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Occupation List

For your convenience, we have included below, a complete list of occupation which the Government of Canada recognizes. Please note that some occupations listed below may be in greater demand than others

Just click on a letter to go directly to your specific occupation.

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A

Accounting and Related Clerks
Accountants
Actuaries
Administrative Clerks
Administrative Officers
Advertising and Marketing Consultants
Aerial Survey Technologists and Technicians
Aerospace Engineers
Agricultural Engineers
Agricultural Representatives, Consultants and Specialists
Air Traffic Controllers
Aircraft Electrical Mechanics and Technicians
Aircraft Inspectors
Aircraft Instrument Mechanics and Technicians
Aircraft Mechanics
Airline Station Agents
Air Transport Ramp Attendants
Airworthiness Inspectors
Animal Health Technologists
Animation Painters
Announcers and Other Broadcasters
Anthropologists
Applied Chemical Technicians
Applied Chemical Technologists
Appraisers
Arborists and Tree Service Technicians
Archaeologists
Architects
Archivists
Art Directors
Astronomers
Audio and Video Recording Technicians
Audiologists
Avionics Inspectors
Avionics Mechanics and Technicians

B

Bakers
Bank Clerks
Barbers
Biological Technicians
Biological Technologists
Biologists
Biomedical Engineers
Blacksmiths
Boat Assemblers
Boilermakers
Bookkeepers
Broadcast Technicians
By-Law Enforcement Officers

C

Cabinetmakers
Cable Television Maintenance Technicians
Cable Television Service Technicians
Cartographic Technologists and Technicians
Carvers
Chefs and Specialist Chefs
Chemical Engineers
Chemists
Civil Engineering Technicians
Civil Engineering Technologists
Civil Engineers
Clinical Perfusionists
Commercial Divers
Community and Social Service Workers
Community Pharmacists and Hospital Pharmacists
Computer Hardware Engineers
Computer Operators
Computer Programmers
Computer Systems Analysts
Conference and Event Planners
Conservation and Fishery Officers
Conservation and Restoration Technicians
Conservators
Construction Estimators
Construction Millwrights and Industrial Mechanics (Except Textile)
Contractors and Supervisors, Mechanic Trades
Cooks
Copy Stylists
Copywriters
Court Recorders
Craft Instructors
Creative Writers
Credit Managers
Curatorial Assistants

D

Dental Hygienists
Dental Laboratory Bench Workers
Dental Technicians
Denturists
Desktop Publishing Operator
Die Setters
Dietitians and Nutritionists
Directors
Directors of Photography
Drafting Technicians
Drafting Technologists
Driver's Licence Examiners
Driving Instructors
Dry Cleaning and Laundry Machine Operators

E

Economic Development Officers and Marketing Researchers and Consultants
Economists and Economic Policy Researchers and Analysts
Editorial Assistants and Publication Clerks
Editors
Education Policy and Researchers, Consultants and Program Officers
Electrical and Electronics Engineering Technicians
Electrical and Electronics Engineering Technologists
Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Electrical Mechanics
Electrical Power Line and Cable Workers
Electroencephalographic Technologists
Electromyography Technologists
Electronic Service Technicians (Household and Business Equipment)
Embalmers
Employment Counsellors
Engineering Physicists and Engineering Scientists
Executive Assistants
Executive Chefs
Exhibit Designers

F

Facility Operation Managers
Family, Marriage and Other Related Counsellors
Fashion Designers
Film and Video Camera Operators
Film Editors
Film, Television and Radio Producers
Financial and Investment Analysts
Financial Auditors
Financial Clerks
Financial Examiners and Inspectors
Financial Investigators
Financial Managers
Financial Planners
Firefighters
Fish and Fish Products Inspectors
Flight Dispatchers
Flight Engineers (Second Officers)
Floor Directors
Flying Instructors
Food Processing Engineers
Forestry Professionals
Forestry Technologists and Technicians
Funeral Directors
Furriers

G

Gaffers and Lighting Technicians
Geographers
Geographic Information System (GIS) Technologists and Technicians
Geological and Mineral Technicians
Geological and Mineral Technologists
Geological Engineers
Geologists, Geochemists and Geophysicists
Glass Blowers
Golf Course Superintendents
Grain Elevator Operators
Graphic Designers and Illustrating Artists
Grips
Gunsmiths

H

Hairstylists
Heavy-Duty Equipment Mechanics
Historians
Home Economists
Horticulturalists
Housing Policy Analysts

I

Image Consultants
Independent Paralegals
Industrial and Manufacturing Engineers
Industrial Designers
Industrial Electricians
Industrial Engineering and Manufacturing Technicians
Industrial Engineering and Manufacturing Technologists
Industrial Instrument Technicians and Mechanics
Industrial Pharmacists
Inspectors in Public and Environmental Health and Occupational Health and Safety
Inspectors, Weights and Measures
Insurance Adjusters
Insurance Claims Examiners
Insurance Clerks
Insurance Underwriters
Interior Designers
International Aid and Development Project Officers
Interpreters
Investment Underwriters

J

Jewellers and Related Workers
Journalists

K

Key Grips

L

Landscape Architects
Landscape Designers and Landscape Architectural Technicians and Technologists
Landscape Gardeners
Landscapers
Legal Assistants and Paralegals
Legal Secretaries
Lettering Artists
Librarians
Library and Archive Technicians and Assistants
Linguists
Loan Officers
Locksmiths

M

Machine Fitters
Machine Operators, Electrical Apparatus Manufacturing
Machining and Tooling Inspectors
Machinists
Major Appliance Repairers/Technicians
Make-Up Artists
Management Consultants
Marine and Naval Engineers
Materials Scientists
Mathematicians
Mechanical Engineering Technicians
Mechanical Engineering Technologists
Mechanical Engineers
Mechanical Repairers, Motor Vehicle Manufacturing
Medical Laboratory Technologists
Medical Secretaries
Medical Sonographers
Medical Transcriptionists
Metal Arts Workers
Metallurgical and Materials Engineers
Metallurgists
Meteorological Technicians
Meteorologists
Microbiologists and Cell and Molecular Biologists
Milliners
Mining Engineers
Motion Picture Projectionists
Motor Vehicle Body Repairers
Motor Vehicle Mechanics and Technicians
Motor Vehicles Defects Investigators
Motorcycle and Other Related Mechanics
Museum Extension Officers
Museum Guides and Interpreters
Museum Registrars and Cataloguers

N

Nondestructive Testers and Inspectors
Nuclear Medicine Technologists

O

Occupational Therapists
Oil and Gas Drilling, Servicing and Related Labourers
Operating Room Technicians
Orthopaedic Technologists
Other Professional Occupations in Therapy and Assessment
Other Repairers and Servicers
Other Small Engine and Equipment Mechanics
Other Workers in Motion Pictures, Broadcasting

P

Performing Arts
Paste-Up Artists
Patent Agents
Pathologists' Assistants
Patternmakers - Textile, Leather and Fur Products
Personnel and Recruitment Officers
Petroleum Engineers
Photogrammetric Technologists and Technicians
Photographers
Physicists
Physiotherapists
Pilots
Political Scientists
Potters
Power Station Operators
Power System Electricians
Power Systems Operators
Preparators
Probation and Parole Officers
Production Clerks
Professional Occupations in Public Relations and Communications
Program Leaders and Instructors in Recreation and Sport
Property Administrators
Props Persons and Set Dressers
Prosthetists and Orthotists
Psychologists
Psychometricians
Public Works Maintenance Equipment Operators
Purchasing Agents and Officers

R

Radiation Therapists
Radiography Technologists
Railway Accident Investigation Officers
Railway Carmen/women
Railway Locomotive Engineers
Railway Traffic Controllers
Record Producers
Recreational Vehicle Repairers
Refrigeration and Air Conditioning Mechanics
Remote Sensing Technologists and Technicians
Residential and Commercial Installers and Servicers
Respiratory Therapists
Retail and Wholesale Buyers
Retail Salespersons and Sales Clerks

S

Safe and Vault Servicers
Sales Representatives, Wholesale Trade (Non-technical)
School and Guidance Counsellors
Script Assistants
Seamstresses
Secretaries (Except Legal and Medical)
Sewing Instructors
Sheet Metal Workers
Shoe Repairers
Shoemakers
Sign Painters
Small Appliance Servicers and Repairers
Social Policy Researchers
Social Survey Researchers
Social Workers
Sociologists
Software Engineers
Soil Scientists
Sous-Chefs
Specialists in Human Resources
Speech-Language Pathologists
Stained Glass Artists
Stationary Engineers and Auxiliary Equipment Operators
Statisticians
Steamfitters and Pipefitters
Storekeepers and Parts Clerks
Stringed Instrument Makers
Structural Metal and Platework Fabricators and Fitters
Stunt Co-ordinators and Special Effects Technicians
Supervisors, Motor Transport and Other Ground Transit Operators
Survey Technicians
Switch Network Installers and Repairers

T

Tailors and Dressmakers
Taxidermists
Technical Sales Specialists, Wholesale Trade
Technical Writers
Telecommunications Equipment Technicians
Telecommunications Line and Cable Workers
Telecommunications Service Testers
Telephone Installers and Repairers
Terminologists
Textile Engineers
Textile Machinery Mechanics and Repairers
Theatre Designers
Tool and Die Makers
Traders
Trade Mark Agents
Translators
Transportation Route and Crew Schedulers
Travel Counsellors
Trust Officers

U

Upholsterers
Urban and Land Use Planners

V

Veterinarians

W

Wardrobe Supervisors
Watch Repairers
Welders

Y

Yard Locomotive Engineers

 

 
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   

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