Hello everyone - looking for some insight, please. I have looked around the forum and many are asking if they can claim experience from internships and periods of work less than one year. I have the opposite problem.
I have six years of full time paid work experience, for which I will provide letters of reference from my employers.
However, before that I was unemployed for a short while after I emigrated to the UK, and prior to that I had a number of paid internship positions in Italy.
All of these are less than 12 months, and some of them I held before I had graduated. These internships do not help my application and I do not want to claim points from them.
Here are my questions:
- Do I have to declare these internships in my employment history for the last 10 years?
- If I don't declare them what should I say I was doing?
- Do I have to provide letters or recommendation or proof of employment for these roles if I do declare them, even if I don't want them to be considered as part of my application?
- What should I do if it's impossible for me to get either a letter of recommendation or prove that I worked in these places at all? (I have no pay slips or tax documents from this period).
This is a big source of stress for my application so if anyone who was in a similar situation could offer any help or insight, I would really appreciate it!
I have six years of full time paid work experience, for which I will provide letters of reference from my employers.
However, before that I was unemployed for a short while after I emigrated to the UK, and prior to that I had a number of paid internship positions in Italy.
All of these are less than 12 months, and some of them I held before I had graduated. These internships do not help my application and I do not want to claim points from them.
Here are my questions:
- Do I have to declare these internships in my employment history for the last 10 years?
- If I don't declare them what should I say I was doing?
- Do I have to provide letters or recommendation or proof of employment for these roles if I do declare them, even if I don't want them to be considered as part of my application?
- What should I do if it's impossible for me to get either a letter of recommendation or prove that I worked in these places at all? (I have no pay slips or tax documents from this period).
This is a big source of stress for my application so if anyone who was in a similar situation could offer any help or insight, I would really appreciate it!
