A bank employee with 6 years at the same company — promoted to an officer/managerial role (then-NOC 0122) in September 2022 after ~5 years in a lower role — asked whether to claim 1 or 6 years of experience in the Express Entry profile.
How members untangled it (NOC codes shown are the pre-TEER 2016 system — map to current codes, but the logic is unchanged):
- Enter each role separately. The profile should list the pre-promotion position and the managerial position as distinct entries, because the job title and NOC differ. Don't collapse 6 years under the current NOC.
- Experience counts by NOC, not by employer. As one member put it precisely: experience under the managerial NOC (0122) was 1 year; the earlier ~5 years belonged to the previous role's NOC (a clerical code in this case). Tenure with the company is irrelevant to the split.
- Whether the older years still help depends on their skill level. If the pre-promotion role was itself skilled (then NOC 0/A/B; now TEER 0–3), those years count as skilled work experience too — just under their own NOC entry. If it was a lower-skill code, those years may not contribute to CRS points.
- Your 'primary' NOC is your current/main occupation. The applicant's current NOC for the profile was the managerial one, even with only 1 year in it.
Practical takeaway: promotions split your history. One employer, two NOCs, two entries — each with its own reference letter stating title, dates, and duties, so the claimed split is verifiable.