Regional job search

About the area labels

In a designated regional area

The place this advertisement names sits inside the postcodes the instrument lists. It says nothing about any visa or any person.

Not in a designated regional area

The place sits outside them. In practice that means Sydney, Melbourne or Brisbane, which are what the instrument leaves out.

Location not established

The advertisement could not be placed. Most often it names several regions at once, or a region holding postcodes on both sides of the line, so no single answer is available. It is not a fault in the advertisement.

by postcode

The postcode was looked up directly in the instrument.

by region

The advertisement named a region rather than a place, and every postcode inside that region falls the same side of the instrument.

by state

The instrument lists every postcode in that state or territory, so no postcode was needed.

A postcode marked from coordinates was not published by the source. It was found by locating the coordinates the source did publish inside an Australian Bureau of Statistics postal area, which approximates an Australia Post postcode rather than reproducing it.

Where a listing sits is decided by its postcode against the Migration (Designated regional areas for certain skilled and temporary graduate visas) Instrument (LIN 22/022) 2022, which is the published definition of a designated regional area. These labels describe where a job is. They are not a statement about any person’s visa position, and nothing here decides whether anyone may apply for or hold any visa.

About the sponsorship labels

Sponsorship offered

This advertisement states that sponsorship is available.

Open to sponsorship

This advertisement states that the employer is willing to sponsor.

Sponsorship may be considered

This advertisement raises sponsorship as a possibility rather than stating it is available, or mentions it without saying how firmly.

Sponsorship not available

This advertisement states that sponsorship is not available.

Not mentioned

The whole advertisement was read and says nothing either way. It does not mean the employer never sponsors.

Description incomplete

Only part of this advertisement is held, so its silence proves nothing. Open the original to read it in full.

These labels report what each advertisement says, quoted from the advertisement itself. They are not advice about any person’s visa position or eligibility. For that, see the Department of Home Affairs.

About the skill lines

Named, not required

A line says the advertisement mentions the thing. It does not say the employer treats it as mandatory. Advertisements in this index file mandatory requirements under headings reading "Highly Desirable" and desirable ones under "Your mandatory requirements", so the two cannot be told apart from the text and are not.

Read, never inferred

Nothing is added because a job of this kind usually wants it. A skill appears only where the advertisement writes it, and the advertisement's own words are quoted beside it wherever they differ from the label.

A blank listing means nothing was found

It does not mean the job asks for nothing. Most advertisements here reach us as a short excerpt rather than in full, and an excerpt that stops before the requirements has nothing to read. Listings that arrive whole name a skill around four times as often as excerpts do.

Skills are read from the advertisement’s own text against a fixed list of things this product recognises, and every entry on that list was counted against the stored advertisements before it was added. The list is credentials and licences first because that is what this index is mostly made of. It is not an occupation classification and does not try to be one: see the methodology for what is read and what is deliberately left alone.