Introduction To The APEGS Online CBA System

Before one becomes eligible to apply for their APEGS professional licence, they need to have four years of engineering working experience or geoscience working experience that must be evaluated by the Experience Review Committee.

Eligibility criteria:

To be eligible, you need to be registered as an engineering-in-training or geoscientist-in-training, or an APEGS member-in-training applicant with the option of work experience reporting to try and confirmatory exams waived.

Online CBA system:

The association uses an online competency-based assessment (CBA) system to evaluate the work experience of candidates. Aside from offering validated examples to demonstrate each of the competencies, possessing a minimum of four years of work experience validated in this online system is a must for you.

How to report work experience in the online CBA system?

Follow the below-listed steps for using this system to report work experience:

Reach the official website by typing https://competencyassessment.ca.

Choose the section of ‘Applicants’.

Make an account by means of your APEGS Registration/Application number as your User ID.

As your jurisdiction, pick ‘Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of Saskatchewan’.

An email notification will be sent to you when your account is approved. This may happen by taking five business days. These accounts are approved manually, Monday to Friday (8:00 to 5:00).

Reach the APEGS CBA system by picking ‘I am a registered user and would like to access the Competency Assessment System’.

Enter information by adhering to the instructions appearing on the screen. Your educational information doesn’t show in the online CBA system at this time.

If you face any problems with the system, contact the APEGS staff.

After the evaluation of your experience, the authority will send you the result the mail. If you don’t this exam for the first time, the authority will provide you with an opportunity to redo any competencies that didn’t satisfy the requirements.

Within a period of 6 to 8 weeks, you should get your assessment result after validations are completed. If APEGS doesn’t find your validators acceptable, it will let you know, and the validation process will happen again.

Paper-based work experience reporting:

If you have not already started your APEGS work experience reporting in the old paper-based system, complete your reporting in the paper-based system or, ideally, switch to the new competency-based assessment (CBA) system. If you have not begun your experience reporting, you must choose the online APEGS CBA system.

You will get your assessment result after a period of 6 to 8 weeks of the submission of your report. If there are any errors or omissions in the report, you will be informed to submit the report again.

APEGS CBA roles and responsibilities:

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

Applicant:

They have to provide experience details through the CBA system, including work experience chronology and specific examples to address each competency.

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

They have to provide contact information for a minimum of four individuals to act as validators to verify and provide feedback on their competency assessment. For those validators, who were not given particular competencies to validate, they need to provide an overall assessment. For example, if the applicant gave examples from only one supervisor, that supervisor validates all the examples and the other three validators offer general comments and answer the general reference questions that are in the CBA system. An applicant can’t act as their own validator.

The applicant has to provide extra information as requested.

Validator:

A validator must confirm the working experience information of which they have personal knowledge.

They offer Competence Level ratings for Competencies to which they are assigned by an applicant (if applicable).

The validator gives overall feedback on the applicant’s readiness for professional registration.

Assessor:

They need to review an applicant’s submission as well as the validators’ feedback.

Assessors provide ratings for each Competency.

The evaluator makes a recommendation on the applicant’s readiness for professional registration.