Week 7: Competencies

Question 1

What are the 4 general experience requirements?

Answer 1

• Min 4 years satisfactory engineering experience
• Ability to satisfy the Canadian environment competencies
• Min 4 validators
• Engineering experience that can adequately satisfy all required work experience competencies

Question 2

How many pre-grad hours can you claim towards competency?

Answer 2

1 year

Question 3

How many post-grad hours can you claim towards competency?

Answer 3

1 year for thesis-based Masters

2 years for thesis based Ph.D

Question 4

List the 7 competency categories

Answer 4

1. Technical
2. Communication
3. Project and Financial Management
4. Team Effectiveness
5. Professional Accountability
6. Social, Economic, Envionmental and Sustainability
7. Personal Continuing Professional Development

Question 5

What are the 3 parts to a competency example format?

Answer 5

• Situation
• Action
• Outcome

Question 6

What are Indicators?

Answer 6

Specific examples of acitivities, actions, skills or behaviours that demonstrate achievement of a key competency

Question 7

What is Validation?

Answer 7

When the individual you nominated is requested to confirm and comment on your experience / provide general feedback

Question 8

What is Assessment?

Answer 8

Occurs after validation, and is the stage where all 34 key competency examples are reviewed and rated along with feedback.

Question 9

List 3 ways which make a good competency example

Answer 9

• related to unique problems
• applicant takes full or partial responsibility for delivering outcome (use of “I”)
• well written without spelling mistakes