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[edit] Introduction

• If you want to fast-track your entry to Canada by obtaining a temporary work permit (TWP), you essentially have to find a job that no Canadian resident wants.
• It's easier to accomplish that if you find out the regions of Canada that are experiencing labour shortages and the occupations that are affected by shortages.
• You can get some idea of the occupations that are in demand in various regions of Canada by looking at:
  • Occupations under Pressure lists - This is a particularly useful Wiki article to consult.
  • Expedited Labour Market Opinion Pilot Project (for Alberta and British Columbia)
  • Information Technology Workers
  • Provincial Nominee Programs

[edit] Caveat

• Just because an occupation appears on an Occupations under Pressure list does not necessarily mean that it's a desirable occupation to get into, however.
• Some of the Occupations under Pressure lists include fairly low paying, relatively unskilled occupations.
• This is because some booming parts of Canada, like Alberta, have a shortage of people with a pulse.
• Unskilled people, although they may be in demand, have a tough time earning enough money in a booming environment in which accommodation prices are high.
• Half the people in Calgary's homeless shelters have employment of some kind.
• A husband and wife who both are unskilled each need to hold down two jobs in order to keep a roof over their family's head.
• There are some more thoughts about this topic in the Wiki article entitled Where to live.
• Still, the OUP websites are a useful starting point for your research.

[edit] Example

• Here is an example of a hypothetical person who might use the information in this article to assist her in identifying the province that would make the most suitable destination for her.
• Mary is an executive assisant.
• When she started to think about migrating to Canada, her first thought was to move to Toronto, Ontario.
• Then someone referred her to this article, and she used the information here to test if it would be feasible to move to Toronto.
• Mary clicks on the link to the Wiki article on Provincial Nominee Programs (PNP). Once she's on that web page, she clicks on the link to Ontario's PNP. She then clicks on the link to Eligible Occupations. She finds Ontario's PNP has only a short list of eligible occupations, and executive assistant is not one of them.
• Mary clicks on the link to the next Wiki article, the one about Occupations under Pressure. She opens the links to the Occupation under Pressure lists for various provinces : Alberta, British Columbia, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Ontario and Quebec. After searching all of those OUP lists, she finds that British Columbia is the only one on which executive assistants are listed.
• Next Mary clicks on the link to the article called Expedited Labour Market Opinion Pilot Project. She finds that executive assistants are not listed there.
• Finally, Mary looks at the link called Information Technology Workers. She knows she isn't an information technology worker, but she opens the link, just in case. Her hunch is confirmed. Executive assistants are not listed on that web page.
• So, after going through this exercise, Mary has found only one province in which executive assistants appear on an Occupations under Pressure list, and that is the OUP list for British Columbia.
• Now Mary has to seriously consider whether or not Ontario really is a suitable destination for her and whether or not she should start exploring the idea of moving to British Columbia instead.
• Please note that this example, using the hypothetical person named Mary, was added to this article in February 2008. At that time British Columbia was indeed the only province whose Occupations under Pressure list included executive assistants. This potentially could change in future.