CEC Hours Information needed(Permanent/Contract employment)

[vk_canada]

Hello All,

I have few questions regarding CEC employment details, any information from people in the forum would be of great help. Below are my questions.

1) Can a person working on NOC O, A or B full-time contract position in Canada be eligible to consider the experience towards CEC? If so, what is the process of gathering the experience documents. Would employer provide experience letters for a contract employees?

2) If someone is working on NOC O, A or B permanent job for 3 months (40 hours/week) and 5 months(12 hours/week) at the same job, would this hours be calculated to total hours (1560)? As 5 months of work is less than 15 hours/week!

3) In the new CRS calculator Work Experience column#6, If a person has one year experience in Canada i) Should be selected as 1 year and in the ii) Should we select 1 year here too or this is only for experience outside Canada? I guess in the old CRS calculator it was clearly mentioned experience outside Canada and in the new one it doesn't say anything.

Thanks in advance!

 

[jes_ON]

1) Can a person working on NOC O, A or B full-time contract position in Canada be eligible to consider the experience towards CEC? If so, what is the process of gathering the experience documents. Would employer provide experience letters for a contract employees?

A "contract employee" is employed, so yes, the experience counts. However, "contract work" sometimes means "self-employed contractor" - in that case, the experience does not count. You have to be clear whether you are a contract employee vs self-employed.

2) If someone is working on NOC O, A or B permanent job for 3 months (40 hours/week) and 5 months(12 hours/week) at the same job, would this hours be calculated to total hours (1560)? As 5 months of work is less than 15 hours/week!

No. You do not count hours for full-time work, only for part-time work. You count the part-time hours so that you can calcuate the full-time equivalent (FTE). If you work 15 hours per week for one year, that is the FTE of 6 months.

First, count the number of WEEKs of full time work. Then, for the part-time work (you will want to list them separately in the profile), you count the part-time hours and divide by 30, this will give you the number of FTE weeks. Then, you can add the weeks together. One year = 52 weeks.

3) In the new CRS calculator Work Experience column#6, If a person has one year experience in Canada i) Should be selected as 1 year and in the ii) Should we select 1 year here too or this is only for experience outside Canada? I guess in the old CRS calculator it was clearly mentioned experience outside Canada and in the new one it doesn't say anything.

Where it specifies "In Canada," you should count Canadian experience. Where it does not say "in Canada," it means only foreign work experience. (It should say that, but for some reason it does not).

 

[vk_canada]

Thanks a lot, that was so informative.