A chemical engineer with CRS 379 was told PNP was the realistic path and asked whether to claim NOC 2134 (Chemical Engineer) or NOC 9212 (Supervisor, petroleum/gas/chemical processing) as the primary NOC. The thread's guidance:
- Pick the NOC by matching your actual job duties, not by which code seems luckier in draws. The clearest answer in the thread: read the duty lists for both codes and choose the one your reference letters genuinely support. Claiming a NOC your documented duties don't match risks refusal later, which outweighs any draw-odds advantage.
- Don't let licensing worries drive the NOC choice. The poster was tangled up in whether P.Eng/APEGS certification (needed to practice as an engineer in Canada) affected the NOC selection. Licensing is a post-landing employment matter, separate from which NOC describes your past experience.
- Get licensing questions answered at the source. For Saskatchewan specifically, a member advised contacting the APEGS office in Regina directly to clarify what can be done before landing versus after.
- Keep improving CRS in parallel. The poster was already retaking IELTS — with a base CRS of 379, better language scores plus a provincial nomination is the realistic combination.
(NOC codes cited are the pre-2022 NOC system; the structure has since changed to NOC 2021/TEER, but the match-your-duties principle is unchanged.)