Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) have published a list of occupations that are eligible for applications in the Express Entry program. This list is updated as at June 2018.
- Accommodation service managers
- Accommodation, travel, tourism and related services supervisors
- Accounting technicians and bookkeepers
- Actors and comedians
- Administrative assistants
- Administrative officers
- Administrators – post-secondary education and vocational training
- Advertising, marketing and public relations managers
- Aerospace engineers
- Agricultural and fish products inspectors
- Agricultural representatives, consultants and specialists
- Agricultural service contractors, farm supervisors and specialized livestock workers Contractors and supervisors, landscaping, grounds maintenance and horticulture services
- Air pilots, flight engineers and flying instructors
- Air traffic controllers and related occupations
- Aircraft instrument, electrical and avionics mechanics, technicians and inspectors
- Aircraft mechanics and aircraft inspectors
- Allied primary health practitioners
- Animal health technologists and veterinary technicians
- Announcers and other broadcasters
- Appliance servicers and repairers
- Architects
- Architectural technologists and technicians
- Architecture and science managers
- Archivists
- Artisans and craftspersons
- Assessors, valuators and appraisers
- Athletes
- Audio and video recording technicians
- Audiologists and speech-language pathologists
- Authors and writers
- Automotive service technicians, truck and bus mechanics and mechanical repairers
- Bakers
- Banking, credit and other investment managers
- Biological technologists and technicians
- Biologists and related scientists
- Boilermakers
- Bricklayers
- Broadcast technicians
- Business development officers and marketing researchers and consultants
- Butchers, meat cutters and fishmongers – retail and wholesale
- Cabinetmakers
- Cable television service and maintenance technicians
- Cardiology technologists and electrophysiological diagnostic technologist.
- Carpenters
- Central control and process operators, mineral and metal processing
- Chefs
- Chemical engineers
- Chemical technologists and technicians
- Chemists
- Chiropractors
- Civil engineering technologists and technicians
- Civil engineers
- Cleaning supervisors
- Coaches
- College and other vocational instructors
- Commissioned officers of the Canadian Forces
- Commissioned police officers
- Computer and information systems managers
- Computer engineers (except software engineers and designers)
- Computer network technicians
- Computer programmers and interactive media developers
- Concrete finishers
- Conductors, composers and arrangers
- Conference and event planners
- Conservation and fishery officers
- Conservators and curators
- Construction estimators
- Construction inspectors
- Construction managers
- Construction millwrights and industrial mechanics
- Contractors and supervisors, carpentry trades
- Contractors and supervisors, electrical trades and telecommunications occupations
- Contractors and supervisors, heavy equipment operator crews
- Contractors and supervisors, machining, metal forming, shaping and erecting trades and related occupations
- Contractors and supervisors, mechanic trades
- Contractors and supervisors, oil and gas drilling and services
- Contractors and supervisors, other construction trades, installers, repairers and servicers
- Contractors and supervisors, pipefitting trades
- Cooks
- Corporate sales managers
- Court officers and justices of the peace
- Court reporters, medical transcriptionists and related occupations
- Crane operators
- Customer and information services supervisors
- Customs, ship and other brokers
- Dancers
- Database analysts and data administrators
- Deck officers, water transport
- Dental hygienists and dental therapists
- Dental technologists, technicians and laboratory assistants
- Dentists
- Denturists
- Dietitians and nutritionists
- Drafting technologists and technicians
- Drillers and blasters – surface mining, quarrying and construction
- Early childhood educators and assistants
- Economists and economic policy researchers and analysts
- Editors
- Education policy researchers, consultants and program officers
- Educational counsellors
- Electrical and electronics engineering technologists and technicians
- Electrical and electronics engineers
- Electrical mechanics
- Electrical power line and cable workers
- Electricians (except industrial and power system)
- Electronic service technicians (household and business equipment)
- Elementary school and kindergarten teachers
- Elevator constructors and mechanics
- Employment counsellors
- Employment insurance, immigration, border services and revenue officers
- Engineer officers, water transport
- Engineering inspectors and regulatory officers
- Engineering managers
- Executive assistants
- Executive housekeepers
- Facility operation and maintenance managers
- Family, marriage and other related counsellors
- Film and video camera operators
- Financial and investment analysts
- Financial auditors and accountants
- Financial managers
- Financial sales representatives
- Fire chiefs and senior firefighting officers
- Firefighters
- Fishermen/women
- Fishing masters and officers
- Floor covering installers
- Food service supervisors
- Forestry professionals
- Forestry technologists and technicians
- Funeral directors and embalmers
- Gas fitters
- General practitioners and family physicians
- Geological and mineral technologists and technicians
- Geological engineers
- Geoscientists and oceanographers
- Glaziers
- Government managers – economic analysis, policy development and program administration
- Government managers – education policy development and program administration
- Government managers – health and social policy development and program administration
- Graphic arts technicians
- Graphic designers and illustrators
- Hairstylists and barbers
- Health information management occupations
- Health policy researchers, consultants and program officers
- Heavy-duty equipment mechanics
- Home building and renovation managers
- Human resources and recruitment officers
- Human resources managers
- Human resources professionals
- Industrial and manufacturing engineers
- Industrial designers
- Industrial electricians
- Industrial engineering and manufacturing technologists and technicians
- Industrial instrument technicians and mechanics
- Information systems analysts and consultants
- Information systems testing technicians
- Inspectors in public and environmental health and occupational health and safety
- Instructors of persons with disabilities
- Insulators
- Insurance adjusters and claims examiners
- Insurance agents and brokers
- Insurance underwriters
- Insurance, real estate and financial brokerage managers
- Interior designers and interior decorators
- Ironworkers
- Jewellers, jewellery and watch repairers and related occupations
- Journalists
- Judges
- Land survey technologists and technicians
- Land surveyors
- Landscape and horticulture technicians and specialists
Landscape architects - Lawyers and Quebec notaries
- Legal administrative assistants
- Legislators
- Librarians
- Library and public archive technicians
- Library, archive, museum and art gallery managers
- Licensed practical nurses
- Logging machinery operators
- Machine fitters
- Machinists and machining and tooling inspectors
- Managers – publishing, motion pictures, broadcasting and performing arts
- Managers in agriculture
- Managers in aquaculture
- Managers in customer and personal services.
- Managers in health care
- Managers in horticulture
- Managers in natural resources production and fishing
- Managers in social, community and correctional services
- Managers in transportation
- Manufacturing managers
- Massage therapists
- Mathematicians, statisticians and actuaries
- Mechanical engineering technologists and technicians
- Mechanical engineers
- Medical administrative assistants
- Medical laboratory technicians and pathologists’ assistants
- Medical laboratory technologists
- Medical radiation technologists
- Medical sonographers
- Metallurgical and materials engineers
- Meteorologists and climatologists
- Mining engineers
- Motor vehicle body repairers
- Motorcycle, all-terrain vehicle and other related mechanics
- Musicians and singers
- Natural and applied science policy researchers, consultants and program officers
- Non-commissioned ranks of the Canadian Forces
- Non-destructive testers and inspection technicians
- Nursing co-ordinators and supervisors
- Occupational therapists
- Oil and gas well drillers, servicers, testers and related workers
- Oil and solid fuel heating mechanics
- Opticians
- Optometrists
- Other administrative services managers
- Other business services managers
- Other financial officers
- Other instructors
- Other managers in public administration
- Other medical technologists and technicians (except dental health)
- Other performers.
- Other professional engineers.
- Other professional occupations in health diagnosing and treating
- Other professional occupations in physical sciences
- Other professional occupations in social science.
- Other professional occupations in therapy and assessment
- Other religious occupations
- Other services supervisors
- Other small engine and small equipment repairers
- Other technical and co-ordinating occupations in motion pictures, broadcasting and the performing arts
- Other technical occupations in therapy and assessment
- Other trades and related occupations.
- Painters and decorators (except interior decorators)
- Painters, sculptors and other visual artists
- Paralegal and related occupations
- Paramedical occupations
- Patternmakers – textile, leather and fur products
- Petroleum engineers
- Petroleum, gas and chemical process operators
- Pharmacists
- Photographers
- Physicists and astronomers
- Physiotherapists
- Plasterers, drywall installers and finishers and lathers
- Plumbers
- Police officers (except commissioned)
- Postal and courier services managers
- Post-secondary teaching and research assistants
- Power engineers and power systems operators
- Power system electricians
- Practitioners of natural healing
- Printing press operators
- Probation and parole officers and related occupations
- Producers, directors, choreographers and related occupations
- Professional occupations in advertising, marketing and public relations
- Professional occupations in business management consulting
- Professional occupations in religion
- Program leaders and instructors in recreation, sport and fitness
- Program officers unique to government
- Property administrators
- Psychologists
- Pulping, papermaking and coating control operators
- Purchasing agents and officers
- Purchasing managers
- Railway and yard locomotive engineers
- Railway Carmen/women
- Railway conductors and brakemen/women
- Railway traffic controllers and marine traffic regulators
- Real estate agents and salespersons
- Records management technicians
- Recreation, sports and fitness policy researchers, consultants and program officers
- Recreation, sports and fitness program and service directors
- Refrigeration and air conditioning mechanics
- Registered nurses and registered psychiatric nurses
- Respiratory therapists, clinical perfusionists and cardiopulmonary technologists
- Restaurant and food service managers
- Retail and wholesale buyers
- Retail and wholesale trade managers
- Retail sales supervisors
- Roofers and shinglers
- School principals and administrators of elementary and secondary education
- Secondary school teachers
- Securities agents, investment dealers and brokers
- Senior government managers and officials
- Senior managers – construction, transportation, production and utilities
- Senior managers – financial, communications and other business services
- Senior managers – health, education, social and community services and membership organizations
- Senior managers – trade, broadcasting and other services
- Setters
- Sheet metal workers
- Shoe repairers and shoemakers
- Social and community service workers
- Social policy researchers, consultants and program officers
- Social workers
- Software engineers and designers
- Specialist physicians
- Sports officials and referees
- Statistical officers and related research support occupations
- Steamfitters, pipefitters and sprinkler system installers
- Structural metal and platework fabricators and fitters
- Supervisors, electrical products manufacturing
- Supervisors, electronics manufacturing
- Supervisors, finance and insurance office workers
- Supervisors, food, beverage and associated products processing
- Supervisors, forest products processing
- Supervisors, furniture and fixtures manufacturing
- Supervisors, general office and administrative support workers
- Supervisors, library, correspondence and related information workers
- Supervisors, logging and forestry
- Supervisors, mail and message distribution occupations
- Supervisors, mineral and metal processing
- Supervisors, mining and quarrying
- Supervisors, motor transport and other ground transit operators
- Supervisors, motor vehicle assembling
- Supervisors, other mechanical and metal products manufacturing
- Supervisors, other products manufacturing and assembly
- Supervisors, petroleum, gas and chemical processing and utilities
- Supervisors, plastic and rubber products manufacturing
- Supervisors, printing and related occupations
- Supervisors, railway transport operations
- Supervisors, supply chain, tracking and scheduling co-ordination occupations
- Supervisors, textile, fabric, fur and leather products processing and manufacturing
- Support occupations in motion pictures, broadcasting, photography and the performing arts
- Tailors, dressmakers, furriers and milliners
- Technical occupations in geomatics and meteorology
- Technical occupations related to museums and art galleries
- Technical sales specialists – wholesale trade
- Telecommunication carriers managers
- Telecommunications installation and repair workers
- Telecommunications line and cable workers
- Theatre, fashion, exhibit and other creative designers
- Tool and die makers
- Translators, terminologists and interpreters
- Underground production and development miners
- University professors and lecturers
- Upholsterers
- Urban and land use planners
- User support technicians
- Utilities managers
- Veterinarians
- Water and waste treatment plant operators
- Water well drillers
- Web designers and developers
- Welders and related machine operators