Cabinet Maker (ANZSCO 394112)

On the 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 Cabinet Maker on?

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 Cabinet Maker comes from:

What the assessment actually involves

TRA publishes no page naming a qualification or evidence list for Cabinet Maker specifically — it assesses this occupation, like every other trade in this family, through one of a small set of general programs picked by occupation, passport country and visa sought. Cabinet Maker sits on the Core Skills Occupation List only, and that list is never named in TRA's own repeated Migration Skills Assessment eligibility sentence, which mentions only the Medium and Long-term Strategic Skills List and the Short-term Skilled Occupations List. This does not mean Cabinet Maker cannot be assessed — TRA's broader program-comparison language elsewhere frames the Migration Skills Assessment as a catch-all — but an applicant nominating this code should confirm directly with TRA which program actually applies rather than assume it by analogy with a strategic-list trade.

Where these applications come unstuck

This code is a 2022 ANZSCO creation, not a renamed version of the older Cabinetmaker occupation, and it covers a narrower slice of work: fabricating, assembling and installing kitchen and bathroom cabinetry, wardrobes, counters and other built-in fittings. Nominating Cabinetmaker instead because the trades feel identical misdescribes the evidence a TRA officer expects against the occupation actually claimed, and the reverse mistake — nominating this narrower code when the real work spans both built-in and freestanding furniture — forecloses the points-tested and post-study routes the broader occupation still carries. This code also gets none of the processing priority or streamlined assessment that its older sibling, Cabinetmaker, receives on TRA's Construction Occupations List, despite sharing the same underlying trade.

An honest read on this pathway

Cabinet Maker reaches subclass 186 and 482 through Core Skills Occupation List membership and nothing else — no 189, no 485, no 491, no 494. That is a genuinely narrower reach than the older Cabinetmaker code it split away from, and it is a direct trade-off for the precision of the newer description: a person doing installer-type built-in cabinetry work is described more accurately, but loses the independent and post-study pathways the broader pre-2022 occupation still opens. Queensland specifically licenses cabinet making as its own trade contractor class, separate from any TRA assessment, for anyone doing this work as building work in that state.

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.

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