Guides
Guides to SkillSelect EOI data
EOI Insights turns the SkillSelect Expression of Interest statistics into charts. These guides explain what each chart counts, how to read it, and — just as important — what it cannot tell you. Every guide links straight into the view it describes, so you can read and look at the same time.
Start with the concepts
Two guides carry the vocabulary the rest assume. What SkillSelect EOI data is explains why a month is a snapshot rather than a count of arrivals, and why some figures say under 20. Visas 189, 190 and 491 explains why the visa filter changes the underlying population rather than the colour of a line.
Ten minutes on those two makes every other guide shorter, and prevents the two mistakes that produce most of the confusion about SkillSelect numbers.
The full guide list
Thirty-six guides, one per view, grouped the way the dashboard is grouped.
Concepts
- What SkillSelect EOI data is — What an EOI is, what a month measures, and why some counts say under 20.
- Visas 189, 190 and 491 — Why 189, 190 and 491 are three separate pools.
Start here
- Watchlist — Your pinned occupations, with what changed since last time.
- Monthly Digest — The biggest rises and falls in the newest published month.
- My Outlook — Where a score sits in one pool, and how the EOI is ageing.
Your occupation
- Occupation Trends — Pool size for the occupations you pick, month by month.
- Monthly Flows — The same data as up and down bars: net change each month.
- Invite Activity — Pool size against how many EOIs hold an invitation.
- Alternatives — Occupations in the same family with smaller pools.
The wider field
- Stream Overview — A whole subclass by status, month after month.
- Top Occupations — The largest pools in a month you choose.
- Momentum — Which pools moved fastest over 3, 6 or 12 months.
- Invite Radar — Where invitation activity looked different from last month.
Points and states
- Points Pressure — Whether typical scores in the pool are drifting up.
- Invited vs Queue — Points profile of invited EOIs against those still waiting.
- State Mix — Pool share by nominated state on 190 and 491.
- Points Ladder — Where a score sits among submitted and invited EOIs.
- Australia Map — The nominated-state pool laid out geographically.
Deeper look
- Queue by Points — One occupation’s score histogram for one month.
- State × Occupation — Which jurisdictions one occupation’s EOIs named.
- State × Points — Jurisdiction against score, as a grid.
- How Old Is the Queue — When the EOIs in a pool were lodged.
- Invite Points Pattern — Invited and submitted scores for one occupation.
- State Strategy — Jurisdiction crowd size against invitation activity.
- State DNA — Which published traits were more common among invited EOIs.
- State Demand Mix — Which occupation groups fill one jurisdiction’s pool.
- Cohort Tracker — What happened to everyone who lodged in one month.
- Expiry Forecast — EOIs due to reach the two-year limit.
- Drill-Down — One occupation split by any published dimension.
Explore visually
- Bar-Chart Race — The Top Occupations ranking, animated.
- Queue Crowd — One pool drawn at human scale.
- Cohort River — One application month flowing through its outcomes.
- Fingerprints — Every occupation as a small 24-month disc.
- Bubble Field — Size is the pool, height is recent growth.
- Share Card — An exportable snapshot with its caveats attached.
About the numbers
- Methodology — Where the numbers come from and what you can quote.
In the dashboard
The guides are written to be read next to the product. Occupation Trends is the view the guest trial opens, and it is where most questions about a specific occupation get answered.
Open it in a second tab, keep this library in the first, and work through whichever guide matches what you are looking at.
The guest trial covers subclasses 189 and 190 plus five occupations. Subclass 491 and the deeper views ask you to sign in.
Using this library
Each guide follows the same shape: what the view shows, how to read it, what the number means, how to open it in the dashboard, notes for applicants and for migration professionals, and an honest list of what the view cannot tell you.
That last section is the one worth reading twice. Most misreadings of SkillSelect data come from asking a chart a question it was never able to answer.
Common questions
Which guide should I read first?
Start with what SkillSelect EOI data is, then visas 189, 190 and 491. Those two explain the vocabulary every other guide assumes, and together they take about ten minutes.
Do I need an account to follow these guides?
Not to start. The guest trial opens Occupation Trends, Monthly Flows and Top Occupations for subclasses 189 and 190 and for five occupations. The deeper views ask you to sign in.
What is the difference between the Guides and the Cyclopedia?
The Guides teach how to read each chart. The Cyclopedia explains the visas and the concepts behind them — what subclass 189 is, how the points test works, what an invitation round is.