Business Experience
Qualifications
Exploratory Visit | Business Experience | Business Intent | Preparing the Business Intent | Eligible Investments
Business Ownership or Senior Management Experience
You must have at least three years of full time work experience in the past five years either as a business owner or in a senior management role of a successful business. Your job title, place of employment, responsibilities and business skills must be described clearly in the resume and in the Manitoba Provincial Nominee Program Generic Application Form - Business (PNP-B APP). The application will be evaluated taking into consideration your business ownership and management experience, or your senior management experience or a combination of both.
Business Owner: As an entrepreneur, you must be engaged actively and on an ongoing basis in providing goods or services to customers. Also, as an entrepreneur, you should bear the risk of return for the capital investment in your business enterprise.
Being self employed does not qualify you as a business owner for the purposes of the Program. Some examples of small businesses where you would be considered self-employed include a home-based business with no or very few employees, an on-line business with low turnover, a street side vendor, a self-employed trades person, owner-operated transportation, self-employed professionals, such as doctors or dentists managing their clinic, or commission agents. The list is not exhaustive. We encourage you to review the requirements for Manitoba's Skilled Worker Program to see if you can apply under that program.
Senior Management Experience:
- If your application is based on Senior Management experience, you must demonstrate that you have had a role with significant decision-making responsibilities involving a minimum of two of the following aspects of business:
- You have occupied a position in the highest level of the management structure of a major business. In that position, you were responsible for the strategic policy development affecting a major component or a wide range of operations of that major business, and have done so for at least three of the past five years prior to applying.
- Distribution
- Production/Operations/Project management
- Purchasing
- Sales
- Marketing
- Finance
- Accounting
- Human Resources/Personnel
- Research and Development
- Information Technology management
- Quality Control
- In addition to the above, you should also demonstrate that your level of income is commensurate with the prevailing income level of senior managers of other major businesses in your country. You must clearly demonstrate this level of income through documentation.