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NOC – Definition and immigration handbook
Nowadays, NOC term is so popular to become a new standard for immigrating candidate’s compatibility assessment related to careers, competencies and working experience. Thus, what is NOC and why does it become so crucial to determine your immigration possibilities ?
What is an NOC code?
Canada has released a list of various occupations used to assess the immigrating eligibility which is abbreviated as NOC ( National Occupational Classification ).
The list contains several rankings classified by the job’s description, responsibilities and characteristics dependently.
It is used by many governmental agencies for Canadian labor market statistics and analysis ( including Immigrants, Refugees, Citizenship Canada)
Additionally, it is such a helpful hand for employees to search for their suitable occupations and employers seeking for candidates to fill their vacant positions.
NOC categories
To specifically and situationally customize for immigrating candidates, NOC is divided into five different categories based on the nature of classified occupations
- Skill type 0: Management Jobs includes : restaurant managers, factory managers,…
- Skill type A: Specialists, required master degree at least includes : doctors, dentists, engineers,…
- Skill type B: Skilled or Crafting Workers, requires college degrees includes : chefs, electric engineers, plumbers,…
- Skill type C: Basic Skilled Workers, requires high school certificates or vocational certificates includes : truck drivers, servers,…
- Skill type D Manual Labor Jobs includes : farmers, cleaners,…
Skilled Workers is a more and more common path for foreigners to immigrate to Canada these days with medium standards compared to others which can get immigration “package” for your family.
Therefore, you just need to pay attention to NOC – one of the most crucial requirements which define your total.
The “prior” NOC categories for immigration :
|
NOC |
TITLE |
SKILL LEVEL OR TYPE |
|
0111 |
Financial managers |
0 |
|
0112 |
Human resources managers |
0 |
|
0211 |
Engineering managers |
0 |
|
0124 |
Advertising, marketing and public relations managers |
0 |
|
0631 |
Restaurant and food service managers |
0 |
|
3012 |
Registered nurses and registered psychiatric nurses |
A |
|
3112 |
General practitioners and family physicians |
A |
|
1112 |
Financial and investment analysts |
A |
|
2147 |
Computer engineers (except software engineers and designers) |
A |
|
4032 |
Elementary school and kindergarten teachers |
A |
|
4214 |
B |
|
|
6313 |
Accommodation, travel, tourism and related services supervisors |
B |
|
1241 |
B |
|
|
7237 |
Welders and related machine operators |
B |
|
3233 |
Licensed practical nurses |
B |
|
1431 |
Accounting and related clerks |
C |
|
4411 |
Home child care providers |
C |
|
4412 |
Home support workers, housekeepers and related occupations |
C |
|
7511 |
Transport truck drivers |
C |
|
8411 |
Underground mine service and support workers |
C |
|
6711 |
Food counter attendants, kitchen helpers and related support occupations |
D |
|
7621 |
Public works and maintenance labourers |
D |
|
6741 |
Dry cleaning, laundry and related occupations |
D |
|
6611 |
Cashiers |
D |
|
9618 |
Labourers in fish and seafood processing |
D |
You can also check up online for your specialized occupation by the link below: https://www.canada.ca/en/immigration-refugees-citizenship/services/immigrate-canada/express-entry/eligibility/find-national-occupation-code.html
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