Get a job offer

You’ll need to seek job opportunities with designated employers. For more information, check the provincial websites:

• New Brunswick
• Newfoundland and Labrador
• Nova Scotia
• Prince Edward Island

The job offer must meet all of these requirements:

• The job offer must be full time.
• The job offer must be non-seasonal. In general, this means you have consistent and regularly scheduled paid employment throughout the year.
• For NOC 2021 TEER 0, 1, 2, or 3 category job offers, the employer must be offering you a job that will last at least 1 year from the time you become a permanent resident.
• For NOC 2021 TEER 4 category job offers, the employer must be offering you permanent employment, that is, there is no set end date.
• The job offer cannot come from a company where you (the applicant) or your spouse or common-law partner are a majority owner.
• The job must be at the same skill level as, or higher than, the work experience that qualified you for the job (refer to the table below), unless you’re an international graduate from a recognized post-secondary institution in Atlantic Canada.
  • For certain health care sector jobs, you don’t need to have a job offer at the same skill level as, or higher than, the qualifying work experience.
    • Work experience in NOC 32101 (licensed practical nurses) and NOC 31301 (registered nurses) can be used as qualifying work experience if you have a job offer in NOC 33102 (nurse aides, orderlies and patient service associates) or NOC 44101 (home health care workers).

  NOC 2021 TEER job offer category and qualifying work experience requirement

  NOC 2021 TEER job offer category	Work experience requirement
  TEER 0	TEER 0, 1, 2, 3, 4
  TEER 1	TEER 1, 2, 3, 4
  TEER 2	TEER 2, 3, 4
  TEER 3	TEER 3, 4
  TEER 4	TEER 4

When a designated employer offers you a job, they’ll give you an Offer of Employment to a Foreign National form [IMM 0157] (PDF, 317 KB) . You must

• make sure you meet the employment requirements listed in the National Occupational Classification
• sign the form titled Offer of Employment to a Foreign National and keep a copy for your records
  • You’ll need this form when you work with a service provider organization on your settlement plan and for your permanent residence application.