Help with Reference Letters and NOC Selection

[frp1990]

Hi,
I recently got my ITA after applying through the FSW program under Express Entry, but I'm having a few problems regarding my work experience an how to prove it in an effective way for CIC.
I've listed 3 jobs under my work experience, and I'm having doubts regarding two of them.

Firstly, I worked as a financial analyst (NOC 1112) paid intern for 18 months at Peru's biggest bank 5 years ago. The thing is, after I left the company, the area where I worked separated form the bank and became a regional Investment Bank within the same holding. Therefore, every single person i worked with, as well as the HR area, moved to the new company. I managed to get a reference letter from the HR area of the bank, but with two potential problems:

• The bank's company letterhead doesn't include their telephone and address, though it includes the signatures and stamp from managers of HR. This is not only for the letter, but for every document they've ever sent me. I've written asking them to put contact information within the letter as a mean of contact for additional information inquiries. would this be good enough?
• They included everything except my duties, since they said that it is against company policy to put those in, specially considering that my area is no longer active within the bank (I've got this answer in an email from the bank). They did, however, put who my supervisor was in the letter, and she has agreed to make a me a letter in company letterhead from her new employer (which is within the same holding as the bank) stating my duties when i worked with her in the bank and validating the facts stated in the bank's letter (along with a current business card and, if possible, a business card from when she worked with me and was my boss, if she can find one). ¿Will this be good enough?

Finally, I'm having lots of trouble selecting my NOC for another job I had since I can't seem to fit within the options given to me. I contacted the NOC Office and they said that i might fit in in NOC 1112, NOC 1123, NOC 0601 or NOC 0621, but I've checked them out and can't seem to completely fit in within those. Regarding 0601 or 0621, I wasn't really a manager so I don't know how it would work out with those two NOCs. I worked as a business planner in a big sporting goods retail company, and my duties were the following:

• Develop monthly and yearly sales, margins and profitability forecasts for each store and for the firm.
• Analyze future investment projects and decisions by elaborating projected cash flows, such as opening new stores, closing stores and selling a new brand, in order to identify wether it is profitable or not.
• Define optimal store assortment by analyzing sales and consumer data and trends to maximize store profit and sales.
• Develop sales forecast for each brand in order to estimate the ideal advanced purchase for each upcoming season, taking into account changes in macroeconomic conditions that might impact consumers as well as consumer trends.
• Propose and evaluate sales and discounts policies to improve inventory turnover ratios and sales while quantifying and minimizing their impact over projected margins and profits.
• Project and monitor sales and financial and inventory ratios for every store and brand.
• Evaluation and assessment of sales, stocks and margins for every store according to seasonal market trends, macroeconomic conditions and specific sporting events

I would really appreciate if you guys could help me to shine a light to this two issues, since those are my main doubts regarding my FSW application.
Thanks a lot in advance for your help and sorry for the long post!

 

[DelPiero07]

1 - Yes, provide the standard letter issued from your bank, the e-mail from the bank, the letter from your supervisor and proof that she works for the company. This will be sufficient.

 

[frp1990]

1 - Yes, provide the standard letter issued from your bank, the e-mail from the bank, the letter from your supervisor and proof that she works for the company. This will be sufficient.

Thanks a lot for your help!

One last question, maybe you can help me with this. I've been reading a lot regarding differences between CRS and FSW scoring and accounting for work experience (I've read mixed reports about FSW not counting experience under multiple NOCs and people having their application rejected due to this)
In my application for EE, I've accounted experience for 3 jobs over 2 (potentially three depending on wether I figure out which NOC is appropriate for me) NOCs, with 1.5 years on the one I've selected as my primary one. Those 3 jobs add to a total of 4 years of skilled work experience. All of my experiences are paid, full time with over 1 year each.
I've read that FSW only considers your experience on your primary NOC. I've manually done my FSW score (using the scoring system on CICs website) and, considering just 1 year of experience if they only count my primary NOC experience, I'd still be over 67 FSW points (I would have 71 points), which seems to be the level you need to reach. My fear is that, if this is true and they only count as experience those in your primary NOC, my CRS score would fall below the cutoff for the invitation round and therefore void (I've read that if they discard something on your application, you should still be above cutoff without those points for it to remain eligible) my ITA even though I'd still be over 67 on FSW. ¿Should I worry about this or am I mixing stuff up?
I'm pretty nervous about this application and I really want it to go well so I might be freaking out for no reason, I'm sorry if the question itself doesn't make much sense

Thanks in advance for your help!

 

[DelPiero07]

You're mixing up the six selection factors under the FSW program with your eventual CRS score.

For CRS purposes you can use different NOC's to claim X years of work experience as long as they are all NOC 0, A or B and paid.

 

[frp1990]

You're mixing up the six selection factors under the FSW program with your eventual CRS score.

For CRS purposes you can use different NOC's to claim X years of work experience as long as they are all NOC 0, A or B and paid.

Thanks a lot for your quick answer!
So it should all be fine if I can account for whatever I put in my CRS ranking experience (wether it was in multiple NOCs, etc), if I can still score more than the cutoff on FSW considering only my primary NOC experience. Therefore, I should treat them as separate scores/processes with different standards, where I have to account for (kinda) different things and both must be met separately?