Work experience calculator
Work experience calculator
Add up to five stints of employment and see the combined experience in years and months against the requirement a notification asks for.
How this is calculated
Each period is measured from its start date to its end date, then summed in months and days. Overlapping stints are not merged — count a post once.
- Most notifications accept experience only when it is certified by an employer on letterhead, and often only after the qualifying qualification was obtained.
Posts that ask for prior experience want a total, not a list. Add each certified period and compare the sum against the requirement in the notification.
How a commission reads an experience claim
Experience is normally accepted only when an employer has certified it on a letterhead, with the designation and the dates, and only for work done after the qualifying qualification for the post was obtained. Periods of study, internship without a stipend and self-employment that no one certifies are usually set aside at scrutiny.
Most notices also ask for experience in a specific subject — the same discipline as the post, or a named system, or work at a named level. A total built from unrelated jobs may clear the number and still fail the requirement.
Overlapping periods
The calculator sums the stints as entered and does not merge overlaps, because two jobs held at once are counted once, not twice, by a scrutiny committee. Enter concurrent posts as a single period covering the span, and keep the certificate that covers it.
Questions readers ask
The notice asks for “two years of experience”. Is 23 months enough?
No, unless the notice expressly accepts the balance in part. Two years means two completed years, and an applicant short by a month is treated as short by a month at the cut-off date, which is why the tool reports the total in years and months rather than as a rounded figure.
Does the experience have to be continuous?
Usually it has to be continuous in the relevant post or discipline, and gaps between stints are not counted. Several short periods in the same field may be summed where the notice allows “experience in”, but where it says “continuously engaged in”, read the certificate, not the total.
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