Hi Jo, hope you are doing well.
I am now looking into the documents to prepare my application. Is it possible for you to share me the experience writing your employment verification letter?
I am thinking about showing my supervisor the 1123 NOC page, but I am afraid the way they describe the main duties will confuse her. Other than that, do I need to explain the nature of the job? (like I work as an external employer from out of the country, and I don’t need to be at the work place physically, etc).
Any other thing that I should pay attention to? Please advise me.
Thank you very much
Hi Hannah, good to hear from you
So what I did was I emailed my previous manager (I used a previous job, not my current job) and explained what I needed with bullet points. So - dates of employment, salary, job title...I also provided answers for these, in case he did not want to spend time looking through records (but of course I said he could always verify the information to make sure it's correct).
Then I did my best to explain the concept of the NOC a bit and how my job is considered to be part of a much wider professional area, including public relations and marketing and how IRCC expects to see certain duties listed in the employment letter. I then emailed him a link to the 1123 NOC duties and outlined the wording that was most suitable for my role. He sent me the draft letter before finalizing it to make sure I was happy with everything.
He pretty much wrote a very "to the point" employment letter, listing all the IRCC requirements and adding a sentence at the end to say they can contact him if they require further information.
I'm not sure what to advise regarding the nature of the job, as this was not my case. Basically, I just stuck to exactly what IRCC required. This page gives you the exact requirements for the employment letter:
https://www.canada.ca/en/immigration-refugees-citizenship/corporate/publications-manuals/operational-bulletins-manuals/permanent-residence/express-entry/applications-received-on-after-january-1-2016-completeness-check.html#s03
Hope this helps? If you are comfortable with giving me your email address (in a private conversation, not necessarily on the forum), I would love to keep in touch, especially since you are working in the same field as me and it's really rare to come across someone else in this area of work
Best of luck with your application!