NewtoPR said:
Hello Friends,
I will be applying for my ICT ( Work permit ) extension in first week of Jan. I heard there are few changes in terms of documents which now we need to provide. Do any one know what are those as compared to previous ICT process. I will be applying online and need to know so i can take from the employeer.
Thanks in Advance.
ICT is granted on basis of Specialized knowledge "To have specialized knowledge any ICT applicant would be required to demonstrate, on a balance of probabilities, a high degree of both proprietary knowledge and advanced expertise."
Proprietary knowledge is company-specific expertise related to a company’s product or services. It implies that the company has not divulged specifications that would allow other companies to duplicate the product or service.
Advanced proprietary knowledge would require an applicant to demonstrate:
uncommon knowledge of the host firm’s products or services and its application in international markets; or
an advanced level of expertise or knowledge of the enterprise’s processes and procedures such as its production, research, equipment, techniques or management.
An advanced level of expertise is also required, which would require specialized knowledge gained through significant (i.e. the longer the experience, the more likely the knowledge is indeed “specialized”) and recent (i.e. within the last 5 years) experience with the organization and used by the individual to contribute significantly to the employer’s productivity.
In assessing such expertise or knowledge, officers consider:
abilities that are unusual and different from those generally found in a particular industry and that cannot be easily transferred to another individual in the short-term;
the knowledge or expertise must be highly unusual both within the industry and within the host firm;
it must be of a nature such that the applicant’s proprietary knowledge is critical to the business of the Canadian branch and a significant disruption of business would occur without the applicant’s expertise; and
the applicant’s proprietary knowledge of a particular business process or methods of operation must be unusual, not widespread across the organization, and not likely to be available in the Canadian labour market.
Example: Skill in implementing an off-the-shelf product would not, by itself, meet the standard of specialized knowledge; unless, for example, the product is new or being highly customized to the point of being a “new” product. In other words, an ICT applicant is more likely to have truly specialized knowledge if they directly contribute to the (re)development of a product, rather than to the implementation of a pre-existing product.
Your employer should give solid documentation to prove above .
