Digging more into if I should consider taking a potential job offer from Canada which I enquired here Opinions to take this job offer or not and folks helped me understand their view points, I found out while filling in EE eligibility checker, the following:
> In the last 10 years how many years of skilled work experience do you have? It must have been continuous, paid, full-time (or an equal amount in part-time), and in only one occupation.
If I see this (and there are a couple more similar ones in other threads) answer it seems to suggest that after you have 1 continuous year of experience, you are fine to show gaps. Is that an opinion (or a common interpretation) OR is that a known rule ?
I ask because the way I read the quoted text is that is says no matter what number of years you claim, they have to be continuous and in just one occupation.
So if I spent 2yrs in organisation X0 then switched to X1 for the next 2 years with a gap of say a month (or anything above that) in between, I can only claim either of the 2 years for EE but not 4 years. Of-course I think I'm wrong because this sounds not quite sensible. While changing employers a lot of people obviously take breaks. Sometimes those are a few days, but they can also sometimes be a few months (like in my case it was 4 months on one occasion because the new employer was OK with it) or anything in between. It wouldn't be too reasonable of IRCC to assume that all the years claimed didn't have any amount of breaks in between.
> In the last 10 years how many years of skilled work experience do you have? It must have been continuous, paid, full-time (or an equal amount in part-time), and in only one occupation.
If I see this (and there are a couple more similar ones in other threads) answer it seems to suggest that after you have 1 continuous year of experience, you are fine to show gaps. Is that an opinion (or a common interpretation) OR is that a known rule ?
I ask because the way I read the quoted text is that is says no matter what number of years you claim, they have to be continuous and in just one occupation.
So if I spent 2yrs in organisation X0 then switched to X1 for the next 2 years with a gap of say a month (or anything above that) in between, I can only claim either of the 2 years for EE but not 4 years. Of-course I think I'm wrong because this sounds not quite sensible. While changing employers a lot of people obviously take breaks. Sometimes those are a few days, but they can also sometimes be a few months (like in my case it was 4 months on one occasion because the new employer was OK with it) or anything in between. It wouldn't be too reasonable of IRCC to assume that all the years claimed didn't have any amount of breaks in between.
- All this makes me think those posts from people answering are correct, but each time I read the quoted sentence again, it sort of shouts out that you need all the claimed years to be a single, continuous stretch (irrespective of the fact that you changed employers etc.). So do you know if it's explained anywhere further to disambiguate this ?
- There are also other posts that say that you can claim work experience under different NOCs if each of them is for a year or more continuously. So again the same question - reading the quoted text says that all the claimed experience must be in only one occupation. If you have more than one NOCs then choose the one that gives you the longest duration and ignore the others for FSW. Is that correct ?
- If I have a valid job offer, does the claimed experience need to be in exactly that category ? So if I I'm getting a job offer with a work permit from an employer in NOC: abc and want to see before moving into Canada what I score in the CRS, do I need to only consider my past experience in exactly NOC of abc or can I mention any acceptable NOC which gives me the longest duration ?
