Hello, I´m Paola from El Salvador, 31 years old, and I have an inquiry related to the work experience letter, I have read most of the relevant posts and I notice similar issues but none identical to mine, so I decided to write my case and ask for advice, maybe it can help others in the same situation.
A little background about me: I´m a civil engineer living in El Salvador (Central America), and since I graduated (~2008), I started working for a young (but reputable) construction company for approximately 2 years plus a couple of months, full time, paid and continuous. I have other experience since then but not related with my NOC, therefore irrelevant.
Basically, my inquiry revolves around the importance (mandatory vs desirable) of the supporting documents for a work experience letter, my particular problem starts with this: I never signed a contract with them.
This is because, the company wanted to save money by severing employment benefits (such as vacations, health insurance, severance pay etc.) as a (somewhat illegal) policy to reduce costs. This may be outrageous for some of you living in the north, but quite common (to some extent) in poor countries like mine (and depending on the company of course). Here you either accept any little chance, or let others take the money for good, so to speak.
Despite this, they surprisely agreed to give me a work experience letter who fits the required format with all necessary details. In my particular case, I have managed (so far) to get some payslips, but not all. I hope the company could provide me a full set of them (have to travel to ask them). To add injury, my bank statements don´t go as far as I need (when I looked for another supportive document).
So, I wrote this question not only having in mind my own issue but thinking about others who may be in a similar situation. Now, taking into account the worst possible outcome from a company refusing or unable to submit certain supportive documents:
1) Is having a single work experience letter "enough" for application purposes? (a letter that meets all the requirements for a "work experience letter" alone: signatures, business cards, stamps, phone numbers, emails, detailed job description, letterhead paper, translation certified/notarized, etc., government registration certificate for that company, but no other supportive document such as contract or payslips), and everything verifiable should I add.
2) And if your answer is no, (for my specific case) is having payslips (some?/all) a good supportive document? (they look like cheap pieces of paper to me really, but they have the signature of the supervising engineer in charge of my work. Thank you very much for any reply : )
A little background about me: I´m a civil engineer living in El Salvador (Central America), and since I graduated (~2008), I started working for a young (but reputable) construction company for approximately 2 years plus a couple of months, full time, paid and continuous. I have other experience since then but not related with my NOC, therefore irrelevant.
Basically, my inquiry revolves around the importance (mandatory vs desirable) of the supporting documents for a work experience letter, my particular problem starts with this: I never signed a contract with them.
This is because, the company wanted to save money by severing employment benefits (such as vacations, health insurance, severance pay etc.) as a (somewhat illegal) policy to reduce costs. This may be outrageous for some of you living in the north, but quite common (to some extent) in poor countries like mine (and depending on the company of course). Here you either accept any little chance, or let others take the money for good, so to speak.
Despite this, they surprisely agreed to give me a work experience letter who fits the required format with all necessary details. In my particular case, I have managed (so far) to get some payslips, but not all. I hope the company could provide me a full set of them (have to travel to ask them). To add injury, my bank statements don´t go as far as I need (when I looked for another supportive document).
So, I wrote this question not only having in mind my own issue but thinking about others who may be in a similar situation. Now, taking into account the worst possible outcome from a company refusing or unable to submit certain supportive documents:
1) Is having a single work experience letter "enough" for application purposes? (a letter that meets all the requirements for a "work experience letter" alone: signatures, business cards, stamps, phone numbers, emails, detailed job description, letterhead paper, translation certified/notarized, etc., government registration certificate for that company, but no other supportive document such as contract or payslips), and everything verifiable should I add.
2) And if your answer is no, (for my specific case) is having payslips (some?/all) a good supportive document? (they look like cheap pieces of paper to me really, but they have the signature of the supervising engineer in charge of my work. Thank you very much for any reply : )