Regarding years of experience under Express entry

[rakesh00]

Hello,
I have around 7 Years(total of 4 different companies) of total experience as software engineer in India but there is gap in-between switching and joining the new company. I had around 10-15 days of gap in 2 companies joining but in last switch I have 5 months of gap. So my question is that would it make any difficulties to get PR through Express entry beacause of these gaps?

Responses would be highly appreciated.

Thanks.

 

[dankboi]

The gaps are fine until today, Won't be able to predict how it'll be in the near future probably within 6 months since there will be reforms coming to immigration rules and systems as ministry stated in the previous budget.

 

[AishB]

Hi, I had a 10 month gap between different jobs. According to the current rule, the gap is fine and acceptable. You will have to declare in the Personal History the unemployed time as well. I don't think it is fair to expect a continuous job period, there are many reasons why people stay unemployed for an extended period of time and now with covid, it is almost unreasonable to put that as a criteria.
As long as the jobs held are in the same NOC code (considering you will claim all those different jobs toward your experience), you will have to provide the proof from each of these organisations while submitting the application post-ITA.