Employment Reference Letters - A few doubts

[wickerman]

Hi Guys

I have a few doubts on employment reference letters.

1. I held 3 different titles over a 6 year period between 2007 and 2013 at a company. My current reference letter mentions my job title as the last title that I hed (and the longest, from 2010 to 2013). Is this okay or should the letter mention all 3 titles?

2. Should the letter mention job responsibilities and duties for EACH of these titles? Or should it be 3 different letters? Or will the following bullet point work:

Other titles held: Member Technical Staff, Senior Member Technical Staff.

3. My company refused to give me a customized reference letter. Hence, I am getting a letter from a former colleague (who is also an ex employee of the company) of mine on a plain paper. I am attaching his experience letter along with mine, that shows an overlap of both our time at the company. Will this suffice?

4. Should the letter from my colleague be notarized or is it okay that I dont notarize it?

5. Should I submit paystubs for the companies I worked at. The CIC instructions dont explicitly ask for paystubs, but I wanted to ask regardless.

6. Should I submit offer letters for all the companies that I worked with and am currently working in?

7. I have mentioned all of the companies that I have worked at in my work history. I joined my current company in OCtober 2016 (consulting). Hence, I dont have a year of experience in it. However, I started working in consulting in July 2015. Hence, I have more than a year of experience in consulting in my previous company, and more than a year of experience overall (previous company + current company). My quetsion really is, should I move my current company to personal history, or is it okay to leave it in the work history section since I am submitting a reference letter anyway? (The NOC Code for both the previous and current company will be the same - 1122 (management consulting)).


Could you guys please help clarify these?

 

[chikoo1985]

Hi Guys

I have a few doubts on employment reference letters.

1. I held 3 different titles over a 6 year period between 2007 and 2013 at a company. My current reference letter mentions my job title as the last title that I hed (and the longest, from 2010 to 2013). Is this okay or should the letter mention all 3 titles?

It's good that it mentions all 3 titles. Try to get those letter separately if needed.

2. Should the letter mention job responsibilities and duties for EACH of these titles? Or should it be 3 different letters? Or will the following bullet point work:

Other titles held: Member Technical Staff, Senior Member Technical Staff.

In my opinion.. Job duties & salary are required for only current title

3. My company refused to give me a customized reference letter. Hence, I am getting a letter from a former colleague (who is also an ex employee of the company) of mine on a plain paper. I am attaching his experience letter along with mine, that shows an overlap of both our time at the company. Will this suffice?

Yes.

4. Should the letter from my colleague be notarized or is it okay that I dont notarize it?

Iet's wait for expert to reply.

5. Should I submit paystubs for the companies I worked at. The CIC instructions dont explicitly ask for paystubs, but I wanted to ask regardless.

In my application I have only submitted for my pat sub of last 3 months. If you don't have it don't worry. Just stick to recent ones.

6. Should I submit offer letters for all the companies that I worked with and am currently working in?

Currently is good. But if you have past offer letters there is no harm in including those.

7. I have mentioned all of the companies that I have worked at in my work history. I joined my current company in OCtober 2016 (consulting). Hence, I dont have a year of experience in it. However, I started working in consulting in July 2015. Hence, I have more than a year of experience in consulting in my previous company, and more than a year of experience overall (previous company + current company). My quetsion really is, should I move my current company to personal history, or is it okay to leave it in the work history section since I am submitting a reference letter anyway? (The NOC Code for both the previous and current company will be the same - 1122 (management consulting)).

You can mention it in work history and I think you should. As long as you have reference letter to prove it.


Could you guys please help clarify these?

 

[lakers17]

I have slightly different question. My company is ready to give me a experience letter with titles & responsibilities on company letterhead, but it will not be signed by my supervisor. The HR representative will sign it. Is it an issue?

 

[wickerman]

I have slightly different question. My company is ready to give me a experience letter with titles & responsibilities on company letterhead, but it will not be signed by my supervisor. The HR representative will sign it. Is it an issue?

I have a couple of letters signed by HR personnel. My very first job - where I am not even sure if my managers are alive lol and my current job where the director of human resources signed it. So I think that should be okay.

 

[wickerman]

Okay is there a reason when separate letters will be needed? My roles and responsibilities didnt change though even though I was promoted. As in the core responsibilities remained the same. So will it be okay if I just add a section called "Otehr titles held" and just mention the titles alone?

 

[DelPiero07]

Job titles are irrelevant, as long as your duties remained the same throughout your employment a single reference letter will do.

 

[wickerman]

Job titles are irrelevant, as long as your duties remained the same throughout your employment a single reference letter will do.

Thank you! In that case however, do I have to mention those titles in my refernece letter? Currently, my reference letter only has the last title that I held. Is that okay or should I ask them to include a section with the other titles (but then again, not that they would make any differnece, as the roles and responsibilities were the same).

 

[DelPiero07]

If you only created a single entry in the work history section for such employment then your current reference letter is fine.

If you created more than one entry then specify the different titles and write something like "his duties remained the same throughout his employment period". You can then upload this single reference letter in more than one placeholder.

 

[wickerman]

If you only created a single entry in the work history section for such employment then your current reference letter is fine.

If you created more than one entry then specify the different titles and write something like "his duties remained the same throughout his employment period". You can then upload this single reference letter in more than one placeholder.

Awesome! Yes, I created only one entry for my entire period of employment. So I guess my current letter is fine! Thank you!

 

[wickerman]

If you only created a single entry in the work history section for such employment then your current reference letter is fine.

If you created more than one entry then specify the different titles and write something like "his duties remained the same throughout his employment period". You can then upload this single reference letter in more than one placeholder.

I just had one additional question. My reference letter, is from an ex-colleague, who is an ex-employee of the company. (Since the company refused to provide reference letter in the Canada format).

Since the letter is in plain paper, do you suggest that I get it notarized? OR is that not needed?

 

[wstrn24]

I just had one additional question. My reference letter, is from an ex-colleague, who is an ex-employee of the company. (Since the company refused to provide reference letter in the Canada format).

Since the letter is in plain paper, do you suggest that I get it notarized? OR is that not needed?

I believe you will have to provide the employment letter with company's name on the letterhead.

 

[wickerman]

I believe you will have to provide the employment letter with company's name on the letterhead.

The company refused to provide a customized letter with job responsibilities etc., Apparently they dont do that. So I am attaching, my offer letter, my experience letter, the ex colleague's experience letter, salary increment letter and paystubs along with the letter written on plain paper.

My question however, is if you need to get this letter notarized.

 

[wstrn24]

The company refused to provide a customized letter with job responsibilities etc., Apparently they dont do that. So I am attaching, my offer letter, my experience letter, the ex colleague's experience letter, salary increment letter and paystubs along with the letter written on plain paper.

My question however, is if you need to get this letter notarized.

I don't know, sorry. I didn't get mine notarized. Both my employment letters were written by the supervisor/manager.

 

[DelPiero07]

The company refused to provide a customized letter with job responsibilities etc., Apparently they dont do that. So I am attaching, my offer letter, my experience letter, the ex colleague's experience letter, salary increment letter and paystubs along with the letter written on plain paper.

My question however, is if you need to get this letter notarized.

Plain paper is fine, just provide any document that proves that your colleague used to work for that company.

 

[wickerman]

Plain paper is fine, just provide any document that proves that your colleague used to work for that company.

Great. I am attaching our expeirence letters - both mine and his. Which is on company letter head and shows that we worked in teh same period of time as well.