Video Producer (ANZSCO 212318)

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 Video Producer 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).

Skills assessment

A positive skills assessment for Video Producer comes from:

What the assessment actually involves

Video Producer is a Group B occupation on both the Short-term Skilled Occupation List and the Core Skills Occupation List. Applicants are advised to supply a showreel, and the page separately sets out a specific self-employment evidence section for applicants who are self-employed. It excludes Media Producer (excluding Video), Art Director, Director, Director of Photography, Film and Video Editor, Program Director, Stage Manager and Technical Director by name.

Where these applications come unstuck

Media Producer (excluding Video), the code Video Producer is named against directly, explicitly carves video work out of its own scope — the two titles draw a clean boundary against each other in both directions. A producer whose output has shifted from non-video media into video work, or vice versa, is doing work that may no longer match their original nomination, and the two codes sit on very different lists, so the shift is a visa-reach question, not only a classification one.

An honest read on this pathway

Video Producer reaches six visas — 186, 190, 407, 482, 491, 494 — via combined STSOL and CSOL membership, including both employer-sponsored routes. Media Producer (excluding Video), the code its own page explicitly separates itself from, reaches only the single subclass 494 visa — the widest visa-reach gap between two directly cross-excluding titles found anywhere in this occupation family, despite both sitting under the identical Group A qualification bar in Media Producer's case, and Group B here.

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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