An applicant with 12 years' experience split across insurance and banking (CRS 340, SINP 68, NOC 1212) wanted to also target Alberta — where only banking NOCs seemed in demand — and asked whether to create a second Express Entry profile with a different NOC. The thread's answers:
- One person, one Express Entry profile. Members were clear: IRCC allows only one EE profile at a time, filed under the single most suitable primary NOC. Creating parallel profiles with different NOCs is not permitted.
- Alberta doesn't publish a demand list anyway. A member corrected the premise: Alberta (AINP) does not reveal its in-demand occupation list and applies its own internal criteria when sending Notifications of Interest — so tailoring a profile to a guessed Alberta list is misguided.
- Select 'all provinces' and let NOIs come to you. The practical advice: in the Express Entry profile, choose all provinces/territories as destinations of interest; provinces like Alberta pull candidates directly from the pool and send NOIs based on their own criteria.
- Weigh where your real chances are. Members prompted the poster to compare realistic odds — a SINP score of 68 versus waiting on Alberta's opaque selection — rather than splitting effort across profiles.