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by noddy214 » Thu Dec 02, 2004 5:03 am
Gunjan,
I am afraid, there is no standard format for Experience Letter. Besides Experience Letters are customised according to your function as well as the industry you belong to.
The key requirement of an Experience Letter from HO point of view is being as detailed as possible. Also make sure the key responsibilities you have mentioned in your experience letters match to the ones somebody at your level in UK would be doing.
To put more clarity in what I am trying to express, let me give you the details of what I did for myself.
Professionally, I have been a sales person for past 9+ years in Financial Information industry. The kind of selling I am involved into is a specialisation in itself. But knowing HO and caseworker, I am sure they would not understand that.
So what I did was to go on the net and look out for job advertisments for sales professionals in my industry. From the advertisments, I took out all the criteias and skill sets advertised by the employer. The re-drafted the entire content as part of my experience or responsibilities. Ofcourse, I ensured that whatever I write in my draft experience letter is true in its entirity as my employers would have never agreed to write anything that was not true.
So since you are a doctor, I suggest what you do is look up various recruitment ads for doctors in UK. Look closely at what is mentioned out there. Re-write the whole thing so that it reflects that you are capable of all that is mentioned and request your hospital to give you the letter.
Also since mine is a very specialised industry, I had added the Corporate Profile of all my employers. So even if the case worker went through that document, they would get an idea about the kind of company I worked for and the kind of services offered by my company. Getting a corporate profile is easy as every organisation has a website and we just have to go and take a print out of the "About Us" section.
Hope this helps.
Noddy
