Is Your APEGS Work Experience Report Ready for Submission

As an International trained engineer, when you intend to work and live in Saskatchewan, Canada, you have to pass through the process of APEGS that is Association of professional engineers and geoscientists of Saskatchewan to get a licence.

Submission of your Work Experience Report (WER) is one of the most important sections of this process. When I began, it seemed so confusing and especially, what was considered to be acceptable experience and how it should be presented.

In this guide, I will show you all that I discovered, including what to consider in your APEGS Report and on how to submit it. In addition to that, I will provide some useful information on engineering migration in Canada in order to paint the whole picture.

What Is the APEGS Work Experience Report?

In the Work Experience Report (WER) you are expected to describe your engineering working experience. It is your time to demonstrate that you had learned enough, had responsibility and professional development to become a licensed engineer in Saskatchewan.

You require a minimum of 48 months (4 years) worth of satisfactory engineering experience. Of that, no less than one year should be in a Canadian setting or prove the same level of familiarity of the Canadian codes, ethics, and standards.

Who Needs to Submit It?

If you are:

• An internationally educated engineer
• Applying for Engineer-in-Training (EIT) status
• Or planning to become a Professional Engineer (P.Eng) in Saskatchewan

…then you will probably have to file IWER.

Engineers Canada stated that approximately 25% of the licensed engineers within the country are globally trained. In Saskatchewan, this figure is on the rise with more qualified workers opting to migrate under such schemes as SINP (Saskatchewan Immigrant Nominee Program).

Step-by-Step: How to Submit Your APEGS Work Experience Report

Step 1: Create Your APEGS Account

Go to the official APEGS website, and open an account under the APEGS Central portal. This is where you will process your application, make documents uploads and follow up.

Step 2: Review the WER Guidelines

Take time to read the Competency-Based Assessment (CBA) Guide issued by APEGS prior to writing. It outlines:

• The 34 significant engineering skills
• Some examples of acceptable experience
• Do and don ts of writing and formatting

Step 3: Complete the Experience Records

Enter your CBA details in the CBA system (available on APEGS Central account through the CBA Login).

With every job position/project, you will have to:

• Write about yourself and the company and your duties
• Choose the competencies relevant
• Write good descriptions of how you evidenced each skill
• Name exact standards, codes or software utilized
• Make your answers professional with a little touch of personal and honest answers

Hint: write in bullets or relatively short paragraphs. It helps assessors to trail it with ease.

Step 4: Assign Validators

Every idea concerning work experience should be approved by a person managing or directly in collaboration with you. Such an individual will ensure that your assertions are valid.

The validators are possible to be:

• Professional engineer (P.Eng.) of Canada
• Or a foreigner possessing similar engineering qualification
• Your boss, superior or older colleague

APEGS will reach out to your validator, and ensure that you have an updated contact information because they will be contacting them via email.

Step 5: Submit and Monitor

After every section is filled and validators allocated:

• Edit your posts
• Online submission of your report or the system of CBA
• Monitor your application in your APEGS Central dashboard

It may take 8 to 12 weeks on processing depending on the amount of applications. APEGS will inform you in case of revisions arising.

Why This is Important for Immigrant Engineers

Engineers Canada indicates that the proportion of internationally trained engineers coming in to be licensed is more than 25% last 5 years. Moreover, a 2024 report by Statistics Canada revealed that engineering is among the best professional areas in which the immigrants enrich the Canadian economy.

However, this is the thing, more than 60% of internationally educated engineers (IEEs) complained that they faced problems in getting licensing just because they did not know how to fill in the experience report.

And hence, even when you find yourself in the middle of this read and you realize you have no idea what on earth is going on, you are not alone. You are not the first one in such shoes.

Tips to Make It Easier

• Write off notes of every job – Take notes as you reach them. Don t wait after several years to recollect what you did.
• Always employ action words - Introduce the sentences with such words as designed, analyzed, led, developed, etc.
• Have a closed loop on engineering work- Do not be overly concerned with administrative work and those that are irrelevant in relation to engineering.
• Be honest- APEGS might crosscheck your statements and you should therefore never lie.

Is Your Report Truly Submission-Ready?

• Have you made your job role well understood?
• Have you selected powerful and related projects to describe?
• Are your contributions in technical aspects paperwork satisfactory?
• Did you evade copy pasting of samples or AI?
• Do you have everything in your own words to display your personal development?

Do you answer, no, to any of these--don not be troubled. You are not the only one. Most engineers opt to have their reports written or edited by other people and that is not a bad idea.

Your APEGS Work Experience Report submission is a major milestone and it must be perfect at the first attempt.Take the trouble to tell how you got it. Demonstrate what you have accomplished, how you have developed and why you are now ready to be a licensed engineer in Saskatchewan.

With help of Writing Ahead, polish your experience story, and APEGS can get a glimpse of your complete potential.

Start now and step closer to your career in Canadian engineering.