Please Help (Experience Point Question)

[smokey]

Dear friends, I have a question regarding work experience for Skilled Worker category. I would appreciate your kind help.

During 2001, I earned a full-time (40 hours/week) experience for 15 months (in qualified NOC category) from my home country in Africa. I am wondering how many points can i get from this alone.
Also, i have some other recent part-time experiences from US, I am curious how many points those will be eligible for.

The following recent experiences are from my recent MS and PhD programs in the US, in which i had a part time RA jobs in a broken contracts but in a continuous employment with the same departments for considerable time. Those were

Aug. 2002 - Dec. 2002 for 15 hours/week with employer A
Janu. 2003- May 2003 for 15 hours/week with employer A
June 2003- Aug 2003 for 37.5 hours/week with employer A
Aug 2003 - Dec. 2003 for 15 hours/week with employer A

Jan. 2006 - present (July 2008) for 20 hours/week with employer B

I could not come up with the final score i will get from those experiences. Different people suggested me different, and now i hope this will be solved from this forum.


Roger

 

[eduardoF]

Dear friends, I have a question regarding work experience for Skilled Worker category. I would appreciate your kind help.

During 2001, I earned a full-time (40 hours/week) experience for 15 months (in qualified NOC category) from my home country in Africa. I am wondering how many points can i get from this alone.
Also, i have some other recent part-time experiences from US, I am curious how many points those will be eligible for.

The following recent experiences are from my recent MS and PhD programs in the US, in which i had a part time RA jobs in a broken contracts but in a continuous employment with the same departments for considerable time. Those were
Aug. 2002 - Dec. 2002 for 15 hours/week with employer A
Janu. 2003- May 2003 for 15 hours/week with employer A
June 2003- Aug 2003 for 37.5 hours/week with employer A
Aug 2003 - Dec. 2003 for 15 hours/week with employer A
Jan. 2006 - present (July 2008) for 20 hours/week with employer B

I'm not gifted for maths, but let's see... I am considering you started at the beginning of the month, and finished at the end of the month.

From august 2002 to december 2002 = 20 weeks * 15 hours = 300 hours
From january 2003 to may 2003 = 20 weeks * 15 hours = 300 hours
from june 2003 to august 2003 = 12 weeks * 37.5 hours = 450 hours
august 2003 to december 2003 = 20 weeks * 15 hours = 300 hours (i'm seeing august 2003 on the line above as well... so maybe I'm double-counting a few weeks here)

From all those, you had 1350 hours. Divided by 37.5 = 36 (less than a year)

january 2006 - july 2008 = 106 weeks + 28 weeks * 20 hours = 2680

From those, you had 2680 hours. Divided by 37.5 = 71.5 (approx. a year and a half)

But since there were no breaks in between, and since they are with the same employer and under the same NOC code, you can probably lump them all together: 107.5 weeks of full time work, that is, 2 years. Plus the 15 months from your previous job, you have "3, but less than 4 years of work experience"

With three years of experience, you get 3 points on that factor.

that's how I'd put it, but I could be wrong. wait for someone else's comments and don't take my advice as authoritative.

 

[Leon]

This is a very old message, I wonder if the guy is still here but I would give him a little more because there are a 4 extra weeks in the year over 4 weeks to a month. Because of that, 5 months is really not 20 weeks, it is 5/12*52 = 21.7 weeks, 3 months is really 13 weeks and not 12. You can divide the total number or hours by 1950 to figure out fraction of year.

 

[eduardoF]

let me correct myself. I was under the impression that you got 1 point per year worked. But I took the self-assessment test to verify that, and in fact, "3, but less than 4" years of experience gives you 19 points.