Records Manager (ANZSCO 224214)

On the Short-term Skilled 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 Records 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.

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 Records Manager comes from:

What the assessment actually involves

Records Manager carries the widest exclusion list of any code in its immediate cluster: its own page names seven excluded titles — Librarian, Bookkeepers, Secretarial and clerical roles, Administrative Assistant, Archivist, Health Information Manager and Office Manager. The required field of study is Information Management, defined by VETASSESS as covering "different methods and practices in information management, the methods of selecting and organising information resources." The code sits on STSOL, reaching four visa subclasses: state nomination, the graduate visa and both regional streams, with no employer-sponsorship pathway.

Where these applications come unstuck

The breadth of the exclusion list is itself the warning: applicants coming from adjacent information-management-sounding roles — a hospital medical-records job, a library position, general office or clerical administration — are being told directly by VETASSESS that none of those count as this occupation, however similar the daily tasks feel. Health Information Manager only partially reciprocates this list, naming Records Manager and Clinical Coder as its own exclusions, so the line between the two runs one way in fuller detail from Records Manager's side.

An honest read on this pathway

This is a well-defined code once the field-of-study and exclusion boundaries are respected, but it rewards precision: the seven named exclusions mean an applicant cannot treat "records" or "information" work loosely and expect it to fit. Its visa reach — no employer sponsorship, four subclasses via STSOL — matches Health Information Manager and Librarian exactly, so nothing is gained by nominating this code over either of those two for visa-breadth reasons alone.

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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