Furniture Maker (ANZSCO 394113)

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 Furniture 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 Furniture Maker comes from:

What the assessment actually involves

TRA has no dedicated page for Furniture Maker — the same small set of general assessment programs applies here as across every trade in this family, chosen by occupation, passport country, place of study and visa sought. Furniture Maker sits on the Core Skills Occupation List only, which is never named in TRA's repeated Migration Skills Assessment eligibility wording — that sentence names only the Medium and Long-term Strategic Skills List and Short-term Skilled Occupations List. TRA's own comparison table elsewhere frames the Migration Skills Assessment more broadly as covering pathways not specified under its other programs, so this does not conclude Furniture Maker is excluded — only that the literal eligibility sentence does not name its list, and TRA should be asked directly which program governs it.

Where these applications come unstuck

Furniture Maker is a 2022 ANZSCO creation covering freestanding furniture work — fabricating and repairing pieces from timber, veneers, laminates and cane — and it explicitly excludes finishing work, which sits under the separate Furniture Finisher occupation. It is not a renamed version of the older Cabinetmaker code; that older, broader occupation covered both fixed cabinetry and freestanding furniture and still reaches visas this code cannot. An applicant whose real work spans both built-in and freestanding pieces, in the shape the older single trade described, should not default to Furniture Maker purely because it is the current ANZSCO name — doing so forecloses the points-tested and post-study routes the broader code keeps.

An honest read on this pathway

Furniture Maker reaches only subclass 186 and 482, through Core Skills Occupation List membership, with no 189, 485, 491 or 494 access at all. That is a real ceiling for anyone hoping for an independent or post-study pathway on this exact trade description, and it is the direct cost of the 2022 split narrowing the old Cabinetmaker occupation into two precise but limited ones. It also sits outside TRA's Construction Occupations List entirely, so it gets none of the processing priority or OSAP exemption that the older Cabinetmaker code receives for seven named passport countries doing what is, in substance, closely related work.

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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