- Work experience for Canada Express Entry only counts if it is classified as "skilled" under Canada's occupational classification system. The greater your occupational skill level, the more education, and experience you'll need to do your job.
- The Federal Skilled Worker Program (FSWP) uses a point system to evaluate applicants. Work experience, language competency, and education criteria must all be met in order to qualify. You can complete this requirement in a variety of ways, including working full-time for a year or part-time.
- People with work experience in Canada are eligible for the Canadian Experience Class (CEC). You must have worked full-time in a skilled occupation for at least one year.
- Candidates for the Federal Skilled Trades Program (FSTP) must also have a certain level of language proficiency.
When it comes to Canada Express Entry, the specific occupation does not matter as much as the skill level. Canada currently analyzes a job's skill level using the 2016 National Occupational Classification (NOC) IRCC will match your job duties with the NOC description to determine your occupation and whether or not it is skilled. When Immigration, Refugees, and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) assess your work experience, it looks at how much education is required to do your job.
On the Canadian government's website, there are five NOC competence levels:
Management positions, such as restaurant managers, mine managers, and shore captains, are Skill Type 0 (zero).
Professional vocations that often require a university degree, such as doctors, dentists, and architects, are classified as Skill Level A.
Chefs, plumbers, and electricians are examples of technical vocations and skilled trades that typically require a college diploma or apprenticeship training are categorized as Skill Level B.
Intermediate jobs, such as industrial butchers, long-haul truck drivers, and food and beverage servers, normally require a high school diploma and/or job-specific training fall under Skill Level C.
Fruit pickers, cleaning staff, and oil field employees are examples of skill level D employment that provide on-the-job training.
Only jobs that fall within skill types 0, A, and B are deemed "skilled" for the purposes of Canada Express Entry to be qualified for one of the three Express Entry-managed Canada immigration programs, you must have relevant job experience. "Full-time" is defined by the IRCC as 30 hours per week. You can work more or less than 15 hours per week for part-time work as long as it totals 1,560 hours.
Canada's Immigration and Refugee Council (IRCC) assesses your application on a points system specific to the Federal Skilled Worker Program. At a minimum, you need at least one year of skilled work experience within the past 10 years. Part-time work counts as long as it adds up to the minimum number of hours. Self-employment in Canada does not count.
Experience | Maximum 15 points |
1 year | 9 |
2-3 years | 11 |
4-5 years | 13 |
6 or more years | 15 |
If you have at least one year of full-time, competent job experience in Canada, you can earn an extra ten points for "adaptability."
People with work experience in Canada are eligible for the Canadian Experience Class (CEC). You must have worked full-time in a skilled occupation in Canada for at least one year to meet the work experience requirement for the Canadian Entry Certificate (CEC). Work that you did as a self-employed person or while studying in Canada does not count. You must also demonstrate a minimal level of language proficiency, among other requirements.
Skilled trade personnel is eligible for the Federal Skilled Trades Program (FSTP). To meet the work experience requirement, you must have worked full-time in a skilled trade for at least two years in the five years before applying. On your application, you must also meet the work standards for the skilled trade.
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