Skill Level A: professional jobs that usually call for a degree from a university, such as: doctors, dentists, and architects.Skill Type 0 (zero): management jobs, such as: restaurant managers, mine managers, and shore captains (fishing).

There are five NOC skill levels described on the Canadian government website: When assessing your application, IRCC will match your job duties with the NOC description to determine your occupation and whether or not it is skilled.

When it comes to Express Entry, the specific occupation does not matter as much as the skill level. Economic-class immigration programs are specifically designed to fill job vacancies with foreign talent to support Canada’s labour market, and long-term prosperity. Canada currently analyzes a job’s skill level using the 2016 National Occupational Classification (NOC).įor economic-class immigration, IRCC generally uses the NOC to evaluate how the work experience of a given immigration candidate will support the mandate of the immigration program they are applying for. Generally speaking, the more education and experience it takes to work in your position, the higher your occupational skill level will be. When Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) assesses your work experience, it looks at how much education is required of to do your job. Work experience only counts for Express Entry if it is considered “skilled” according to Canada’s occupation classification system.

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