scheme 186.

Visas this occupation can access

Being on a list makes the occupation nominatable for these visas — each visa still has its own requirements (points, age, English, a positive skills assessment, and for sponsored visas a willing employer or state).

Processing priority

Corporate Services Manager isn't in any of the ANZSCO groups that Directions 121 and 122 list for the priority sectors. Some of the first group is defined by the job rather than the code: a nominated position directly involved in agriculture, aquaculture or fishing, one that directly supports mining, oil and gas or coal production, or one related to defence. Otherwise the application is processed after the priority sectors. For the permanent and provisional skilled visas, applicants who were in Australia when they applied come next, then those who applied from outside Australia. For the 482, Specialist Skills stream applications come before both.

Priority changes the order in which lodged applications are looked at, not whether they are granted. Who is invited to apply through SkillSelect is decided separately. See all 202 occupations in the priority sectors.

Skills assessment

A positive skills assessment for Corporate Services Manager comes from:

What the assessment actually involves

VETASSESS assesses Corporate Services Manager as a Group B occupation, so a Bachelor degree or higher is the floor and its four pathways trade field-relevance against more years of employment, the shape most Group B codes in this family repeat. The occupation carries STSOL and CSOL, reaching state nomination, Employer Nomination and the Skills in Demand main stream — six visa subclasses in total. VETASSESS's own page names what the code is not: Corporate General Manager, Finance Manager, Policy and Planning Manager and Research and Development Manager are all explicitly excluded, so a corporate-services title alone is not enough on its own — the duties nominated have to match this specific function.

Where these applications come unstuck

The exclusion list is the trap. Policy and Planning Manager and Research and Development Manager sit in the same minor group and both explicitly exclude Corporate Services Manager in return, so VETASSESS treats the three as separate functions rather than one broad executive-office role with different titles. Someone whose real work spans strategy, oversight of R&D and general corporate administration has to pick the one function their actual duties best evidence, because nominating the wrong code means the employment reference is matched against the wrong occupation description from the outset, not against a general sense of corporate seniority.

An honest read on this pathway

This pathway is genuinely open — six visa subclasses including direct employer sponsorship and state nomination, on a Group B structure where extra years of employment can offset a less-relevant degree. The real cost sits at the nomination stage: three closely related corporate-management titles occupy this small cluster, each one excluding the other two by name, so the evidence has to visibly match the one duty description nominated, not a general impression of running the corporate office.

VETASSESS assesses qualifications and employment separately. Both need documentation that agrees with itself. The Employment History Builder and Document Vault organise each trail before you lodge.

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