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Free tool · Canadian Armed Forces

What your trade is called on civvy street

For Canadian Armed Forces members and veterans, Regular and Reserve Force, all elements. Type your trade name, abbreviation, or MOSID and see the civilian occupations your experience maps to. No signup, no cost. It takes about ten seconds.

Runs on MNET, the official DND/ESDC military-to-civilian equivalency data, joined to the NOC 2021 occupation catalogue.

Part of a name works: typing tech or engineer lists everything close.

Where this data comes from

The occupation matches come from MNET, the Military Occupation to National Occupation Equivalency Tool, maintained by the Department of National Defence with Employment and Social Development Canada, joined to the NOC 2021 occupation catalogue. You can look your trade up there yourself. The readings built on top of that mapping are Job Scout’s own. Job Scout was built by a CAF veteran.

There are other good translators out there, and you should use them too. Here is the whole field, with links.

In the US military? The US tool is here.