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NPPE

Competency-Based Assessment (CBA)

Unfortunately, it’s impossible for us (or anyone else) to take your resume and turn it into a CBA.  

A resume is a 1 or 2-page document that summarizes your duties and accomplishments at a very high-level. 

A Competency-Based Assessment (CBA) goes deep into the details of specific situations at work.  For instance, competency 1.1 Regulation, Codes, and Standards ask you to demonstrate your knowledge of regulations, codes, standards, and safety.  This is not something that you would have in your resume and is one example of why you have to draft the CBA on your own with the help of our course.  

Luckily, our step-by-step CBA course will help you write your examples on your own before they are sent for review.  Reviewing the CBA submissions in the course will help you to get lots of 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.  Our CommentatorAITM can review any engineering discipline. 

A review from one of our consultants is limited to the following areas:  

  • civil (structural, infrastructure, geotechnical)
  • mechanical (HVAC, fire protection)
  • electrical (power).
  • biomedical
  • chemical (process, mining, metallurgy and petroleum, extractive metallurgy)

Unfortunately, no.

We can't guarantee that after you use our course/review you won't have to fulfil other requirements from your association. 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 CBA submission the strongest it can be and ensure it is clear and concise. By doing this, you'll reduce your chances of having to fulfill other requirements.

The start and end dates for each competency refers to the time period for just that project.  It should be a minimum of 1 month in duration. 

Yes. 

Validation is critical to your CBA submission.  Pick your validators wisely.  It should be someone who knows your experience well and has a reputation for doing things on time.  However, if your validators are not validating your experience for any reason (e.g. retired, sick), you can contact your association to have them switched. 

If you:

  • take our CBA Course...and your association does not initially accept some competencies, you can order a review service from one of our P.Eng. consultants to review your revised rejected competencies.
  • take our CBA Course & Review Service...and your association does not accept some competencies, we'll provide you with a complimentary review for any rejected competencies. 

If after you re-submit low-scoring competencies, they are still not approved, we'll issue you a full refund plus an additional $100. Simply visit our guarantee page and fill out the form. 

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