Public Relations Professional (ANZSCO 225311)

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 Public Relations Professional 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 Public Relations Professional comes from:

What the assessment actually involves

Public Relations Professional sits on STSOL and CSOL, reaching six visa subclasses. Its suitable list names Media Liaison Officer, Press Officer, Promotions Officer, Public Affairs Officer, Public Relations Consultant and Public Relations Officer. Its own page excludes Advertising Specialist, Marketing Specialist, Market Research Analyst, Copywriter and — the one fully bidirectional exclusion found anywhere in this research — Liaison Officer, which independently excludes PR Professional right back from its own unit group.

Where these applications come unstuck

The Liaison Officer cross-exclusion is worth knowing specifically, because the two codes sit in different unit groups and an applicant might not think to check both directions. Genuine government-relations or public-affairs liaison work should nominate whichever of the two codes its suitable-occupations list actually names, not assume either is a safe generic fallback for the other. The Copywriter exclusion is also easy to miss for anyone whose PR role includes significant writing output, since copywriting duties alone do not establish the public-relations-specific evidence this code requires.

An honest read on this pathway

This is one of the wider-reaching codes in the marketing/advertising/PR cluster, matching Advertising Specialist and Marketing Specialist at six subclasses, all three of which explicitly exclude each other. The bidirectional Liaison Officer link is the detail that most distinguishes this code from its immediate cluster-mates — it is the only code in the family with a confirmed, two-way exclusion relationship rather than a one-sided 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.

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