Recruitment Consultant (ANZSCO 223112)

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 Recruitment Consultant 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 Recruitment Consultant comes from:

What the assessment actually involves

Recruitment Consultant sits on both STSOL and CSOL, which gives it one more visa subclass — state nomination — than its two closest HR siblings. VETASSESS's own suitable-occupations list names Employment Consultant and Casting Agent as expected, but also Literary Agent, a genuinely surprising inclusion that treats talent and literary agenting as the same occupation as commercial recruitment. The code's own page excludes Human Resource Adviser and Workplace Relations Adviser by name, describing them as occupations "classified elsewhere" in ANZSCO, so a generalist HR background alone will not satisfy this code's evidence requirements.

Where these applications come unstuck

Applicants sometimes assume this code covers any HR-adjacent hiring work, but VETASSESS draws the line at candidate sourcing and placement specifically, not workforce strategy or advice. Evidence built around policy design, workforce planning or employee relations — the kind of work Human Resource Adviser assesses — will read as the wrong occupation here even where the job title says "HR" or "talent." The Literary Agent inclusion is easy to miss and cuts the other way too: an applicant whose actual work is closer to agenting than recruitment can nominate correctly here rather than assuming no code fits.

An honest read on this pathway

Recruitment Consultant is one of the wider-reaching codes in the HR trio, reaching state nomination where Human Resource Adviser and Workplace Relations Adviser cannot. That makes it worth checking carefully whether a candidate-facing, placement-focused role genuinely matches this code before defaulting to the more generic-sounding "HR Adviser" title — the visa outcome differs, and VETASSESS's own exclusion wording makes clear the two are not interchangeable labels for the same work.

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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