This sector covers health services specifically for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health

This sector covers understanding and creating traditional or contemporary Aboriginal art.

Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander Cultural Arts

This sector covers the provision of accommodation for visitors in hotels, motels, units and caravan parks.

Accommodation

This sector covers the auditing of accounting records, preparation of financial statements and tax returns and bookkeeping.

Accounting and Bookkeeping

This sector covers activities related to bringing a product (or service) to the attention of potential and current customers, and meeting the needs of customers.

Advertising and Marketing

This sector covers the provision of advice or assistance to help someone resolve personal difficulties.

Advice and Counselling

This sector covers the provision of services for the disabled in residential and home settings.

Aged Care and Disability

This sector covers the growing and cultivation of horticultural and other crops; raising animals; growing and harvesting timber; and harvesting fish and other animals from their habitats and farms.  For qualifications relating to this industry, use the headings Agriculture (Miscellaneous), Farming, Fishing Industry, Forests and Forest Products, Horticulture, or Irrigation.

Agriculture

This sector covers general agriculture activities not specifically dealt with elsewhere, including general cropping, farm management and beekeeping.

Agriculture (Miscellaneous)

This sector covers the installation, maintenance and repair of airconditioning and refrigeration.

Airconditioning and Refrigeration

This sector covers the maintenance and repair of aircraft.

Aircraft Maintenance

This sector covers services designed to reduce the harm caused by alcohol and other drugs.

Alcohol and Other Drugs

This sector covers out-of-hospital acute medical care  and/or transport to definitive care, to patients with illnesses and injuries which the patient, or the medical practitioner, believes constitutes a medical emergency.

Ambulance Services

This sector covers the non-medical support services provided by health facilities.

Ancillary Health Services

This sector covers the active management, breeding, preservation, study and exhibition of live animals. For qualifications relating to specific aspects of the animal care industry, use the headings Companion Animal Services, or Veterinary Nursing.

Animal Care and Management

This sector covers the farming of aquatic life under controlled conditions and marine environment management.

Aquaculture

This sector covers the cultivation and management of trees, as well as their selection, planting, care, surgery and tree removal.

Arboriculture

This sector covers administrative tasks in the support of the arts media, entertainment and cultural industries.

Arts Administration

This sector covers recreational and artistic services across the entertainment and sport industries.  For qualifications relating to this industry, use the headings Dance, Theatre, Music Industry, Screen and Media, Visual Arts and Crafts, Professional Sports, or Recreational Sports.

Arts and Recreation Services

This sector covers the cleaning and maintenance of properties.

Asset Maintenance

This sector covers security operations, technical security and investigative services. For qualifications relating to specific aspects of asset security, use the headings Security Operations, or Security and Risk Management.

Asset Security

This sector covers the administrative aspects of the automotive industry, including sales and insurance. For qualifications relating to the service and repair aspects of the automotive industry, use the heading Automotive Service and Repair.

Automotive Industry

This sector covers the manufacture of both bodies and parts for domestic automobiles as well as light-commercial vehicles such as buses, trucks and vans.

Automotive Manufacturing

This sector covers the servicing and repair of all vehicles. For qualifications relating to specific categories of vehicles, use the headings Motor Vehicles, or Other Vehicles.

Automotive Service and Repair

This sector covers the transportation of passengers and freight by aircraft. For qualifications relating to specific aspects of aviation, use the headings Aircraft Maintenance, Ground Operations, or Helicopters.

Aviation

This sector covers the manufacture of bread, cakes, pastries, pies and biscuits from factory based, retail or home premises.

Baking

This sector covers electrolysis, make-up, nail care and skin care services.

Beauty

This sector covers drilling to produce a series of holes for the placement of blasting charges.

Blast Hole Drilling

This sector covers boat building, and the maintenance, repair and manufacture of recreational water vessels.

Boating Services

This sector covers measures undertaken to prevent unwanted entry of illegal or harmful goods or people across a nation's border.

Border Protection

This sector covers the distribution of audio and visual programs to an audience, including radio broadcasts and television transmissions.

Broadcasting Production

This sector covers trading stocks, finding sources for contracts of insurance, or selling mortgage loans on behalf of customers.

Broking

This sector covers the construction, repair and renovation of buildings and engineering works, as well as the subdivision and development of land.  The qualifications listed here provide basic entry into this sector.  For specialisations within this area, use the headings Building Trades, Construction Services, or Off-Site Construction.

Building and Construction

This sector covers the trades that are primarily concerned with the construction and finishing of buildings.

Building Trades

This sector covers the establishment and maintenance of procedures, records, and regulations for commercial activities. For qualifications relating to specific aspects of business administration, use the headings Governance, Human Resource Management, Occupational Health & Safety, Purchasing and Procurement, Quality Auditing, or Recordkeeping.

Business Administration

This sector covers the activities necessary for the effective operation of a business.  For qualifications relating to this industry, use the headings Advertising and Marketing, Business Administration, Commerce, Customer Service, Financial Services, Industrial Relations, Legal Administration, or Small Business.

Business Services

This sector covers the production of chemical products, and extraction, refinement and distribution of hydrocarbon and oil products.

Chemical, Hydrocarbon and Oil Refining

This sector covers services designed to protect children and young people who are underage.  It includes foster care, adoption services, investigating alleged child abuse, encouraging family stability, and provision of services aimed at supporting at-risk families so that they can remain intact.

Child Protection

This sector covers services specifically designed to benefit the health, safety, development, and well being of children, including care during out of school hours.

Children's Services

This sector covers the design, construction and maintenance of structures such as bridges, roads, canals, dams and buildings.

Civil Construction

This sector covers the custom dressmaking industry, including pattern making, fitting and garment construction.

Clothing Production

This sector covers open-cut and underground mining of black or brown coal.

Coal Mining

This sector covers the exchange of goods and services from the producer to the consumer.

Commerce

This sector covers the retail sale of prescription drugs and patent medicines, cosmetics and toiletries.

Community Pharmacy

This sector covers a range of social support services, including children's and youth services, aged care assistance, disability services and counselling. For qualifications relating to specific aspects of community services, use the headings Advice and Counselling, Aged Care and Disability, Alcohol and Other Drugs, Child Protection, Children's Services, Community Services Management, Employment Services, Juvenile Justice, Mental Health, Social Housing, Volunteers, or Youth Work.

Community Services

This sector covers the management role of organisations which provide community services and program.

Community Services Management

This sector covers the care of a variety of animals; managing and maintaining specialised animal housing facilities; and monitoring and maintaining the health of companion animals.

Companion Animal Services

This sector covers healing practices that do not fall within the realm of conventional medicine, including naturopathy, herbalism, traditional Chinese medicine, Unani, Ayurveda, homeopathy and nutritional-based therapies.

Complementary/Alternative Health

This sector covers dealing with fertilisers as well as biodegrading organic matter.

Composting

This sector covers the construction of properties as well as their sale and maintenance. For qualifications relating to this industry, use the headings Building and Construction, Civil Construction, Property, or Surveying.

Construction and Property

This sector covers the services, which are not building trades, required for the construction and finishing of buildings.

Construction Services

This sector covers the operation and management of correctional institutes and detention centres.

Correctional Services

This sector covers costumes and makeup for television, film and stage productions.

Costumes and Makeup

This sector covers the operation of civil and criminal courts.

Courts

This sector covers educational, training and cultural interests, including libraries and museums. For qualifications relating to this industry, use the headings Education Administration,  Education Support, Libraries, Museums, or Training.

Cultural Industries

This sector covers the provision of services to customers before, during and after a purchase.

Customer Service

This sector covers the installation, maintenance and repair of data and voice communications equipment.

Data Communications

This sector covers the activities conducted by military and civilian defence personnel, both at home and abroad, including wartime operations, border protection, peacekeeping and humanitarian support.

Defence Services

This sector covers all aspects of the health care of a patient, including treatments, counselling, self-care, patient education, and administration of medication.

Direct Client Care

This sector involves the use of heavy machinery to break through the earth's surface. For qualifications relating to specific aspects of the drilling industry, use the headings Blast Hole Drilling, Environmental Drilling, Foundation/Construction Drilling, Geotechnical Drilling, Mineral Exploration Drilling, Oil and Gas Drilling, Seismic Drilling, Trenchless and Directional Drilling, or Water Well Drilling.

Drilling

This sector covers a broad range of administrative competencies in an educational or school support work context.

Education Administration

This sector covers the provision of non-instructional services that support educational processes or systems.

Education Support

This sector covers electricity, electronics and electromagnetism. This sector also covers electricians working in industrial sites including oil, gas and other energy, mining and manufacturing.

Electrical Engineering

This sector covers the delivery of electricity to customers, including homes and businesses.

Electricity Distribution

This sector covers all aspects of the maintenance of the equipment which produces electricity.

Electricity Generation Maintenance

This sector covers the production of electricity and its provision to transmission systems or to electric power distribution systems.

Electricity Generation Operations

This sector covers the generation of electricity as well as its transmission and distribution. The qualifications listed here provide basic entry into this sector.  For specialisations within this area, use the headings Electricity Distribution, Electricity Generation Maintenance, Electricity Generation Operations, or Electricity Transmission.

Electricity Industry

This sector covers the movement or transfer of electricity between the point of supply and the points where it is transformed for delivery to consumers.

Electricity Transmission

This sector covers the installation, maintenance and repair of business electronics and computer systems.

Electronics and Computer Systems

This sector covers the application of electricity within technology. For qualifications relating to specific aspects of electrotechnology, use the headings Airconditioning and Refrigeration, Data Communications, Electronics and Computer Systems, Electrotechnology and Technical Support, Fire and Security, Renewable and Sustainable Energy, or Systems Electrics.

Electrotechnology

This sector covers the technical support for aspects of the electrotechnology industry, including the production and assembly of equipment.

Electrotechnology Technical Support

This sector provides assistance to individuals in securing employment or acquiring learning skills that promote opportunities for employment.

Employment Services

This sector covers the application of technical, scientific and mathematical knowledge to design and implement materials, devices, systems and processes that safely realise a desired objective or invention. For qualifications relating to this industry, use the headings Electrical Engineering, Fabrication Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Production Engineering, or Technical Engineering.

Engineering

This sector covers the coordinating and administrative aspects of the entertainment industry.

Entertainment Administration

This sector covers the installation, maintenance and repair of equipment and systems used for audio and video recording, processing and reproduction.

Entertainment Systems and Servicing

This sector covers the provision of services to the public in the entertainment industry.

Entertainment Customer Service

This sector covers lighting, stage management, sound and multimedia aspects of the entertainment industry.

Entertainment Technical Operations

This sector covers subsurface exploration for contaminants and hazardous substances that strain groundwater resources; soil and rock sampling, and the installation of monitoring wells or gas probes to study subsurface contamination.

Environmental Drilling

This sector covers all aspects of the natural and built environment that may affect human health.

Environmental Health

This sector covers the management of human interaction with, and its impact on, the environment. For qualifications relating to this industry, use the headings Animal Care and Management, Environmental Health, Environmental Protection, Pest Management, or Weed Management.

Environmental Management

This sector covers the presentation, promotion or production of a range of culture, sporting or leisure events.

Events

This sector covers the building of machines, structures and other equipment, by cutting, shaping and assembling components made from raw materials.

Fabrication Engineering

This sector covers rural farming operations. For qualifications relating to specific farming sectors, use the headings Livestock, Sheep, or Poultry.

Farming

This sector covers the design and manufacture of textiles, clothing, footwear and millinery. For qualifications relating to specific aspects of the fashion industry, use the headings Clothing Production, Fashion and Textiles Sales, Footwear, or Millinery.

Fashion

This sector covers the selling of clothing, clothing accessories and textiles.

Fashion and Textiles Sales

This sector covers the process of making a film from an initial story idea or commission, through scriptwriting, shooting, editing, directing and distribution to an audience.

Film Production

This sector covers cash flow management, retirement planning, investment planning, risk management and insurance planning, tax planning and estate planning.

Financial Planning

This sector covers services provided by the finance industry, including conveyancing, credit management, mercantile agents and trustees. For qualifications relating to specific aspects of financial services, use the headings Accounting and Bookkeeping, Broking, Financial Planning, Insurance, Superannuation, or Workers Compensation.

Financial Services

This sector covers activities relating to fire fighting or rescue services. For qualifications relating specifically to fire prevention services, use the heading Fire Protection.

Fire and Rescue Services

This sector covers the installation, maintenance and repair of fire safety and security equipment.

Fire and Security

This sector covers activities which seek to prevent all types of fires.

Fire Protection

This sector covers management, conservation and preservation of fisheries resources, to ensure they are not endangered or over-exploited.

Fisheries Compliance

This sector covers fishing charter businesses.

Fishing Charter Operations

This sector covers catching marine life, controlling populations, and eradicating marine pests. The qualifications listed here provide basic entry into this sector.  For specialisations within this area, use the headings Aquaculture, Fisheries Compliance, Fishing Operations, or Fishing Charter Operations.

Fishing Industry

This sector covers the taking, catching or capturing of fish and other marine life.

Fishing Operations

This sector covers fitness activities in health and fitness clubs, gymnasiums, sports centres and community recreation organisations.

Fitness Industry

This sector covers the production of cut flowers and flower bulbs grown either in greenhouses or in the open.

Floriculture

This sector covers floral design or flower arranging, merchandising, and display and flower delivery.

Floristry

The food processing industry transforms agricultural and other substances into food and feed. Areas include: bottling and packaging, dairy product manufacturing, fruit and vegetable processing, oil and fat manufacturing, grain milling, cereal processing, bakery product manufacturing, sugar processing, confectionery manufacturing and other food and beverage product manufacturing.

Food Processing Industry

This sector covers the retail sale of all food items.

Food Processing Sales

This sector covers the methods and techniques used in information handling and retrieval by automatic means. For qualifications relating to specific aspects of information technology, use the headings Information Technology (Networking), Information Technology Programming, Information Technology Support Services, Multimedia Technology, Systems Analysis and Design, or Website and Database Development.

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