Jumping the gun a bit since I'm still waiting on my ECA and IELTS test date, but I'm getting confused trying to sort through the upcoming task of detailing my work history and thought I'd ask for help. My jobs have been professional in nature, but also in fairly diverse fields! I also have been a variable employee for all of my career, and though I've worked 30+ hours at most of my jobs, they were not officially full-time. By the time I submit my application, I will have eighteen months of work experience where it's clearly documented that I work 30+ hours a week, but prior to that it was a lot messier, at least to document.
So, in brief: I am a writer, with Master's degrees in English & Creative Writing and a literary agent based in Canada. All of my jobs have involved writing in some capacity. From 2016-mid 2019 I taught writing at a university, a secondary school, and a tutoring center, and I also did freelance copyediting. From June 2019 to June 2020 I worked as an Editorial Director for a tech company, doing writing and editing for mobile games. Now I am a project manager at a surgery practice, which is not expressly writing-related, but involves a lot of writing. Would I be safest to categorize myself as a Writer/Author? Should I ask my current employers to speak to the writing involved in my role? Are there disadvantages to declaring multiple NOCs, like educator or manager for the teaching/project management work?
I'm also concerned about the variable/part-time nature of my work up until mid-2019. I was a graduate student, so I balanced multiple jobs as they fit my schedule. The tutoring center gave me the most hours and it was anywhere from 20-40 a week--I think I could ask my former boss to state that it was 30 for the purposes of this application, but I'm not 100% certain that she would, since there were definitely slow weeks that I only hit 20-24 hours. If I can document that I worked multiple part-time jobs in that time, will it suffice? And if my boss at the tutoring center is willing to state that I worked 30+ hours for her, should I nix the lecturer gig and secondary school teaching from my application, since they weren't a lot of hours and will make things more time consuming?
Thanks to anyone who has taken the time to read and advise, I'm doing this without a lawyer and wondering if I'm shooting myself in the foot, but if I can plug in 3 years of work experience, I think my score will be above 470 and that I'll have a chance. I'm from the US.
So, in brief: I am a writer, with Master's degrees in English & Creative Writing and a literary agent based in Canada. All of my jobs have involved writing in some capacity. From 2016-mid 2019 I taught writing at a university, a secondary school, and a tutoring center, and I also did freelance copyediting. From June 2019 to June 2020 I worked as an Editorial Director for a tech company, doing writing and editing for mobile games. Now I am a project manager at a surgery practice, which is not expressly writing-related, but involves a lot of writing. Would I be safest to categorize myself as a Writer/Author? Should I ask my current employers to speak to the writing involved in my role? Are there disadvantages to declaring multiple NOCs, like educator or manager for the teaching/project management work?
I'm also concerned about the variable/part-time nature of my work up until mid-2019. I was a graduate student, so I balanced multiple jobs as they fit my schedule. The tutoring center gave me the most hours and it was anywhere from 20-40 a week--I think I could ask my former boss to state that it was 30 for the purposes of this application, but I'm not 100% certain that she would, since there were definitely slow weeks that I only hit 20-24 hours. If I can document that I worked multiple part-time jobs in that time, will it suffice? And if my boss at the tutoring center is willing to state that I worked 30+ hours for her, should I nix the lecturer gig and secondary school teaching from my application, since they weren't a lot of hours and will make things more time consuming?
Thanks to anyone who has taken the time to read and advise, I'm doing this without a lawyer and wondering if I'm shooting myself in the foot, but if I can plug in 3 years of work experience, I think my score will be above 470 and that I'll have a chance. I'm from the US.