Questions about the competency desk

It is a drafting and checking desk for the competency-based assessment of engineering experience. You keep your experience records and validators, write a Situation, Action and Outcome for each competency against the character limit, rate yourself, and the desk checks months of experience, minimum ratings, category averages and validator rules, each with the guide it comes from. It prints a full draft, a coverage summary and a packet for each validator.

No. It never writes, rewrites, suggests or completes example text, and it has no AI, no phrase bank and no sample paragraphs. It counts, checks and organises what you write. Engineers and Geoscientists BC forbids AI-written or third-party-written examples, and every regulator expects examples to describe your own work in your own words.

No. Competency Desk does not determine your assessment outcome; the regulator's assessors decide. The desk compares your own self-ratings and records with the published minimums. Assessors rate your examples themselves, and their ratings are the ones that count.

Only in this browser, on this device, in local storage. There is no account and no server, and nothing you type is uploaded. Export a backup file to keep a copy or to move to another device, and add a passphrase if you want the file encrypted.

Three profiles: Professional Engineers Ontario (34 competencies), APEGA in Alberta (22 competencies), and the shared competency system used by Engineers and Geoscientists BC, APEGS, Engineers and Geoscientists Manitoba, Engineers and Geoscientists New Brunswick, Engineers PEI and PEGNL (34 competencies). Each profile lists the documents it was built from and the date they were read.

Because the current guide we could read does not print them. APEGA's July 2026 guide states 400, 1,800 and 400 characters, and PEO's February 2026 CBA application form prints 300, 1,650 and 300, so both are confirmed. The shared system numbers come from its 2017 guide, since the April 2024 edition prints none. Open your portal, read the limit on each box, and enter it in Settings on the desk; the counters then use your number.

Every character counts, including spaces, punctuation and line breaks. Each line break counts as one character by default; if your portal counts a line break as two, switch that on in Settings. Blank lines and bullet points are flagged because a portal box can overflow visually before the character limit is reached.

Competency Desk is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to Professional Engineers Ontario, APEGA, Engineers and Geoscientists BC, Engineers Canada or any other engineering regulator. Regulator names appear only to say which published rules a profile follows.

They are deleted, and nobody can recover them, because they were never stored anywhere else. Export a backup file from the desk regularly and keep it somewhere safe.

Yes. Each profile keeps its own examples, so you can draft for Ontario and Alberta side by side. Your experience records and validators are shared between profiles.