NOC 2174: reference letter for dynamic career :)

[aloof]

Hi everyone,

I need an advice from someone experienced. My employer asked me to write a letter myself, so that's what I'm struggling against currently. And my problem is I've been working in the same company for 13 years, but
1) I had a number of various positions during this time (developer -> senior developer -> team leader -> project manager -> lead developer),
2) my company changed its name TWICE in this period (ABC -> XYZ -> XYZ Research).

As far as I understand, I need to have a reference letter for 10 years of my working experience for immigration purposes. Which means that I should mention all the stuff above in some form. And explain that all those companies are actually the same one, and that's why it's the one and only reference letter covering them all. So it should a LONG reference letter, I guess. Or I should find all my former bosses for all the former positions and ask them to sign separate reference letters? Or I can just say that all this stuff is NOC 2174 (which is basically true, except for brief and crazy period of project management) and I was hired by company XYZ Research for my current position, and that's it? But XYZ Research didn't exist 13 years ago, its name was ABC, so if Canadian guys decide to check, I might get into troubles...

So does anyone have any experience of packing such a story into the reference letter? How detailed should it be?

Thanks in advance.

 

[scylla]

Are you applying with an arranged employment offer in Canada?

Or are you planning on applying through the FSW occupation (no job offer) stream?

If it's the second, be aware that the cap has already been reached for NOC 2174 and your application will be returned unprocessed if you apply now. The numbers on the CIC web site only reflect applications that have been opened by CIC and accepted for further processing. They are still working on applications from late May.

 

[aloof]

scylla,
thank you for the warning but lets presume I can read too and I know what I'm doing. I only need quite practical advice on how detailed my reference letter should be.