Hi friends!
I'm having some trouble with my work experience letters and was hoping you could offer some advice/experience:
1. I worked for 3 years and 10 months for a government entity in my country. The first 6 months I was hired as a contractor through a staffing firm, and the remaining time I was hired directly. The entity already gave me the letter for the time I spent as their direct employee, but I have to get the letter for the first 6 months from the staffing firm. This is turning out to be more of a headache than it's worth.
I'm inclined to forego these 6 months of work experience and just not get the letter (I believe the maximum recognized work experience outside of Canada is 3 years anyway), but I'm concerned by the appearance of a 6-month stretch in my personal history as "unemployed". Additionally, I don't know if claiming to be unemployed for 6 months when I in fact had a job could be considered misrepresentation.
2. A different former employer already supplied the work experience letter and it has everything I need except job duties and functions. Per HR policies, they can't include that in the letter and advised me to attach my contract instead. Problem is, I had 4 contracts with them (with just slight variations in the functions), and they are multiple page documents where the job description is an annex with no letterhead or any other signature, so I would probably have to upload the whole thing. I only have the most recent contract, so I would have to hunt down the 3 previous ones and upload it all. Wouldn't it be counterproductive to include so much unnecessary information? Would it be better to get my immediate supervisor to write a letter certifying my duties, even if that letter doesn't come in company letterhead (I'm not sure my former supervisor has the capacity to produce official documentation for the company). Please advise!
Thank you very much in advance!
I'm having some trouble with my work experience letters and was hoping you could offer some advice/experience:
1. I worked for 3 years and 10 months for a government entity in my country. The first 6 months I was hired as a contractor through a staffing firm, and the remaining time I was hired directly. The entity already gave me the letter for the time I spent as their direct employee, but I have to get the letter for the first 6 months from the staffing firm. This is turning out to be more of a headache than it's worth.
I'm inclined to forego these 6 months of work experience and just not get the letter (I believe the maximum recognized work experience outside of Canada is 3 years anyway), but I'm concerned by the appearance of a 6-month stretch in my personal history as "unemployed". Additionally, I don't know if claiming to be unemployed for 6 months when I in fact had a job could be considered misrepresentation.
2. A different former employer already supplied the work experience letter and it has everything I need except job duties and functions. Per HR policies, they can't include that in the letter and advised me to attach my contract instead. Problem is, I had 4 contracts with them (with just slight variations in the functions), and they are multiple page documents where the job description is an annex with no letterhead or any other signature, so I would probably have to upload the whole thing. I only have the most recent contract, so I would have to hunt down the 3 previous ones and upload it all. Wouldn't it be counterproductive to include so much unnecessary information? Would it be better to get my immediate supervisor to write a letter certifying my duties, even if that letter doesn't come in company letterhead (I'm not sure my former supervisor has the capacity to produce official documentation for the company). Please advise!
Thank you very much in advance!
