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MapleMoose

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Hi everyone, in Federal Skilled Workers, I saw that the work experience must be minimum 1 year full time "in the same job".

Does this mean, even if we work 11 months 3 times, we are not eligible to appyle for EE? This sounds quite stupid, anything can happen with any job that would require you to stop working.

I am planning to come as a masters student and hopefully stay in to work and get PR but such details are killing me, popping out of nowhere making things close to impossible.

Did I understand the requirement correctly? Unless you have a 1 year job at the same place without any interruption, does it not matter your total experience?
 
MapleMoose said:
Hi everyone, in Federal Skilled Workers, I saw that the work experience must be minimum 1 year full time "in the same job".

Does this mean, even if we work 11 months 3 times, we are not eligible to appyle for EE? This sounds quite stupid, anything can happen with any job that would require you to stop working.

I am planning to come as a masters student and hopefully stay in to work and get PR but such details are killing me, popping out of nowhere making things close to impossible.

Did I understand the requirement correctly? Unless you have a 1 year job at the same place without any interruption, does it not matter your total experience?

Where did you see that work experience must be in the same job ?

CIC says that 1 year of work experience must be "continuous". So if you finish 1 job and immediately start the next job, that's fine. But if there is a gap between periods of employment, that will be a problem.
 
http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/immigrate/skilled/apply-who.asp

here there is a requirement which says 'in the same job'.

Did I misunderstand it?
 
MapleMoose said:
http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/immigrate/skilled/apply-who.asp

here there is a requirement which says 'in the same job'.

Did I misunderstand it?

Your confusion is understandable. Here it means the same occupation (same NOC code...). To be eligible under the FSW program, the employment has to be "continuous" - vaguely meaning a "short break" is permitted between jobs if you change employers, but recently someone was refused when that "short break" was one month, so one month is apparently too long.

If you come to Canada and gain work experience in Canada, the good news is that the "continuous" employment requirement does not apply to Canadian experience.
 
jes_ON said:
Your confusion is understandable. Here it means the same occupation (same NOC code...). To be eligible under the FSW program, the employment has to be "continuous" - vaguely meaning a "short break" is permitted between jobs if you change employers, but recently someone was refused when that "short break" was one month, so one month is apparently too long.

If you come to Canada and gain work experience in Canada, the good news is that the "continuous" employment requirement does not apply to Canadian experience.


Thank you for the clarification, it looked nonsense anyways but you never know!!

So as far as I know, the continuity requirement was removed for Canada experience like you said, so the total experience should be calculated. Yet is this not the case for foreign experience?
 
jes_ON said:
Your confusion is understandable. Here it means the same occupation (same NOC code...). To be eligible under the FSW program, the employment has to be "continuous" - vaguely meaning a "short break" is permitted between jobs if you change employers, but recently someone was refused when that "short break" was one month, so one month is apparently too long.

If you come to Canada and gain work experience in Canada, the good news is that the "continuous" employment requirement does not apply to Canadian experience.

Hi,

I have foreign work experience under 2 different NOC. When asked for years of work experience should I put both or one?
 
Hey All ,

I am stuck in a situation and need some help. I have more than a years experience in one organization but the experience is around 1 year old . Post a 9 month gap i joined another organization. Is it okay if i use my first company with more than a years experience as my primary NOC and use my current company as the secondary NOC ?

Are there are any issues if the primary NOC is more than a year old ?

All suggestions are welcome .

Thanks & Regards,
Max