Telecommunications Linesworker (ANZSCO 342413)

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 Telecommunications Linesworker 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 Telecommunications Linesworker comes from:

What the assessment actually involves

This code sits on the STSOL, one of the two lists TRA's Migration Skills Assessment eligibility text names outright, and is not among TRA's four licensed occupations excluded from MSA. The standard MSA evidence set applies — passport identity page, qualification with transcripts, an Employer Template form and pay evidence per employment period, no English test required, generally finalised within TRA's stated 120 days. One britishexpats.com poster described a real assessment for this code taking “approximately 8 weeks” in 2018 — a single historical data point, not a current guarantee.

Where these applications come unstuck

The title invites confusion with Electrical Linesworker (342211), a different unit group covering the power grid rather than telecommunications infrastructure — reference letters describing phone or data-line work do not support the electrical code, and vice versa. Counter-intuitively, this telecommunications code reaches one more visa than its electrical namesake: this code's STSOL+CSOL list includes subclass 190, while Electrical Linesworker's ROL+CSOL list does not.

An honest read on this pathway

The pathway reaches six visa subclasses including 190, 407 and 491, a genuinely broader list than its electrical counterpart despite the similar name. It sits on STSOL rather than MLTSSL, so it does not reach the independent 189 or graduate 485 subclass. ANZSCO carries no registration-or-licensing flag for this occupation, so no published state-licensing overlay was found sitting on top of the skills assessment for this code specifically.

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

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