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What is the Canadian Experience Class?

The Canadian Experience Class (CEC) is a Category under Canada’s Temporary Foreign Workers Program. The Temporary Foreign Worker’s Program (TFWP) is a program the Canadian government offers to allow Canadian employers to hire foreign nationals. The goal of the TFWP is to help fill genuine and acute labour needs. The program is always reviewed in order to guarantee that the goal is fulfilled and that Canadians never feel and are never displaced.

Requirements of CEC:

• the applicant must plan to live outside of Quebec
• the applicant must have at least 12 months of full-time experience or the equivalent in part-time experience in Canada with the proper authorization in the three years prior to submitting an application
• the applicant must also meet a specific language requirement which either a Canadian Language Benchmark threshold of 5 or more depending on the job

Occupations that are not eligible:

• Administrative officers
• Administrative assistants
• Accounting technicians and bookkeepers
• Retail sales supervisors
• Food service supervisors
• Cooks

If the individual is eligible, he or she may then enter the Express Entry Pool.