Career Paths for Skilled Immigrants
Career Paths helps you, an internationally skilled professional, connect your experience with BC job opportunities, providing guidance in various fields.
We offer this in Vancouver, Burnaby, New Westminster, or Cariboo North.
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Career Paths
This program supports you in continuing your career by connecting your international experience with job opportunities in BC.
We work with regulated professions, requiring an educational certificate and experience, and unregulated professions, not requiring a licence.
- Qualification evaluation and assistance with BC licenses.
- Help with joining regulatory bodies and professional associations.
- Funding for skills and courses to enhance your qualifications.
- Job search support tailored to your profession.
- Work placement opportunities and connections to employers across BC.
- Access to mentors who can guide you through the BC job market.
Why join Career Paths?
Receive support with BC licensing, joining professional associations, funding for skills training, tailored job search assistance, work placements, and access to mentors who guide you through the BC job market.
Eligibility Requirements: Who can join?
- Permanent resident within the past 10 years or a protected person.
- Hold at least one year of pre-arrival experience in construction, engineering or regulated occupations. For unregulated occupations, you need two years of pre-arrival experience (only one year is required if aged 19-30).
- A minimum CLB 5 for unregulated professions, or CLB 6 for regulated professions, as well as for construction, engineering, and IT (learn more here)
- Currently underemployed or unemployed.
Find answers to common questions about Career Paths
Get quick answers to frequently asked questions about Career Paths services, eligibility, application process, and how we support your career journey
Career Paths for Skilled Immigrants supports you in using your pre-arrival qualifications and experience to find a job in BC, including:
- Qualification evaluation and obtaining BC licenses.
- Regulatory body and association memberships.
- Skills and course funding.
- Job search, readiness coaching and support.
- Connections to BC employers.
- Access to BC mentors.
You can join if you are a permanent resident within the last 10 years or a protected person; has at least one (1) year of pre-arrival experience in the fields of Construction, Engineering and Technology or one (1) year of pre-arrival experience in regulated occupations, and two (2) years of pre-arrival experience in unregulated occupations (one year if you are 19-30 years of age), and are underemployed or unemployed.
You also need to have a minimum level of English, CLB 5 for unregulated professions and CLB 6 for regulated professions, as well as for construction, engineering, and IT.
To register, contact the program’s coordinator at careerpaths@issbc.org or call 604-375-2105 or 604-360-3574. You can also enroll now here, or if you have any further questions, please feel free to join our info session here.
Locations Available
You can access Career Paths at the following locations:
Languages Available
We provide services in multiple languages, including:
English
Additional languages (as needed)
Do you want to enroll or have questions?
Attend an online info session. Info sessions are offered every Tuesday from 12 p.m. to 1 p.m.
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“Discovering ISSofBC’s Career Paths program was a turning point. My career strategist crafted a tailored action plan, enhancing my technical skills through courses like Applied DevOps with Kubernetes and Back-End Web Development with Node.js. More than just skills, she emphasized the importance of networking and finding mentors…Thanks to ISSofBC, I not only found a job, but also gained the confidence to thrive in Canada’s competitive tech industry.”
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Funding Partners
The Governments of Canada and British Columbia fund the Career Paths for Skilled Immigrants program.
Government of British Columbia
Government of Canada
