Hi all. I'm trying to compute my years of work experience and I have some questions.
First question: I've been a postdoctoral fellow for two years and three months, which is a 40 h/week job. In my country, Brazil, postdocs do not receive salaries they receive scholarships. Does that count as work experience for the Express entry?
In the period I was a postdoctoral fellow I was also employed as a temporary teacher for two different universities. I had a 20h/week job at one university for a year and an 8h/week for another university. Some of these jobs did overlap.
Second question: I know that the maximum number of hours per week is 30 when they are computing work experience. Therefore, the 10 extra hours of my job as a postdoc would not count. However, I wonder if this is also true for different contracts. Can I use these other contracts to calculate work experience because they are from different contracts, or I can't because they overlapped?
Third question: I do have some experience as in teaching assistance internships. These internships were after my graduation, and I was paid, but with scholarships, not salary. Can I use these internships to compute my work experience time?
Fourth question: If I don't know if I will complete the three years of work experience until I submit the form to the pool drawing, but I'm certain I will have the three years by the time I receive the ITA, can I say I have three years work experience? In other words, in which step I will have to prove that I have the three years of work experience.
For reference, all time of work experience was outside Canada.
Thank you all very much.
First question: I've been a postdoctoral fellow for two years and three months, which is a 40 h/week job. In my country, Brazil, postdocs do not receive salaries they receive scholarships. Does that count as work experience for the Express entry?
In the period I was a postdoctoral fellow I was also employed as a temporary teacher for two different universities. I had a 20h/week job at one university for a year and an 8h/week for another university. Some of these jobs did overlap.
Second question: I know that the maximum number of hours per week is 30 when they are computing work experience. Therefore, the 10 extra hours of my job as a postdoc would not count. However, I wonder if this is also true for different contracts. Can I use these other contracts to calculate work experience because they are from different contracts, or I can't because they overlapped?
Third question: I do have some experience as in teaching assistance internships. These internships were after my graduation, and I was paid, but with scholarships, not salary. Can I use these internships to compute my work experience time?
Fourth question: If I don't know if I will complete the three years of work experience until I submit the form to the pool drawing, but I'm certain I will have the three years by the time I receive the ITA, can I say I have three years work experience? In other words, in which step I will have to prove that I have the three years of work experience.
For reference, all time of work experience was outside Canada.
Thank you all very much.
