Jane and Russ Middleton

We have gone through the TRA application form, are you expected to get in touch with all employers for the last 20 years ?? That is a really tricky one as some of them are not there now .... What do we do ? HELP

Perthforme

Get the refrences from the ones you can and those that have ceased trading you will have to do a stat dec at the solicitors explaning that they no longer exsist but you worked for them .
Good luck

CORKER

Just try not to leave any gaps in your time line...Get references where possible and make sure you make STAT DECS for those other misssing periods.. Don't give them any chance to query your application...the more paperwork the better..
CORKER

Louiselondon

Ive just finished my paperwork and got references from previous and present employer, however they dont go into detail about which tools I used, and every job I did. Most of them just say that I was employed as a hairdresser between blah and blah - Ive gone into HUGE detail about work I have done drawing colour wheels and all sorts and listed all the tools I use but I hear that the references bit may let me down as there is not enough detail.
Anybody else got experience of this?

Any guidance is greatly appreciated

Louise

alkristensen

Yes, write the refs yourself and then take then in for the old bosses to sign and put it on leeterheaed paper. If they havent got that, then use a business card from them,colour photocopy it to make it look like a leeterhead, then put it through your printer with all the ref you typed(after they have checked the info) and get them to sign it!

the more work you do for them the less they have to, and if all of the info is true, then dimia cant really say anything. I think they would understand if most bosses from 20 yrs ago wouldnt have time for you or a 3 page ref!!

good luck

alk

cranni

yes that happened with us. My husband did his time with British Gas, as you know it is now Transco, he did a stat declaration, it was like a book, me and my sister typed it between us, our agent said it was the best he had seen. If i have it i will send it to u as and example, as our agent is now using it for examples. Denise

alneve2oz

If you have a digital copy that you didn't mind sharing, I'd love to read it, because my requirement for a stat dec is assured - I have few formal qualifications, but extensive experience (for my young 26 years) in the IT industry, the problem is, is that it is virtually all from the same company, which has now ceased trading, I am however still able to contact my former boss, and I still have a copy of the reference they gave me a little over a year ago when they went belly up.

I was wondering if anyone can explain in more detail exactly what a statutory declaration would involve, evidence, costs, etc.

If anyone has any ideas or has been in a similar situation, I'd love to hear your views...

AJ.

karenjc

They are looking for your past and present employer to state what equipment you used and how you went about using them. What we did was write the letters ourselves and asked them to copy them on there headed paper ( s*%t i hope the TRA are not watching ) Just as someone has said you can not give them enough detail

Jonahs_mummy

If anyone interested, this is the stat dec template we used...

paul&ruth

as most people seem to be saying....get technical, in-depth call it what you want. what you think may be too much info will/may not be enough for the tra. took us 6mnths to get it something like before we sent it.
dont list day to day stuff and think it will be ok as a minimum my refs were at least 5 a4 sheets long from employers stating in quite a lot of detail the job that i did, general duties day2day equipment etc etc.
write it down once then you'll think of something that should be in there...then do it all again....as i said get deep, the outcome of the assessment is in somebody's hands so impress the pants off them wherever possible!

hutchy59

Hi Denise
Would you be able to send that to us? I know it will be a great help, I just don't know where to start. I am trying to obtain references, but some companies are no longer trading and even the one's which are, are not very helpful, but I have got some really good advice from this site.
Thanks very much
Davey