NOC 65109: Other sales related occupations

Workers in other sales related occupations sell goods or services during home demonstrations or by telephone soliciting, retail exhibitions or street vending. They are employed by a wide range of retail and wholesale establishments, manufacturers, telemarketing companies and call centres, or they may be self-employed.

Express Entry eligibility

• Skilled work (TEER 0 to 3): no, TEER 5 does not count for Express Entry.
• Canadian Experience Class: does not count.
• Federal Skilled Worker Program: does not count.
• Federal Skilled Trades Program: not one of the eligible trades.
• High-wage occupation (from November 3, 2026): no. No high-wage add-on, and a job offer in it earns no CRS points.

TEER 5: Occupations that usually need short-term work demonstration and no formal education. Every program has other requirements too, such as language test results and, for FSW, a points test.

Category-based draws

NOC 65109 is not on any of IRCC’s occupation category lists. You can still be invited in general, Canadian Experience Class or other program draws if you qualify through other experience.

Category lists checked on canada.ca on 2026-10-17. IRCC category-based selection

CRS points for work in NOC 65109

None. Work in TEER 4 and 5 occupations earns no Canadian work points in the CRS.

See Canadian work points and the median-wage rule.

Main duties

This group performs some or all of the following duties:

• Demonstrators and direct distributors
• Contact potential customers by phone or through personal contacts
• Arrange sales demonstration appointments, and show, describe and sell goods or services at wholesale, retail and industrial establishments, at exhibitions, trade shows or directly to individual customers or at sales parties in private homes
• Deliver purchased goods to customers.
• Door-to-door salespersons and street vendors
• Solicit sales and sell merchandise to residents of private homes
• Set up and display merchandise on sidewalks or at public events to sell to the public.
• Telephone solicitors and telemarketers
• Contact businesses or private individuals, by telephone, to solicit sales for goods or services.

For Express Entry your duties must match the lead statement and most of the main duties above.

Example job titles

• canvasser - retail
• demonstrator - retail
• direct distributor - retail
• door-to-door salesperson
• home demonstrator - retail
• street vendor
• telemarketer
• telephone solicitor

Employment requirements

• Some secondary school education is usually required. A high school diploma may be required by some employers.
• Self-employed street vendors and door-to-door salespersons may require a municipal merchant's permit.

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