Electronic Equipment Trades Worker (ANZSCO 342313)

On the Medium and Long-term Strategic Skills 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 Electronic Equipment Trades Worker on?

MLTSSL — Medium and Long-term Strategic Skills List. The widest list — occupations on the MLTSSL can access the points-tested permanent skilled visas including the Skilled Independent visa (subclass 189), which needs no state nomination or employer.

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).

Processing priority

Electronic Equipment Trades Worker 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 Electronic Equipment Trades Worker comes from:

What the assessment actually involves

This code sits on the MLTSSL with TRA as assessing authority, meeting TRA's Migration Skills Assessment eligibility text outright: “listed on the Medium and Long-term Strategic Skills Lists (MLTSSL) or the Short-term Skilled Occupations Lists (STSOL).” It is not one of TRA's four licensed occupations excluded from MSA. The standard MSA evidence set applies — passport identity page, qualification and full transcripts, an Employer Template form and pay evidence for each claimed employment period — with no English test required and outcomes generally finalised within TRA's stated 120 days.

Where these applications come unstuck

ANZSCO's task description for this code — audio and visual reproduction equipment, home entertainment systems, computers and electronic security systems — sits close to Business Machine Mechanic (342311, office equipment) and the two Electronic Instrument Trades Worker codes (control systems and instruments) inside the same unit group. TRA is explicit that a formal qualification cannot be substituted with experience alone, so the qualification and employer references both need to match this specific consumer/security-electronics scope rather than a neighbouring code's scope.

An honest read on this pathway

This is one of the family's strongest pathways — MLTSSL, with the full eight-visa reach including the independent 189 and graduate 485 subclasses. ANZSCO carries no registration-or-licensing flag for this occupation, so unlike four of its neighbours in the same minor group, there is no published state-licensing overlay on top of the migration outcome itself, based on what this research pass found.

Going through Trades Recognition Australia? TRA pathways lean heavily on documented work history and evidence of on-the-job experience. The Employment History Builder reconstructs it with gap detection, so the record you submit holds together.

Talk it through with a registered agent

Whether nominating Electronic Equipment Trades Worker 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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