Do you desire an APEGS licence to work as a professional engineer or geoscientist in Saskatchewan (Canada)? If yes, then it is a must-know for you that you must have four years of engineering/geoscience work experience assessed. The Experience Review Committee must have assessed this experience before you become eligible to apply for your professional licence.

Eligibility:

For eligibility, you need to have a registration as an engineering-in-training or geoscientist-in-training. Moreover, you can also be a member-in-training, having a work experience reporting option to try and get confirmatory exams waived.

What is APEGS Competency-Based assessment (CBA) system?

The authority uses an online competency-based assessment (CBA) system to evaluate a candidate’s work experience. In this system, you must have a minimum of four years of work experience validated. For a positive assessment, provide validated examples to demonstrate each of the competencies.

Note:

From January 1, 2023, APEGS is using a new policy on acceptable Competency Assessment Validators. So, contact an APEGS expert to know more about it.

How to report work experience in the system?

Reach https://comepetencyassessment.ca.Select the section of ‘Applicants’.Stick to the instructions that appear on the screen.Create an account with your APEGS Registration/Application number (as your User ID).Select ‘Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of Saskatchewan’ as your jurisdiction.You will receive a mail notification on the approval of your account. All this make take at most 5 business days. These accounts are approved manually M-F 8:00 to 5:00.By choosing ‘I am a registered user and would like to access the Competency Assessment System’, reach the CBA system.Start putting your information adhering to the instructions appearing on the screen. This time, your educational information doesn’t show in this system.

On the assessment of your work experience, you will get the result by mail. If you don’t attain a positive assessment the first time, you will have the opportunity to redo any competencies. These competencies are those that didn’t fulfill the requirements.

You will get an APEGS experience reporting assessment result within 6 to 8 weeks after all validations are completed. If your validators are unacceptable, the authority will let you know. After that, the validation process will be redone.

Paper-Based Reporting:

Note: From January 1, 2024, APEGS will not accept paper-based work experience reports anymore. APEGS must receive all interim and final paper reports by DEC.31, 2023.

If having already started reporting your experience in the old paper-based system, complete your experience reporting in that system. Another option is to change to the new CBA system. If you have not already started this, use the online competency-based assessment system.

You should get the result of your assessment within 6 to 8 weeks after the submission of your report. If there are any omissions or errors in the report, the authority will inform you about them. After that, you need to re-submit the report.

Roles and responsibilities of each participant:

We have provided below an overview of the roles and responsibilities of each participant in the CBA system.

Applicant:

You need to provide work experience details by means of the system. So, include work experience chronology and specific examples to address each competency.

Offering a self-assessed Competence Level for each Competency as per the Competency Rating Scale is a must for you.

Give contact information for at least four individuals to act as Validators to verify your competency assessment. In addition, they need to offer feedback on your competency assessment. For those validators who were not given specific competencies to validate, they need to offer an overall assessment. For instance, if you provided examples from only one supervisor, that supervisor validates all the examples. The other three validators offer general comments and answer the general reference questions that are in the system. Another thing to remember is that you can’t act as your own validator.

If the authority requests you for further information, provide it.

Validators:

They need to confirm the work experience information of which they have personal knowledge.

The validators have to offer Competence Level ratings for the Competencies to which you have assigned them (if applicable).

You can’t act as your own validator.

They need to provide overall feedback on your readiness for professional registration.

Assessors:

Assessors have to review your submission and validators’ feedback.

They have to provide ratings for each Competency.

Assessors need to make a recommendation about your readiness for professional registration.

 

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