Job offer requirements

As an employer, you must ensure that the job you’re offering is

• Full time
• Non-seasonal
• At least 1 year in duration (1 year from the time the candidate becomes a permanent resident) if you’re offering a NOC 0, A, or B level job
• A permanent position if you’re offering a NOC C level job
• Unless they are an international student who has graduated from an accredited post-secondary school in Atlantic Canada, they must possess skills that are at least comparable as the job experience that qualifies them for the position (see the table below).
• You are also not required to have a job offer that is at the same skill level as or higher than the required work experience for several careers in the health care industry.
• Work experience in NOC 3233 (practical nurses) and NOC 3012 (registered nurses) can be used as qualifying work experience if you have a job offer in NOC 3413 (nurse aides, orderlies and patient service associates) or NOC 4412 (home health care workers).

Candidate Requirements

Work experience

You must have worked a minimum of 1,560 hours during the previous five years. If you worked 30 hours each week for a year, you would have put in this amount of time.

The National Occupational Classification (NOC) skill level for this activity should be one of these.

• NOC Skill Type 0 (management jobs such as restaurant managers, line managers)
• NOC Skill Level A (professional jobs that usually need a degree from a university, such as doctors, dentists, architects)
• NOC Skill Level B (technical jobs and skilled trades such as chefs, electricians, plumbers)
• NOC Skill Level C (intermediate jobs that usually call for high school and/or job-specific training, such as industrial butchers, long-haul truck drivers, food and beverage servers)

Your work experience must include

• The actions in the description of your NOC
• Most of the main duties of your NOC

International graduates

You do not need to meet the work experience requirements if you’re an international graduate who

• Has a degree, diploma, certificate, or trade or apprenticeship certification that
  • Took at least 2 years of studies
  • Is from a recognized post-secondary institution in 1 of the 4 Atlantic provinces (New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, or Newfoundland and Labrador)
• Was a full-time student for the entire time you were studying
• Lived in one of the following provinces for at least 16 months during the last 2 years before you graduated
  • New Brunswick
  • Nova Scotia
  • Newfoundland and Labrador or
  • Prince Edward Island
• Had the visa or permit you needed to work, study or get training while you were in Canada

Educational requirements

You must have one of these:

• If you have a job offer at the NOC 0 or A skill type or level, you must have a Canadian one-year post-secondary educational credential or higher, or the equivalent outside Canada.
• You need to hold a Canadian high school diploma, or its equivalent outside of Canada, if you have a job offer at the NOC B or C skill level.

Language requirements

You must meet the minimum language requirements based on the NOC category that applies to your job offer. This can either be the

The minimum language requirements for each NOC category are

• CLB/NCLC 5 for NOC 0, A and B
• CLB/NCLC 4 for NOC C