Writing your examples.
In your own words, from your own record.
To write a competency example: pick one situation from your work that shows the competency, set the scene in a sentence, say what you did and decided and why, give the result, and check every fact against your records. Write it yourself, in the first person, and keep it specific.
Step by step
- Read the competency and its indicators in your regulator's guide.
- Choose the situation where your own judgment shows most clearly.
- Set the scene: the project type, your role and the date, in a sentence or two.
- Say what you did: the actions and decisions that were yours, with codes, numbers or limits.
- Give the outcome, and anything you learned or would change.
- Check every date, number and claim against your notes, and ask your validator to confirm it.
How long
Follow your regulator's guide where it gives a limit. Where it doesn't, Gusset's own suggestion is 150 to 250 words: long enough for the situation, your actions and the result, short enough to stay on one competency.
On using AI
Some regulators don't allow AI to create or embellish your experience examples, and every example has to be true and yours. Use tools to organize your facts and check your draft, not to write it. Gusset keeps you on the right side of your regulator's AI rules: Gus lays out your facts and an outline, and checks what you wrote without rewriting it.
“Note that the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and third parties to create or embellish workplace examples is strictly prohibited.”
Sources: APEGNB, Competency-Based Assessment guidelines; PEO, Navigating Competency-Based Assessment (2024); Competency Assessment System, for applicants. Your regulator's current guide is the authority.
Gusset is independent and not affiliated with or endorsed by any engineering regulator.