Showing PEO Experience Record is a must for you to attain a professional licence. Therefore, we have written this blog to let you know how to create your Experience Record when applying for a professional licence.
However, before we tell you about the PEO Experience Record method, we want you to first become familiar with the following.
Experience requirements:
It’s mandatory for you to show at least 48 months of acceptable, verifiable engineering work experience, of which a minimum of 12 months must have been attained in a Canadian jurisdiction under the supervision of a professional engineer having a licence.
You may be provided with a maximum of 12 months of experience credit for a post-graduate engineering degree or degree in the same engineering field as your undergraduate degree. You may be qualified for up to 12 months of pre-graduation engineering experience on the condition that the experience is attained after completing half of your undergraduate studies, and that it is approved and documented by your supervisor. You can find pre-graduation forms available on the official website of PEO.
Besides that, we also advise you to hire a PEO expert to know more about the PEO experience requirements and other related things.
How to create your Experience Record?
With the intention to help you with the PEO review and help you make sure that your Experience Record offers sufficient information, we suggest that your Record must be organized in the following way:
Fill up the Experience Record Form (including the company name, location and employment dates (month and year). Periods of not being present from employment (unemployed, travelling) must be listed with dates; and
For each position about which you report must give the assessment authority a small paragraph in which your job responsibilities are described with an emphasis on the engineering duties; and
Give a convincing description of how the work experience acquired in that position fulfills each of the five criteria (application of theory, communication skills, management of engineering, practical experience and knowledge of the social implications of engineering).
Key considerations when describing your engineering activities:
1. When creating your PEO Experience Record, don’t forget to highlight what you did because it relates to each of the five engineering criteria. Structure the description to include not only what you did, but the way you did and the reason for doing it. Use the format ‘ I performed… through… so that…’.
2. You should be specific about what you did completely different from the work of the team. ‘I came to know the heat load…’.
Offer enough information about the complicatedness of the situation.