Reference letters from past employers

[ladysuz]

Hi, everyone -

I've been at my current job for over 13 years and it will be next to impossible to get a letter of reference from my former employers. Would a letter of explanation suffice as long as I have a letter from my current employer? Has anyone run into this before?

Thanks,
Susan

 

[ja77]

only the job within the last 10 years counts towards the experience points. even if you obtain reference letters from your past employers, they will not help you getting any additional experience points. i am saying this because you said you have been in your current job for the last 13 years. as long as your current job is one of the 38 eligible occupations, you can claim full experience points i.e. 21. but in the personal history, you will be mentioning your previous jobs anyway, so if you think you should provide reference letters from the previous employers only because you mentioned them in your personal history, then this is up to you. bottom line is that reference letters from the previous employers will not help you towards claimining experience points at least because they are about your jobs that you did 13 years before.

 

[Hindu_Sikh_Bro_Bro]

only the job within the last 10 years counts towards the experience points.

wrong wrong wrong. The 10 year condition applies only to occupations from the list of 38 i.e. you have to have worked in one of the 38 occupations within the past 10 years. But you can still claim points for however number of years you have worked in life. So theres no reason why she cant claim work experience points for the jobs she has been in before her current one.

 

[PankajK]

I Guess ja77 is right, max points can be claimed for job experience 4 years or more (21)

so being in a job for 13 years is good to claim full points.

Good Luck ladysuz