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).

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.

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Talk it through with a registered agent

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