Working in Canada Made Easy by Global Talent Stream

On June 12^th, 2018, The Global Talent Stream pilot program from Canada celebrated its one year anniversary. The program still continues, even after one year, to help Canadian businesses to employ highly skilled foreign workers, who will play an important role in helping Canada to maintain its position as a global leader in innovative technology.

A Significant Landmark

The Global Talent Stream is a two year pilot program. Employers in Canada can make use of this program to employ skilled foreign talent to fill important roles in their organization and businesses.

In case you have the skills that are in demand by a Canadian employer than your case for work permit will be processed faster, which means that you can come to Canada faster and start to work here quickly.

An employer, however, need to show to the Global Talent Stream, that lasting benefits will be created for Canadian labor market by employing foreign workers. This means that only top business houses get the approval to hire through the pilot program.

It should be noted here that only a number of occupations are eligible for this stream. Three new occupations were added to this list on the one year anniversary of the program on 12^th June 2018. These occupations include:

·         Engineering managers – NOC 0211

·         Mathematicians and Statisticians – NOC 2161

·         Architecture and Science Managers – NOC 0212

Once an individual acquires sufficient amount of work experience, he or she than becomes eligible to apply for Canadian permanent residence by way of the Canadian Experience Class of the federal Express Entry immigration system.

How does the Global Talent Stream work?

The Global Talent Stream forms part of the Temporary Foreign Worker Program (TFWP) from Canada. Canadian employers can hire highly skilled foreign workers through this program.

There are two categories under this program -

Category A

This category from the Global Talent Stream comes in use when an employer has been referred to the stream by one of the designated partners of GTS and some unique and specialized talent is hired by using this stream.

Category B

This category of the Global Talent Stream is used to employ highly skilled foreign talent to fill up positions for the occupations that are mentioned in the Global Talent Occupations list.

It should be noted here that only those candidates will be hired who fulfill the occupation requirement along with the requirement of minimum wage.