Canada recently conducted its first Express Entry draw for senior managers with Canadian work experience, granting 250 Invitations to Apply (ITAs) at a minimum Comprehensive Ranking System (CRS) score of 429.
This article explores hypothetical scenarios of potential candidates who could have received invitations.
Exploring Entry to Canada via Intra-Company Transfer Work Permit
Meet Anna Bure, a 37-year-old professional from Poland specializing in logistics and transportation management for a prominent freight company.
With 12 years of managerial experience, she was eventually promoted to the role of director of logistics for the company’s North American operations (NOC 00015).
Anna transitions to the Canadian office through an Intra-Company Transfer work permit, where she serves in this capacity for a year.
She holds a bachelor’s degree in supply chain management from outside Canada and possesses advanced English proficiency (CLB 9).
Having accumulated over a year of Canadian work experience in a senior leadership position, let’s examine her CRS score:
| CRS scoring factor | Anna’s qualification | Anna’s score |
| Core points | ||
| Age | 37 | 66 |
| Education | Bachelor’s degree | 120 |
| Official language proficiency (English) | CLB9 | 124 |
| Official language proficiency (French) | NA | 0 |
| Canadian work experience | 1 year | 40 |
| Skill transferability | ||
| Post-secondary degree + Language ability | Bachelor’s degree + CLB 9 | 25 |
| Canadian work experience + post-secondary degree | 1 year of Canadian work experience + Bachelor’s degree | 13 |
| Foreign work experience + Language proficiency | 12 years of foreign work experience + CLB 9 | 50 |
| Foreign work experience + Canadian work experience | 12 years of foreign work experience + 1 year of Canadian work experience | 25 |