Job Description Unavailability

[princepk]

Hello everyone,

So I'm going to apply for Express Entry. I have four years of experience from my employer. I have already quit my job (personal reason) and have asked HR to provide me experience letter. Upon discussion, I was told that the experience letter will contain few standard things and nothing more. Job description won't be available, and it is pointless to ask them, since HR issues the experience letter and they do not know what my job involves.

I doubt anyone from senior colleagues (such as my managers) will be willing to write sign and stamp my job descriptions, even if i write it down for them on a blank piece of paper, as they may fear that will jeopardize their jobs. I may be able to ask my friends (who are at the same experience level as me) to certify my job description. These friends are NOT from the same department as me. Does JD from such colleagues count? Can I ask multiple friends to testify my JD?

If anyone of you has faced similar issue, please share your experience and provide suggestions. Any help is greatly appreciated.

Thank you.



P.S. I did a search on "Job Description" on the forums, and found outdated posts or posts with no replies, that's why I chose to start a new thread.

 

[rezafc]

Hi there,

There have been cases like yours, and it's not the end of the world. Don't go with your friends/colleagues to "testify" for your job. That is just not reasonable and unprofessional. Compose a well written letter and explain why you couldn't obtain a letter with your exact job description! Also state that your company is not willing to give you the letter you are after because of their policies. Basically what HR told you. Tell CIC that they are more than welcome to contact you and/or the company in question if any further information was required.

They (CIC) will understand. Remember they are not evil and they are dealing with dozens and dozens of applications like yours. They know how to deal with it.

Don't worry, as I mentioned before there have been cases like yours and they just included an explanation letter. No problem.

All the best,

 

[princepk]

Hi there,

There have been cases like yours, and it's not the end of the world. Don't go with your friends/colleagues to "testify" for your job. That is just not reasonable and unprofessional. Compose a well written letter and explain why you couldn't obtain a letter with your exact job description! Also state that your company is not willing to give you the letter you are after because of their policies. Basically what HR told you. Tell CIC that they are more than welcome to contact you and/or the company in question if any further information was required.

They (CIC) will understand. Remember they are not evil and they are dealing with dozens and dozens of applications like yours. They know how to deal with it.

Don't worry, as I mentioned before there have been cases like yours and they just included an explanation letter. No problem.

All the best,

@rezafc Thank you for your reply. I can explain about the nature of my job and why I couldn't obtain a job description, and while it IS true that CIC handles thousands of cases like these, leaving everything at the discretion of the VO is taking too much chance. Also HR has no knowledge of what I do so it will make matters worse if CIC were to call them for JD verification. Only my manager/senior colleagues/work friends can provide this information.

Also I've been reading many people get their seniors write them a JD letter and getting it notarized. Do you know anyone who had any luck with this?

Thanks again.

 

[rezafc]

@rezafc Thank you for your reply. I can explain about the nature of my job and why I couldn't obtain a job description, and while it IS true that CIC handles thousands of cases like these, leaving everything at the discretion of the VO is taking too much chance. Also HR has no knowledge of what I do so it will make matters worse if CIC were to call them for JD verification. Only my manager/senior colleagues/work friends can provide this information.

Also I've been reading many people get their seniors write them a JD letter and getting it notarized. Do you know anyone who had any luck with this?

Thanks again.

Hey, not really! But I remember tons of tons of comments about these issues. Just dig deeper and you'll find them in this very forum.
Also on the HR side, educate him/her. That's what you do when people don't know what you are talking about.

Regards,