2024-2025: Complete Guide For CDR Report Writing

Documents you need to submit with CDR Report

• Recent passport-size photo
• The page of your current passport with your photo and name on it
• Academic degree certificate
• Complete and official academic transcript
• Updated CV or Resume
• IELTS or TOEFL iBT result
• Name Change documentation (if applicable)
• Professional Registration Certificate (if applicable)
• Documentary Evidences of Employment for the last one year as well as employment as mentioned in Career Episodes you mention in CDR Report

Here is a quick CDR Report Writing Guide for You

• How to write a CPD

CPD stands for Continuing Professional Development. It means that it includes all that you did to keep up-to-date of the latest developments in your field after your undergraduate qualification.

The CPD for Engineers Australia has to be provided in a list format. It should not be one page long (in an A4 size sheet). The list may include the details:

• your postgraduate study details (even if it is a distance course),
• conferences you attended,
• material you prepared and presented in various courses, conferences, seminars and symposia,
• volunteering or mentoring work you did related to your engineering profession,
• short-term courses, workshops, seminars, technical meetings and inspections, and discussions you attended, and
• books, journals or manuals you studied to gain more knowledge about the field.

Sample CPD

Serial #	Training Title	Start Date	Finish Date	Duration	Venue	Training Organization
1	MS Visio Training	DD/MM/YYYY	DD/MM/YYYY	Days	Address	Name of Organization
2	ASTM	–	–	–	–	–
3	Work Health & Safety	–	–	–	–	–
4	ISO 9001 Certificate	–	–	–	–	–

• How to Write a Career Episode (Click here to read in detail)
• How to Write a Summary Statement (Click here to read in detail)

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Features of a Good CDR Report

Characteristics of a good CDR are:

• Remember, the Career Episodes aim to showcase your skills as a Professional Engineer, Engineering Technologist, Engineering Associate, or Engineering Manager. Hence, choose them carefully to demonstrate the competency elements for the engineering category in which you are applying.
• Use correct Australian English. A CDR report is also supposed to show your communication skills to the EA assessor.
• One of the key features of an effective CDR is that it keeps off any extraneous details that Engineers Australia doesn’t ask for. For example, EA doesn’t want to know the history of your company, achievements of your team, or the market size or share of your past employer. It only concerns itself with your role in the company and your personal contribution to your organisation as an engineer.
• Be ready to substantiate all your claims with documents and evidences. Show proof of results you claim to achieve.
• EA prescribes prescriptive writing style for Career Episodes. These episodes should be written in first person – in an active voice. It means that you should use words like I researched, I planned, I measured etc.
• Engineers Australia asks you to write a Summary Statement where you have to analyse how each paragraph you wrote in your ‘Career Episodes’ relate to the competency elements for the Skilled Migration category you are applying for. It means that you have to remain relevant at all times or you will lose ‘analysis’ points.

CDRReport experts suggest that some of the ways in which you can show that how capable you are as an engineer is to talk about technical challenges or problems you faced during a project, gauge the gravity in terms of losses your company would have incurred, steps you took as an engineer to solve the problem, and rewards and recognitions you received for your efforts.

To know more about what to include in your CDR, contact our experts at info@cdrreport.org.