How To Create Your PEO Experience Record

 Before you know how to create a PEO experience record, you must know the experience requirements and the quality-based criteria.

Therefore, we have written this article to let you know both how to create your PEO experience record and work experience requirements. In addition, we will also tell you about the PEO criteria to assess work experience.

Work experience requirements:

Ontario law needs PEO licence candidates to have four years of engineering work experience before they can obtain their professional engineering licence. A minimum of one year of their experience must be obtained in a Canadian jurisdiction. It makes sure that they have a sufficient amount of exposure to Canadian engineering codes, legislation, technical standards and regulations.

Professional Engineers Ontario assesses each applicant’s engineering experience against the five quality-based criteria listed below:

·        Application of theory;

·        Practical experience;

·        Management of engineering;

·        Communication skills; and

·        Awareness of the social implications of engineering.

For a licence, you must demonstrate at least 48 months of acceptable, verifiable engineering experience acquired after completing your undergraduate engineering degree.

How to create a work experience record:

To assist with the PEO review and help you make sure that your PEO experience record gives sufficient information, you must organize your record in the following way:

Fill up the Experience Record Form by giving your company name, location and employment dates (month and year). Periods of the absence of employment (unemployed, travelling) must be given with dates; and

For each position regarding which you are reporting, give PEO a small paragraph describing your job responsibilities with an emphasis on the engineering duties; and

Give a description of how the work experience earned in that position fulfills each of the five criteria (application of theory, practical experience, management of engineering, communication skills and knowledge of the social implications of engineering).

Tips for describing your engineering activities:

Pay heed to what you did because it relates to each of the five engineering criteria. Structure the description to include not only what you did, but also how you did and the reason behind doing it. You may use the format: ‘I had been’…using… to..’

Be specific concerning what you did as opposed to the work of the team. ‘I determined the heat load…’

Provide the authority with sufficient information regarding the complexity of the situation.

Referees

At least three referees are required to verify your engineering experience. One of the three must be your direct supervisor, who may or may not be a Professional Engineer. One of the other two referees needs to be a Professional Engineer who can comment directly on your work for at least 12 months. If having worked for more than one employer, over the applicable work period, supply the relevant information regarding your direct supervisor from each place of employment and at least one Professional Engineer referee who can comment on at least 12 months of work experience.

PEO will need the name and complete mailing address (or mail address) for each referee. Ensure that you give reliable contact information, as PEO will not track down your referees for you.

PEO has the right to interview a candidate whose PEO work experience record and/or referee statements are not sufficient to complete the assessment.