Telecommunications Technician (ANZSCO 342414)

On the Regional 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 Technician on?

ROL — Regional Occupation List. Occupations on the ROL are limited to the regional provisional visas — mainly the Skilled Work Regional 491 and Skilled Employer Sponsored Regional 494.

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

Telecommunications Technician 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 Telecommunications Technician comes from:

What the assessment actually involves

This code sits on the Regional Occupation List alongside CSOL, not the Medium and Long-term Strategic Skills List or Short-term Skilled Occupations List that TRA's Migration Skills Assessment eligibility text names outright. TRA's captured pages do not separately confirm ROL as a qualifying list for MSA in that sentence, leaving this code's specific eligibility route genuinely unclear from what has been published. A real applicant on britishexpats.com had to work out that TRA, not the ICT assessing authority ACS, actually assessed this occupation: “ACS not my assesment authority, as my profession Telecommunication Technician TRA will asses.”

Where these applications come unstuck

The title reads as senior, qualified work — installing and repairing equipment in exchanges and network sites — but the visa list is the family's narrowest tier: ROL+CSOL, reaching only 186, 482 and 494. Cabler (Data and Telecommunications), 342411, sounds like the more junior internal-wiring role but sits on STSOL+CSOL reaching six subclasses including 190, 407 and 491. The same applicant separately learned TRA would not run two assessment products for him at once: “Migration Skills Assessment applications and Migration Points Tests cannot be processed simultaneously.”

An honest read on this pathway

This is one of the narrower pathways in the family — three visas, no independent, no graduate, no state-nominated route. ANZSCO carries no registration-or-licensing flag for this occupation, so no published state-licensing overlay was found here. Anyone assuming this title's seniority translates into a wider visa list should check the actual occupation list first — in this family, it plainly does not.

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 Telecommunications Technician 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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