Beauty Therapist (ANZSCO 451111)

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 Beauty Therapist 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 Beauty Therapist comes from:

What the assessment actually involves

VETASSESS assesses Beauty Therapist as a Group D occupation, requiring an AQF Certificate III or higher in a beauty-therapy qualification, or its overseas equivalent, plus at least one year of highly relevant full-time (or equivalent part-time) employment within the five years before applying. The employment has to match the occupation's actual duties — skin, body and nail treatments, facials, waxing, and related client consultations — not adjacent retail or reception work in a salon. VETASSESS assesses the qualification and the employment separately, then combines them against the applicable pathway; a diploma-level or higher qualification can shorten the employment requirement compared with a bare Certificate III. Evidence follows the standard shape: transcripts, employer references describing actual duties, payslips and tax records corroborating the dates claimed.

Where these applications come unstuck

Beauty Therapist sits on the CSOL rather than the MLTSSL, so its visa reach runs through 186 and 482 employer sponsorship rather than an independent 189 or state-nominated 190 pathway. VETASSESS carries no licensing disclaimer on this occupation's own page, but that silence does not mean the work is unregulated once in Australia. In NSW, treatments classed as skin penetration under the Public Health Act require the business premises — not the individual therapist — to notify the local council before operating, a separate obligation from anything VETASSESS checks. Assuming a positive assessment covers every treatment trained in is the specific trap here, not a generic documentation problem.

An honest read on this pathway

The pathway is genuinely open — CSOL membership gives it a real employer-sponsorship route, and the Certificate III floor matches most beauty-therapy training internationally. What VETASSESS's page does not flag is the premises-level regulatory layer sitting underneath the migration assessment in at least one state (checked here for NSW only): a therapist qualified and assessed can still need their employer's business to clear a separate council notification before certain treatments are lawful, a step entirely outside the visa process.

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.

Talk it through with a registered agent

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