Performing Arts Technicians nec (ANZSCO 399599)

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 Performing Arts Technicians nec 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 Performing Arts Technicians nec comes from:

What the assessment actually involves

Performing Arts Technician nec is a VETASSESS Group D occupation — the lowest qualification floor in this family, an AQF Certificate III or IV. Suitable titles include Continuity Person, Microphone Boom Operator, Performing Arts Road Manager, Special Effects Person and Theatrical Dresser: backstage and production-support roles ANZSCO's named performing-arts technician titles do not individually cover. Reach on the standard skilled lists is the widest in this family — the Employer Nomination Scheme, state nomination, the Skills in Demand visa and the regional routes.

Where these applications come unstuck

As with every nec code, work highly relevant to a named ANZSCO occupation cannot be assessed against this nec classification instead, whichever list looks more favourable — VETASSESS's justification-cover-letter requirement exists specifically to test that. This code's own page also carries a block of content, a specialisation list and an organisational-chart instruction, copied from an unrelated managerial occupation; it does not describe genuine evidence for this non-managerial, Certificate-level role, and anyone who finds it there should confirm directly with VETASSESS what their own occupation actually requires rather than acting on it.

An honest read on this pathway

The Certificate III/IV floor and the wide visa reach make this a genuinely useful catch-all for backstage production work that does not fit one of ANZSCO's named performing-arts technician titles, provided the nec justification is done properly rather than as an afterthought. No forum testimony or additional licensing regime specific to this code was found in the sources reached for this research.

VETASSESS assesses qualifications and employment separately. Both need documentation that agrees with itself. The Employment History Builder and Document Vault organise each trail before you lodge.

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