Salience is an independent newcomer career platform — resume conversion, LMIA employer intelligence, and job search tools. Free, transparent, and built by someone who understands what it's like to start over.
Canada welcomes over 400,000 newcomers every year. Most arrive with world-class education and years of professional experience. According to Statistics Canada, immigrants are more likely to hold a university degree than Canadian-born citizens — yet their unemployment rate remains significantly higher, especially in the first five years.
The problem isn't talent. It's translation. Canadian employers expect achievement-language bullets, NOC-aligned job titles, Canadian formatting conventions, and no personal information on the resume. An international CV that lists a home address, a photo, date of birth, marital status — these trigger unconscious bias or get auto-rejected by ATS systems before a human ever sees them.
Meanwhile, the LMIA system — the federal program that allows employers to hire foreign workers — produces hundreds of thousands of public records. But those records are buried in government spreadsheets that nobody outside of immigration lawyers and large consultancies bothers to parse.
I built Salience to fix both problems. The resume converter strips what shouldn't be there, rewrites what should, and maps everything to the NOC system. The employer database makes LMIA data searchable — by city, province, NOC code, employer name. For free.
This isn't a side project. This is the thing I wish existed when the people I care about were going through this process.
400K+
Newcomers to Canada yearly
IRCC
71%
Of newcomers have university degrees
StatCan 2021
2×
Higher unemployment for recent immigrants
StatCan LFS
LMIA stands for Labour Market Impact Assessment. It's a document that a Canadian employer must obtain before they can hire a foreign worker. It proves to the government that there is no Canadian citizen or permanent resident available to fill the role.
When an employer gets a positive LMIA, it means the federal government has reviewed the job offer and confirmed that hiring a foreign worker won't negatively impact the Canadian labour market. It's essentially a stamp of approval.
The government publishes these LMIA records as open data. Salience ingests, cleans, and indexes this data — turning raw government spreadsheets into a searchable employer database.
What this means for you: if an employer appears in our database with positive LMIA records for your NOC code, they have already been approved to hire foreign workers for that type of role. That doesn't guarantee they're hiring now, but it's a strong signal.
Employer identifies a role they can't fill locally
Employer applies to ESDC for a Labour Market Impact Assessment
Government reviews: salary, working conditions, recruitment efforts
If approved → positive LMIA → employer can hire a foreign worker
LMIA records published as open government data
Salience indexes these records → you can search them
Our database: 138,000+ employers, 428,000+ LMIA records spanning 2016–2025. Updated quarterly from open government data.
Transparency matters. Here's what Salience is — and isn't.
We are not immigration consultants.
Salience does not provide immigration advice, legal counsel, or application assistance. We convert resumes and surface public LMIA data. For immigration advice, consult a licensed RCIC or immigration lawyer.
We don't guarantee job offers.
A positive LMIA record means an employer was approved to hire foreign workers in the past. It doesn't mean they're currently hiring. Use our data as a starting point, not a guarantee.
We don't sell your data.
Your resume content is processed for conversion and not stored permanently. We don't share personal information with employers, third parties, or advertisers.
We don't replace human judgment.
AI conversion is a tool, not a substitute for reviewing your resume yourself. Always review the converted output before submitting it to employers.
We're not affiliated with IRCC or ESDC.
Salience is an independent platform. We use publicly available government data but have no official affiliation with Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada or Employment and Social Development Canada.
Everything on Salience is free today. We're building a Pro tier — but we'll never lock the core tools.
Planned at $19/month. Waitlist members get founding-member pricing.
Have questions, feedback, or a partnership idea? We read every message.
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Salience Enterprises
Location
Scarborough, Ontario, Canada
Response time
We typically respond within 24 hours.
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