Please make sure that for each non-academic, employment, research and rural entry, you provide the contact information of a person who can confirm details about your involvement in the activity. These verifiers can be contacted at any time during the application cycle and, where possible, please include both the verifier’s e-mail address and phone number. It is not advisable to use one contact for verification of numerous activities. Family members or close friends should not be used as verifiers except where appropriate (e.g. solo travel experiences).
Remember that if you don’t clearly provide a verifier, or if there are discrepancies between the details in your application and those confirmed by the verifier, notes are added and may affect your file – and you don’t want that! Please review your details carefully and double-check your hours, dates, etc with the verifier if necessary. In addition, make sure your verifier’s contact information is accurate before submitting your application.
Some applicants have noted that there aren’t sufficient characters within the contact information box to be able to provide the complete email for some verifiers who have unusually long addresses. If this is the case, you can add this information in the description box for the activity.
This blog entry states:
Please make sure that for each non-academic, employment, research and rural entry, you provide the contact information of a person who can confirm details about your involvement in the activity.
However, there does not appear to be a field for verifiers in the research section of the online application. Are we, in fact, required to add verifiers in some other field for this portion of the application?
There is a drop-down menu under Research. If you select Research/Lab Experience you are asked to supply your Supervisor’s name & contact information.
Do verifier addresses in the description box count towards the character limit? If not, it seems the entry will not add if there is more than 250, so is there a way around this?
And, would the same apply to breakdowns of hours spent in activities that are not consistent throughout the year? Thanks.
Unfortunately all information included in the description box counts towards the 250 character limit. There is no way around this.
If we are self employed (ie tutor) and have say 10 students, do we put the verifer as a parent of one of the students only? If so, they wouldn’t be able to verify the number of hours I spend with my 9 other students, so how should I indicate that?
The blog is not the best place to ask specific questions about your application. Please re-send your questions through the online application system.