Monday, 22 July 2013
Employer Reference Letters
It is crucial to note that the New Zealand EWRB will not accept reference letters unless they are on original company letterheads and signed by an appointed person. Reference letter cannot contain general discussion with regards to experience but must indicate specific jobs completed, tools used and days, weeks, months and years on the job. Important to note that Linesmen need to prove 2 years and Electricians 4 years relevant experience. Apprenticeship time may be included to make up the years experience.
EWRB Documentation Requirements
You HAVE to prove that you have at least 4 years experience in your field for the role that you have applied for.
Experience can include apprenticeship.
If you cannot proof this, the EWRB will reject your application.
Just providing a CV is NOT enough - the EWRB cannot just take your word that you have done it, they want to see a detailed reference letter from previous / current employers stating exactly what you have done.
This means that your previous and/or current employer or supervisor has to state the exact number of years, months, days that you have actually done a specific related job on a company letterhead.
Please consider making a bullet pointed letter with ALL your experience (including days/ months / years experience with each aspect of your job), and send that to your previous / current supervisor and ask the person nicely to just put that on a company letterhead to confirm.
Detail that the EWRB is after is for example: detail on specific installation or maintenance of fittings or conductors; detail of multi phase experience on appliances or fittings; detail on connection or disconnection of fittings/appliances to a power supply etc etc.
The above will save you a whole heap of trouble and not to mention time!!
Once again, the EWRB deals with thousands of applications from all around the world and the administrators do not have the authority to 'make judgement calls' or 'use their own discretion' (they probably know just a little more than I do), so they have to abide by strict rules and regulations as to what they can accept as evidence of your experience.
If you have already submitted your application to the EWRb and you think that maybe your application does not comply to the above, please get that additional information asap and get it through to the EWRB / David as soon as possible!
Experience can include apprenticeship.
If you cannot proof this, the EWRB will reject your application.
Just providing a CV is NOT enough - the EWRB cannot just take your word that you have done it, they want to see a detailed reference letter from previous / current employers stating exactly what you have done.
This means that your previous and/or current employer or supervisor has to state the exact number of years, months, days that you have actually done a specific related job on a company letterhead.
Please consider making a bullet pointed letter with ALL your experience (including days/ months / years experience with each aspect of your job), and send that to your previous / current supervisor and ask the person nicely to just put that on a company letterhead to confirm.
Detail that the EWRB is after is for example: detail on specific installation or maintenance of fittings or conductors; detail of multi phase experience on appliances or fittings; detail on connection or disconnection of fittings/appliances to a power supply etc etc.
The above will save you a whole heap of trouble and not to mention time!!
Once again, the EWRB deals with thousands of applications from all around the world and the administrators do not have the authority to 'make judgement calls' or 'use their own discretion' (they probably know just a little more than I do), so they have to abide by strict rules and regulations as to what they can accept as evidence of your experience.
If you have already submitted your application to the EWRb and you think that maybe your application does not comply to the above, please get that additional information asap and get it through to the EWRB / David as soon as possible!
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