Training and Development Professional (ANZSCO 223311)
On the Regional 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 Training and Development Professional 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.
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).
- Skilled Employer Sponsored Regional visa (subclass 494) — Provisional, regional employer sponsored · all occupations for the 494
Processing priority
Training and Development Professional 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 Training and Development Professional comes from:
- Vocational Education and Training Assessment Services (VETASSESS) (official site) · our guide to the VETASSESS process
What the assessment actually involves
Training and Development Professional carries only ROL, reaching a single visa subclass — skilled employer sponsored regional — out of the six the wider skilled-visa system can offer a code in this family. That single-list placement is the defining fact about this code: there is no employer-nomination or Skills in Demand main-stream route available to it at all, regardless of how strong the underlying qualification or employment evidence is. South Australia's own published DAMA occupation list names this code specifically, offering a concessional skills-and-experience route for roles based in Greater Adelaide.
Where these applications come unstuck
The pitfall is assuming a training or L&D-focused career automatically has the same employer-sponsorship options as adjacent business-professional codes in this family. It does not — ROL-only placement means the standard 482/186 pathway simply is not available here, and an applicant discovering that only after building an employer-sponsorship case around this code has wasted real time. The South Australian DAMA route is a genuine alternative, but it depends entirely on an employer already being a party to that agreement and choosing to make the offer; the agreement existing is not itself a job offer.
An honest read on this pathway
For anyone with an employer in Greater Adelaide willing to sponsor under the DAMA, this code has a real, sourced route into employer-sponsored visas that the standard skilled list denies it entirely. Outside South Australia, the honest picture is narrow: a single regional visa subclass, no state nomination, no standard sponsorship stream, which makes this one of the more constrained codes in the whole family despite training and development being common, in-demand 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
Whether nominating Training and Development Professional is your best route depends on your points, experience evidence and timing — exactly what a MARA-registered agent works through in an initial consultation. Describe your situation once through Migratio and compare real consultation quotes from registered agents, free.
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