Retail Manager (General) (ANZSCO 142111)

On the Regional 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 Retail Manager (General) on?

ROL — Regional Occupation List. Occupations on the ROL are limited to the regional provisional visas — mainly the Skilled Work Regional 491 and Skilled Employer Sponsored Regional 494.

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).

Skills assessment

A positive skills assessment for Retail Manager (General) comes from:

What the assessment actually involves

Retail Manager (General) is Group C, AQF Diploma or higher, on ROL and CSOL — reaching Employer Nomination and the Skills in Demand main stream that the STSOL-only Cafe or Restaurant Manager code cannot reach at all. VETASSESS's own suitable-occupations list is unusually specific: it names Retail Store Manager, Shop Manager, Fast Food Restaurant Manager, Retail Fresh Produce Manager, Retail Bakery Manager, Quick Service/Takeaway Restaurant Manager and Senior Department Manager as all belonging under this one code, rather than under any of the five named specialist retail titles elsewhere in the family.

Where these applications come unstuck

The explicit inclusion of Fast Food Restaurant Manager and Quick Service/Takeaway Restaurant Manager is the key trap for anyone who manages a restaurant-format business and assumes Cafe or Restaurant Manager is automatically correct. If the format is fast-food or quick-service, VETASSESS's own page says this is the right code, not Cafe or Restaurant Manager — and the two sit on materially different lists, with only Skills in Demand Regional shared between them.

An honest read on this pathway

This code reaches Employer Nomination, the Skills in Demand main stream and Skills in Demand Regional — real employer sponsorship and permanent residence access — but not state nomination or Skilled Work Regional, which the STSOL-only codes in this family do reach. A retail manager whose duties genuinely match this code has a viable direct-sponsorship pathway; the trade-off against the STSOL codes is losing the regional and state-nominated door in exchange for gaining the employer-sponsored one.

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.

Talk it through with a registered agent

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