APEGS Work Experience Reporting Checklist: What Evaluators Look For

It can be quite stressful to prepare your APEGS work experience reporting, especially if your PEng application depends on it. You might question if your experience is adequate or if you got your point across the right way. The reality is, the APEGS assessors don’t expect perfection. They want clarity, honesty and clear evidence that you can practice safely and with confidence.

Complete Engineering Experience for Evaluation

Engineers who are assessing your application first want to see if your experience is relevant to your specific engineering discipline. Your duties should reflect actual engineering work, rather than purely managerial or support functions. When describing your APEGS work experience reporting, discuss how your work required you to analyse, design, make decisions or exercise technical judgement.

They want to know how you used engineering principles outside the classroom. What you did, why you did it, and how it impacted the project or the client.

Signs of Progressive Responsibility

One of the most important elements of the APEGS work experience reporting is showing growth. The assessors want to know how you’ve grown in responsibility. Early roles might call for assistance or education, while later roles might call for you to exercise leadership, work on your own, or make choices.

You need to describe your judgment, confidence, and/or the complexity of the projects that have increased. If you had been in the position for a long time. A change in job description is not always necessary when moving on.

Strict Supervision and Expert Evaluation Guaranteed

APEGS thoroughly investigates whether your work was under the supervision of registered professionals. You will need to identify clearly who your supervisor was and what position s/he holds/describes and how much supervision you were given. This applies to all work with APEGS.

Describe how reviews, critiques, or approvals influenced your engineering choices. If you previously operated independently, explain how you were allowed to assume risk and how compliance was ensured.

Demonstrated Competency In All Areas Requisite for the Position

The evaluators grade your experience by the APEGS competency areas. They include skill level, communication, teamwork, professional conduct, and ethics. Your apegs experience reporting should cover all the areas, and not be focused on just your technical know-how.

You need to talk about how you conveyed designs, dealt with safety issues, or made ethical choices. Because those examples are real make your application more powerful than generic statements.