Is your Experience Record (ER) holding up your licence & career?
The challenge with writing your Experience Record is that the guidelines are very loose about what is really expected. You're spending your precious evenings and weekends wondering if what you're writing makes sense.
If it does, great. If not, you might be asked to re-submit it–or worse you'll be asked to attend an interview or write technical exams.
Our Rapid Submission Course is designed to take you by the hand
to start, improve, finish and submit your professional
looking Experience Record.
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Here's what you'll receive:
5 months of access
We've designed the course to help you write and submit in 30 days.
But if you need more time, you've got it.
4 full sample experience records
We've compiled excellent civil, electrical, mechanical and industrial sample experience records so that you can get a feel of the quality and detail you should aim for.
7 step-by-step modules
#1: Experience Record Checklist and Welcome Video | #2: Interview Quiz: How likely are you to be asked to interview and what can you do about it? | #3: Get Educated: 9 Best Practices + 5 Common Mistakes + 15 FAQs | #4: Download and Format the PEO Experience Record Template | #5: Compile your Experience Record: Use our Compiling Tool to help you write each situation. | #6: Request a review of your Experience Record to identify areas of improvement (included in Pro option) | #7: Submit to PEO
Situation Generator™ tool access
Our Situation Generator™ tool will help you write each situation by helping you use the proper verb depending on the competency section you are working on.
Anyone who wants 1 dedicated resource to teach them step-by-step how to write and submit their best Experience Record. It is for those applying for a Professional (P.Eng.), Limited or Temporary licences.
 | This course has been designed for both Canadian and foreign educated aspiring engineers. |  |
Who's behind the Experience Record Course & Review Service?
Your draft needs a review... before it's reviewed (by PEO)
Who will review my draft?
It will be reviewed by someone in your field– Your draft will be assigned to one of our civil, electrical or mechanical P.Eng. consultants (with similar experience to yours).
What will the reviewer focus on?
Our reviewer will focus most of their time on the two most important sections: Application of Theory and Practical Experience. We'll also review your other 3 sections.
What will the reviewer catch?
He/she will catch errors, issues, and things that are unclear. It's better if we ask these questions rather than PEO.
How long does it take?
Your review will take approximately 5 business days and you'll receive an email with a bulleted list of things you are in compliance with as well as a list of things that you should address before submission.
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Your Roadmap to ER Success
Take the course
Work from top to bottom in the 7 module course. Learn about best practices and common mistakes. Brainstorm and use our tool to develop your draft. Compare it with our 4 samples. Feel confident as you start, fix or finish your experience write-up.
Draft review
Send your draft for a review by one of our P.Eng. consultants. We'll match you up with someone in a similar discipline and stream.
Integrate feedback
Receive comments on how to make your draft more clear and concise. Update your draft to make it PEO ready.
Submit
Send it off to PEO knowing that your experience record is the best it could be.
Don't delay your application any longer.
Let our experienced team help you submit your best experience record.
Pick one of the options and get started right away:
FAQs
Unfortunately, it’s impossible for us (or anyone else) to take your resume and turn it into an Experience Record.
A resume is a 1 or 2-page document that summarizes your duties and accomplishments at a very high-level.
An Experience Record goes deep into the details of specific situations at work. For instance, in the Application of Theory section, each situation requires you to explain the engineering methodology you used and how you applied an engineering theory to resolve an issue at work.
Luckily, our step-by-step experience record course will show you how to write your situations on your own before they are sent for review. You can even review the sample records in the course to get some ideas about the length and detail you should aim for.
Unfortunately, we require everyone to take the course to qualify for our review service. The course helps to ensure your draft meets a certain level of quality. It also allows our consultants to focus the feedback more on your engineering content and less on submission compliance.
Great question. We can only add value in a draft review if we have a consultant available in that discipline and stream. The following are disciplines that we currently support:
- civil (all streams)
- mechanical (all streams)
- electrical (all streams)
- chemical (certain streams)
- computer - software
If your discipline is not listed above, you will still receive the benefit from going through the course as you prepare your experience record.
No.
You just need to ensure that the employers that you do include cover a minimum of 48 months (4 years). This will allow you to focus on your best experience.
To ensure that your record doesn't have any gaps, you still need to tell PEO about what you were doing. So, in between records you can say, "I worked at (company name) as a (job title) from (start date) until (end date) but wish to exclude this experience from my record to focus on more technical experience."
Unfortunately, no.
We can't guarantee that after you use our course/review you won't have to fulfil other requirements from PEO. There are a lot of factors out of our control (e.g. the experience you have gained, if you were educated in Canada or abroad, if you implement our recommendations or not).
Our goal is to give you the best tools, examples, support and recommendations to make your ER submission the strongest it can be and ensure that it is clear and concise. By doing this, you'll be able to reduce your chances of having to fulfil other requirements.
This can be a challenging hurdle to overcome and our course & review service may not be able to help you improve your draft record enough to satisfy PEO.
Application of engineering theory is the most important criteria. Someone who, for instance, has spent all of their career in project management, will likely struggle to pass this licensing step. If you plan on explaining your Application of Theory bullets by giving examples of how you reviewed/verified the engineering work of the design engineer, then it likely won't be enough. Your options will be to:
- Take our course and review service and see what PEO says. You may be asked to attend a technical interview, write exams or gain more experience. You may need to change jobs to get the right experience (see point 3 below).
- Think about getting your PMP or other designation instead. If a P.Eng. is not needed for your job now, then maybe you can still have a successful career without it.
- Change jobs and work for a company that holds a Certificate of Authorization (CofA) and does real design work. This may be a step back in salary, but if holding a P.Eng. is an important goal of yours, then this might be the only way to make it work.