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Building a Career in Canada: credentials, networking and mentors

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Education only, based on official Government of Canada (canada.ca, Job Bank) and Ontario (ontario.ca) pages. Rules, programs and numbers change, and many depend on your province or territory and your immigration status. Ontario is used as the provincial example; other provinces have their own rules. This course is not immigration, legal or career-placement advice. For your own case, check the official page and ask an authorized professional (a lawyer, a paralegal where allowed, or a regulated immigration consultant).

What you'll be able to do
  • Find your occupation's NOC code and TEER category and read its Job Bank wages and 3-year outlook.
  • Map your credentials: regulated, partly regulated or not regulated, and what proof each path needs.
  • Choose a bridging program and workplace language training, and know how to check eligibility and funding.
  • Build a professional network with volunteering, informational interviews and LinkedIn.
  • Find a mentor and be a good mentee.
  • Know Ontario's 2026 job-posting rules, including the ban on "Canadian experience" requirements in many job ads.
  • Write a 3-year career plan with yearly milestones and a review routine.
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Your career map: NOC, TEER and Job Bank data

In simple words

Before a long trip you look at a map: where you are, where you want to go and how long it takes. Your career needs a map too. In Canada, every job has a code and a page full of facts that help you draw that map.

Key facts
  • Before this course: Settling in Canada: first year housing, tax basics and healthcare (course 8.5.2). You should already know whether your job is regulated, how to find its regulatory body and how the Foreign Credential Recognition process starts. In course 8.5 you searched Job Bank and made a Canadian-style resume. This course builds the next 3 years of your career and does not repeat those steps.
  • The National Occupational Classification (NOC) is Canada's system for grouping jobs by training, education, experience and responsibilities. Canada switched to NOC 2021 on November 16, 2022 (canada.ca, page modified 2025). Each occupation has a five-digit code, for example 72536 for gas fitters.
  • TEER stands for training, education, experience and responsibilities. NOC 2021 has six TEER categories:
TEERWhat the occupation usually needs
0Management occupations
1A university degree
2A college diploma, apprenticeship of 2 or more years, or a supervisory job
3A college diploma, apprenticeship under 2 years, or more than 6 months of on-the-job training
4A high school diploma or several weeks of on-the-job training
5Short-term work demonstration and no formal education
  • To confirm your NOC, check that the main duties on the NOC site match your real job, not only the job title.
  • Job Bank labour market information (checked 2026-11-12) includes: job profiles (duties, typical wages, skills and education), wage reports (low, median and high wages by region, updated yearly) and outlook reports (job prospects for the next 3 years, by region, updated yearly).
  • Your map has three points: where you are now (your current job), your target job and bridge jobs in between.
Step by step
  1. Write at the top of a page: "Before this course: Settling in Canada (course 8.5.2)." Copy your regulator name or "not regulated" from that course.
  2. Open the NOC site and search your target job title. Choose NOC 2021.
  3. Compare the main duties with your experience. Write the five-digit code and the TEER category.
  4. Open Job Bank, search the same occupation and your city or region.
  5. Write the low, median and high wage, and the 3-year outlook for your region.
  6. Repeat steps 2 to 5 for one bridge job (a related job you could do sooner).
  7. Draw your map: now, bridge job, target job.
  8. Check: you have two NOC codes, two wage ranges, two outlooks and a dated note of where you found them.
Watch on YouTube
What is Job Bank?Employment and Social Development Canada · YouTube · youtube.com

Videos by other creators on YouTube, for reference. They are not made by or affiliated with The Future Market.

LESSON 01Your career map: NOC, TEER and Job Bank data
LESSON 01 / ANIMATED LESSON / AI VOICE00:00 / 01:00
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[Host] "A career plan needs a map. Canada gives you the data for free."
[Screen: NOC search page] "Find your job's NOC code. Check the duties, not just the title."
[Text on screen: TEER 0 to 5] "The TEER category tells you how much training the job usually needs."
[Screen: Job Bank wage and outlook page] "On Job Bank, look at wages in your region and the outlook for the next three years."
[Host] "Do it for your target job and for a bridge job you can get sooner."
Try it now

Complete the map for your target job and one bridge job: NOC code, TEER, wage range and 3-year outlook for your region, with the date you checked.

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I'm learning "Building a Career in Canada: credentials, networking and mentors" on The Future Market. Lesson 1: "Your career map: NOC, TEER and Job Bank data".

What the lesson teaches:
- Before this course: Settling in Canada: first year housing, tax basics and healthcare (course 8.5.2). You should already know whether your job is regulated, how to find its regulatory body and how the Foreign Credential Recognition process starts. In course 8.5 you searched Job Bank and made a Canadian-style resume. This course builds the next 3 years of your career and does not repeat those steps.
- The National Occupational Classification (NOC) is Canada's system for grouping jobs by training, education, experience and responsibilities. Canada switched to NOC 2021 on November 16, 2022 (canada.ca, page modified 2025). Each occupation has a five-digit code, for example 72536 for gas fitters.
- TEER stands for training, education, experience and responsibilities. NOC 2021 has six TEER categories:
- TEER - What the occupation usually needs
- 0 - Management occupations
- 1 - A university degree
- 2 - A college diploma, apprenticeship of 2 or more years, or a supervisory job

The exercise I'm working on:
Complete the map for your target job and one bridge job: NOC code, TEER, wage range and 3-year outlook for your region, with the date you checked.

I'm stuck. Please:
1. Explain the main idea in plain, simple words with one everyday example.
2. Walk me through the exercise one small step at a time. Ask me what I've done so far before giving the next step.
3. Don't just give me the final answer. Help me do it myself, and check my work when I share it.
I'm a parent helping my child (about 8 years old) with a lesson called "Your career map: NOC, TEER and Job Bank data" from the course "Building a Career in Canada: credentials, networking and mentors".

Here's what the lesson says:
Before a long trip you look at a map: where you are, where you want to go and how long it takes. Your career needs a map too. In Canada, every job has a code and a page full of facts that help you draw that map.

The activity:
Complete the map for your target job and one bridge job: NOC code, TEER, wage range and 3-year outlook for your region, with the date you checked.

Please explain this so an 8-year-old understands: short sentences, a fun everyday example, and no hard words.
Then give me 3 simple questions I can ask my child to check they understood, and a way to do the activity together, one tiny step at a time.
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My notes
02

Map your credentials

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03

Bridging programs and workplace language

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04

Build a professional network

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05

Find a mentor and be a great mentee

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06

Job ads, "Canadian experience" and internships

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07

Your 3-year career plan

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Final project

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Quiz

  1. What does NOC stand for?

  2. What does TEER describe?

  3. How many years do Job Bank outlook reports cover?

  4. What are the three credential paths?

  5. Who decides for a non-regulated job?

  6. What language level does the Ontario Bridge Training Program ask for?

  7. Who can take LINC or CLIC classes at no cost, according to canada.ca?

  8. What is an informational interview?

  9. Name two benefits of volunteering from canada.ca.

  10. Can a mentor give you immigration advice?

  11. From January 1, 2026, what can Ontario employers with 25 or more employees not put in a public job ad?

  12. How often should you review your 3-year plan?

EX

Final exam

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CE

Certificate

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