Technical Sales Representatives nec (ANZSCO 225499)

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 Technical Sales Representatives nec 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 Technical Sales Representatives nec comes from:

What the assessment actually involves

Technical Sales Representatives nec sits on STSOL and CSOL, reaching six visa subclasses — double the reach of both Sales Representative (Industrial Products) and Sales Representative (Medical and Pharmaceutical Products), the two named, specific titles beside it, because it additionally carries STSOL where they carry only ROL. Its own suitable-occupations list is a single title: Sales Representative (Educational Products and Services) — meaning a reader selling education products is explicitly steered to this nec code by VETASSESS's own page, not toward either of the two named alternatives.

Where these applications come unstuck

The wider reach can read as an invitation to nominate this code opportunistically instead of a narrower one that actually fits, but VETASSESS's own exclusion list rules that out directly: this code excludes both named sales-representative titles and all three ICT sales and development codes by name, and its own page — echoing the family's general nec rule — asks for a cover letter justifying why the nec category was chosen. An applicant selling industrial or medical/pharmaceutical products specifically should still nominate the named code that matches, not this one, regardless of the visa-reach difference.

An honest read on this pathway

For someone selling a product category that genuinely doesn't fit either named sales-representative title — educational products and services is VETASSESS's own confirmed example — this code is the correct nomination on the merits, and it happens to also be the one with the wider visa reach. That is a real, sourced coincidence worth stating plainly rather than treating as a general licence to nominate nec across this family whenever the visa list looks better.

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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