Specialised Occupations List Published - Likely Basis Of New Skilled Occupations List - Australian Immigration
By Mark Webster
20 March 2010
On 5 March 2010, Skills Australia produced a strategy report titled "Australian Workforce Futures". Skills Australia will be responsible for setting the new Skilled Occupations List, and within the report, there is a list called the "Specialised Occupations List". The Specialised Occupations list is likely to be the basis of the revised Skilled Occupations List to be finalised at the end of April 2010 and introduced in July 2010.
The Specialised Occupations List gives an insight into the likely future Skilled Occupations List. The list covers the following broad specialisations:
- Medical Occupations - from doctors, nurses, pharmacists through to medical administrators and aged care workers
- Engineering
- Architecture, Surveying and Construction
- Educational professionals
- Accountants and Auditors
- Legal Professionals
- Selected Trades
It includes a number of occupations which are not currently on the Skilled Occupations List, including:
- A broader range of education professionals, including university lecturers and teachers of English as a Second Language
- Aviation professionals (pilots and flight instructors)
- Judges, magistrates and tribunal members
- Police officers and fire fighters
The list has many of the occupations on the current Migration Occupations in Demand List such as engineers, accountants and selected trades.
However, the following occupational groups are excluded from the Specialised Occupations List:
- General business occupations such as management, marketing and HR
- Hairdressing and Commercial Cookery
- Fitters and welders
Accountants are on the list, but only if their qualifications are CPA-equivalent. This would most likely affect a large number of international students studying accounting in Australia, as the CPA qualification generally takes several years of post-qualification work experience to obtain.
Surprisingly, the list is relatively short on science occupations such as mathematicians, life scientists and chemists - the low priority of these occupations under the current system was one of the stated reasons for making drastic changes.
The list is published using ANZSCO codes - we have attempted to translate these through to the current ASCO codings.
Below is the list as published by Skills Australia:
1331 Construction managers 1332 Engineering managers 1341 Child care centre managers 1342 Health and welfare services managers 1343 School principals 1344 Other education managers 2211 Accountants(a) 2212 Auditors, company secretaries and corporate treasurers(b) 2221 Financial brokers 2241 Actuaries, mathematicians and statisticians(c) 2245 Land economists and valuers 2311 Air transport professionals 2312 Marine transport professionals 2321 Architects and landscape architects 2322 Cartographers and surveyors 2326 Urban and regional planners 2331 Chemical and materials engineers 2332 Civil engineering professionals 2333 Electrical engineers 2334 Electronics engineers 2335 Industrial, mechanical and production engineers 2336 Mining engineers 2339 Other engineering professionals 2341 Agricultural and forestry scientists 2346 Medical laboratory scientists 2347 Veterinarians 2493 Teachers of English to speakers of other languages 2411 Early childhood (pre-primary school) teachers 2412 Primary school teachers 2413 Middle school teachers 2414 Secondary school teachers 2415 Special education teachers 2421 University lecturers and tutors 2511 Dieticians 2512 Medical imaging professionals 2514 Optometrists and orthoptists 2515 Pharmacists 2521 Chiropractors and osteopaths 2523 Dental practitioners 2524 Occupational therapists 2525 Physiotherapists 2526 Podiatrists 2527 Speech professionals and audiologists 2531 Generalist medical practitioners 2532 Anaesthetists 2533 Internal medicine specialists 2534 Psychiatrists 2535 Surgeons 2539 Other medical practitioners 2542 Nurse educators and researchers 2543 Nurse managers 2544 Registered nurses 2611 ICT business and systems analysts 2613 Software and applications programmers 2633 Telecommunications engineering professionals 2711 Barristers(d) 2712 Judicial and other legal professionals(d) 2713 Solicitors(d) 2723 Psychologists 2725 Social workers 3122 Civil engineering draftspersons and technicians 3132 Telecommunications technical specialists 3211 Automotive electricians 3212 Motor mechanics 3221 Metal casting, forging and finishing trades workers 3222 Sheet metal trades workers 3231 Aircraft maintenance engineers 3233 Precision metal trades workers 3241 Panel beaters 3243 Vehicle painters 3311 Bricklayers and stonemasons 3312 Carpenters and joiners 3321 Floor finishers 3322 Painting trades workers 3331 Glaziers 3332 Plasterers 3334 Wall and floor tilers 3341 Plumbers 3411 Electricians 3421 Air-conditioning and refrigeration mechanics 3422 Electrical distribution trades workers 3423 Electronics trades workers 3942 Wood machinists and other wood trades workers 3991 Boat builders and shipwrights 3996 Sign writers 4112 Dental hygienists, technicians and therapists 4114 Enrolled and mothercraft nurses 4115 Indigenous health workers 4231 Aged and disabled carers 4233 Nursing support and personal care workers 4412 Fire and emergency workers 4413 Police
(a) CPA or equivalent
(b) Auditors only
(c) Actuaries only
(d) Legal professionals admitted to practice only
