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CertNova helps P.Eng applicants with each stage of licensing. CBA Pro interviews you about your own projects and turns your answers into a Competency-Based Assessment draft. A licensed P.Eng reads finished drafts (CBA Draft Review) and returned CBAs (CBA Rejection Support). NPPE Pro prepares you for the exam, and career coaching helps with your next engineering role.

CertNova is for P.Eng applicants in Canada, whether your experience is Canadian or from abroad: people who are stuck on their CBA, unsure what their association expects, preparing for the NPPE, or looking for a better engineering role.

No. CertNova supports applicants across Canada. Our services are built around the competency-based assessment process used by Canadian engineering regulators, including applicants applying through provinces such as Ontario, Saskatchewan, Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, and others.

No. Nobody can promise approval; your regulator decides. What we can do is help you submit the clearest, most accurate version of your own experience. Our review service's record so far: 40+ CBAs reviewed since June 2025. No rejection reported back to us. We don't turn that into a rate, because not everyone tells us.

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No. CertNova does not replace the regulator, evaluator, validator, or official licensing process. CertNova provides tools, guidance, review, and coaching to help applicants better understand and complete the process.

No. CBA Pro interviews you about your own work, asking what your association looks for, and turns your CV and your answers into a formatted draft for you to review and improve, showing you where information is still missing. Our review and consulting services don't write for you either: a reviewer shows you what to change and you make the changes. Either way, your CBA must describe your own experience, and you stay responsible for what you submit.

Yes, when used properly. CertNova is designed to support ethical preparation. We help applicants understand expectations, improve structure, identify gaps, and communicate their own experience more clearly. We do not encourage copying, false claims, or outsourcing someone else’s experience as your own.

CertNova currently offers CBA Pro, NPPE Pro, CBA consulting, CBA draft review, rejection support, review against regulator comments, and career coaching for your next engineering role.

CBA Pro is software that interviews you about your own projects and turns your answers into a draft of each competency. Consulting is an hour on video with a P.Eng license holder, for strategy and comments on what you have. Some applicants use both: CBA Pro for the drafts, and consulting to talk through the hard competencies.

Draft review is for applicants who have not submitted yet and want feedback before submission. Rejection support is for applicants who already received comments, deficiencies, or rejection from the regulator and need help responding properly.

Yes. If you have drafts, CBA Draft Review has a licensed P.Eng read them line by line, and you can send one competency for a free read first. For the competencies you haven't written yet, CBA Pro interviews you about your own projects and turns your answers into drafts.

Yes. CBA Pro and consulting are especially useful if you are starting from zero. We help you understand the process, select stronger examples, structure your experience, and avoid common mistakes early.

Yes. If most of your CBA is written, a CBA Draft Review of what you have is the most direct next step. If most of it isn't, CBA Pro interviews you for the remaining competencies and turns your answers into drafts. Tell us your submission date when you book.

CBA Pro is CertNova’s software for preparing a P.Eng Competency-Based Assessment. It interviews you about your own work: it matches your projects to each competency, asks questions drawn from what your association looks for, then turns your CV and your answers into a formatted Situation, Action and Outcome draft for you to review and improve. Anything you haven't told it comes back as a bracket for you to fill, so every fact comes from you.

Getting the right information into each competency, accurately. Most applicants have the experience but don't know what assessors look for, which example fits each competency, or which details to include. CBA Pro asks you about exactly that, based on your association's indicators, turns your answers into a draft, and shows you where information is still missing.

CBA Pro is for P.Eng applicants who haven't written their competencies yet, or who need a new example for some of them. It works the same whether your experience is Canadian or from abroad. If your competencies are already written, CBA Draft Review is the better fit.

No. A CBA asks for more than good writing: the right example for each competency, matched to its indicators, with your own engineering judgment and decisions shown. Strong writers find that hard too.

CBA Pro interviews you about each competency, asking what your association looks for, then turns your answers into a Situation, Action and Outcome draft. It shows you which details are still missing, so you can add them from your own records before you submit.

Yes. CBA Pro is designed around the full competency-based assessment structure used by engineering regulators, including the technical, communication, project management, professional accountability, ethics, social, environmental, and personal development competency areas.

Yes. One of the main values of CBA Pro is helping you think through which work examples are stronger for each competency. A strong example should clearly show your role, engineering judgment, actions, decisions, and outcome.

Yes. CBA Pro asks about the projects you actually worked on, wherever they were. Your regulator decides whether your total experience meets its requirements.

Yes. Many applicants use international experience in their CBA. The key is explaining your engineering role, decision-making, standards, constraints, and outcomes clearly. CBA Pro helps you structure that experience properly.

Yes. CBA Pro helps you think through the competency requirements and match your experience to the right area. Consulting can also help if you need personalized example selection.

No. CBA Pro turns what you tell it into a draft of each competency, and you choose the examples, fill any bracket it leaves and decide the final wording. You stay responsible for what you submit.

EGBC, EGM, Engineers Nova Scotia and Engineers PEI prohibit using AI to create or embellish examples. CBA Pro is built to stay inside these rules: it doesn't create or embellish examples. Every fact in your draft comes from your CV and your answers, and you review and own every word. No regulator endorses CBA Pro, so read your own regulator's rule before you start.

What each regulator says about AI

You can use general AI tools carefully, but CBA Pro is built specifically for CBA preparation. Generic AI may miss regulator expectations, produce vague examples, or over-polish your writing in a way that weakens authenticity. CBA Pro is designed around the CBA process itself.

ChatGPT can help with wording, but it does not automatically understand your regulator’s expectations, your actual engineering responsibility, or the right level of evidence. CBA Pro gives a more structured and licensing-focused workflow.

CBA Pro vs ChatGPT, side by side

A freelancer may write polished text, but your CBA must reflect your own experience and professional judgment. CBA Pro is designed to help you become more self-sufficient, understand the process, and submit ethically with stronger ownership of your examples.

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It takes the blank page away: CBA Pro asks you questions and turns your answers into a draft, one competency at a time. How long the whole CBA takes still depends on your experience and how many competencies your association asks for.

If the feedback means a competency needs a different example, CBA Pro can interview you for that one and turn your answers into a draft. To rework a competency you have already written, a consulting session or CBA Draft Review is the better fit.

Only to start a competency fresh. If the comments mean a competency needs a new example, CBA Pro can interview you about another of your own projects and turn your answers into a draft. To understand the comments and rework what you already wrote, CBA Rejection Support is the right service.

No. CBA Pro is the software. A read by a licensed P.Eng is CBA Draft Review, a separate service, and the paid CBA Pro plans include 10 to 20% off it.

It is built for preparing competencies from the start, whatever your experience level. If you already have a complete draft, CBA Draft Review suits you better than CBA Pro.

The timeline depends on your experience, writing speed, and how much material you already have. Some applicants can make strong progress in a few days, while others take a few weeks to develop and refine their full submission.

Yes. You can work through the CBA step by step. Some applicants complete the easier competencies first, while others focus first on competencies where they already have strong project examples.

It gives a free readiness grade on every draft and names what is still thin. It can't tell you how your association will decide, because nobody can promise approval. If you want a person to read it, CBA Draft Review has a licensed P.Eng do that.

CertNova treats applicant information carefully and confidentially. You should only include truthful work experience and avoid sharing unnecessary sensitive information.

CBA consulting is personalized support for applicants who need help understanding the CBA process, selecting examples, improving competency responses, responding to feedback, or preparing a stronger submission.

You should consider CBA consulting if you feel stuck, confused by competency indicators, unsure whether your examples are strong enough, or under time pressure to complete your submission.

During a session, we review your situation, discuss your experience, identify gaps, and guide you on how to improve your competency examples. The session may focus on strategy, structure, specific competencies, validator concerns, or regulator comments.

Yes. Example selection is one of the most important parts of the CBA process. We help you identify which projects best demonstrate engineering judgment, responsibility, communication, ethics, project management, and technical competence.

Yes. We help you understand the intent behind the competencies and what kind of evidence is usually expected in a strong response.

Yes. Many applicants have enough experience but struggle to choose the right examples. Consulting can help you narrow your examples and avoid using weak or repetitive situations.

Consulting can help you assess whether your examples are strong enough and identify possible gaps. However, only your regulator can determine whether your experience fully meets the licensing requirements.

Yes. We can help you think through validator selection, how to prepare your draft for validator review, and how to respond professionally to validator feedback.

The validator rules depend on your regulator and situation. We can help you understand the general issue and prepare your experience more clearly, but final validator acceptance is determined by the regulator.

Yes. We can help you organize your work history, connect examples to validators, and reduce confusion in how your experience is presented.

Yes. Many applicants have experience across different roles or industries. Consulting can help you frame your transferable engineering experience clearly and connect it to the competencies.

Yes. Experienced applicants often struggle to condense years of work into clear competency examples. Consulting helps you select the most relevant examples and avoid writing too much or too vaguely.

Consulting sessions are with a P.Eng license holder. CBA Draft Review and Rejection Support are read by a licensed P.Eng. Reviews are led by Reza Kashi, P.Eng, CertNova's co-founder.

About Reza Kashi, P.Eng

One session is often enough to settle which examples to use. If you want your written competencies read in full, CBA Draft Review and Rejection Support are flat prices by competency band rather than hours.

Yes. Some applicants start with consulting to understand the process, then use CBA Pro to build the full submission. Others start with CBA Pro and add consulting when they need personalized support.

In CBA Draft Review a licensed P.Eng reads your written competencies line by line before you submit them, and comments on your own sentences: where an example describes the team rather than you, where a skill is claimed but never shown, and where the evidence is thin. It is a flat price by competency band: $297, $597 or $797.

Draft review is best for applicants who already wrote part or all of their CBA and want feedback before submission. It is especially useful if you are unsure whether your examples are specific, complete, and assessor-ready.

We look for clarity, structure, competency alignment, engineering judgment, personal responsibility, outcome, specificity, missing evidence, and whether the example directly answers the competency.

Yes. Depending on the package or scope, we can review selected competencies or the full CBA draft.

Yes. Many applicants request targeted review for the most difficult competencies, such as ethics, accountability, communication, project management, sustainability, or technical judgment.

We provide feedback, guidance, and improvement direction. The final wording should remain truthful and based on your own work. Depending on the service, we may help you restructure or improve clarity, but we do not create false experience or replace your professional responsibility.

Yes. The purpose of draft review is to identify what is weak, vague, missing, repetitive, or misaligned before the regulator sees it.

It looks for the problems assessors comment on, before you submit. Nobody can promise approval; your regulator decides.

Feedback can range from high-level strategy to detailed competency-by-competency comments, depending on the service selected.

Yes. That is one of the main purposes of the review. We check whether your examples appear to address the competency expectations and whether the evidence is strong enough.

Yes. We can help improve clarity, conciseness, professionalism, and flow. However, strong CBA writing is not just polished writing; it must also show real engineering action and judgment.

Yes. A rough draft is often enough to start. We can help identify what needs more detail, what should be removed, and what should be strengthened.

Yes. We can review it, but we may flag sections that sound generic, over-polished, vague, or disconnected from your real engineering experience.

Common problems include vague examples, too much teamwork language, not enough personal action, weak outcomes, missing engineering decisions, unclear standards, no lessons learned, and examples that do not directly match the competency.

Ideally, yes. A stronger draft can make the validator review process smoother and reduce unnecessary back-and-forth.

Yes, especially if you are unsure about alignment or have not received professional feedback. A pre-submission review can help catch issues before they become regulator comments.

CBA rejection support is for applicants who received rejection, deficiencies, or major comments from their engineering regulator and need help understanding what went wrong and how to revise the submission.

You should use rejection support if your CBA was rejected, returned for revision, flagged as insufficient, or received detailed comments that you do not know how to address.

Yes. We help you interpret the comments, identify the real issue behind them, and plan a stronger response.

Yes. This is one of the most important parts of rejection support. We compare your original or revised draft against the comments to make sure your response directly addresses the concerns.

Yes. Sometimes the issue is weak wording, but sometimes the example itself is not strong enough. We help you decide whether to revise the current example or choose a better one.

Yes. We help you build a practical revision plan so your resubmission is more focused, complete, and aligned with the feedback.

That is common. Regulator comments can be brief or difficult to interpret. We help break the comments down and identify what evidence may be missing.

Yes. We can focus only on the competencies that received comments or deficiencies.

Yes. If many competencies were rejected, we usually recommend a broader review to identify patterns such as weak structure, unclear personal role, lack of engineering judgment, or poor example selection.

No. Nobody can promise approval; your regulator decides. Rejection Support helps you answer each comment clearly, so the same issue is less likely to come back.

Yes. We help you prepare a response strategy that is professional, specific, and focused on addressing the deficiencies rather than arguing with the regulator.

Yes. Many applicants feel stressed after receiving comments or rejection. Our role is to help you turn the feedback into a clear action plan and move forward.

Yes. Draft review is preventive and happens before submission. Rejection support is corrective and focuses on regulator feedback, deficiencies, and resubmission strategy.

Yes. To support you properly, we need to see the comments or feedback you received, along with the relevant competency responses.

Yes. We look for patterns in the feedback and help you revise not only the rejected sections but also the way you approach the rest of your submission.

NPPE Pro is CertNova’s preparation platform for the National Professional Practice Examination. It helps applicants study professional practice, ethics, law, and exam-style scenarios through structured practice.

NPPE Pro is for engineering applicants preparing to write the NPPE as part of their P.Eng. licensing process in Canada.

NPPE Pro includes exam-style practice questions, structured study support, and preparation tools to help applicants review important NPPE topics more effectively.

Yes. NPPE Pro includes a large set of practice questions designed to help applicants prepare for the style and reasoning required on the exam.

No. NPPE Pro can help both first-time writers and applicants who are rewriting the exam.

Yes. If your exam is close, NPPE Pro can help you focus your remaining study time on practice, review, and identifying weak areas.

Nobody can promise a result, but two plans, Pass Assurance and Guided, come with this promise: Complete everything and don't pass? Get your money back, plus free access to prepare again.† † Pass Assurance: finish every lesson, answer every practice question, review every flashcard and complete all 4 mock exams before your sitting, then claim within 30 days of your official result. One claim per person. The full terms are at www.nppepro.ca/pass-assurance.

NPPE Pro helps with professional practice, ethics, law, responsibility, public safety, professional conduct, and other areas commonly tested on the NPPE.

Reading is important, but many applicants struggle to apply concepts to exam-style scenarios. NPPE Pro helps you practice decision-making, reasoning, and application through questions.

Depending on the plan, NPPE Pro can help you identify areas where you may need more practice or review.

Use NPPE Pro to practice consistently, review explanations, identify weak topics, and simulate the type of reasoning needed for the exam.

Yes. Many applicants use NPPE Pro alongside official references, notes, and textbooks.

Yes. The NPPE tests Canadian professional practice, ethics and law, which is often new if your experience is from abroad, and NPPE Pro explains every answer as well as testing you.

It is built for P.Eng applicants. Geoscience applicants write the same NPPE, so the material applies to them too.

The earlier you start, the better. However, even applicants with limited time can benefit from focused practice and review.

NPPE Pro can help you rebuild your preparation strategy, practice more effectively, and identify areas that may need more attention before your next attempt.

CertNova provides career coaching for engineering professionals who want to find their next role, improve their resume, position their experience better, prepare for interviews, and communicate their value more clearly.

Career coaching is for engineering and technical professionals in Canada, licensed or not, who want a better role, a first Canadian engineering job, or a move into a new industry.

Yes. We help you improve your positioning, resume, LinkedIn profile, job search strategy, networking approach, and interview preparation so you can pursue stronger opportunities.

Yes. We can help rewrite, restructure, and improve your resume so it better highlights your technical experience, project impact, leadership, tools, and professional value.

Yes. We can help improve your LinkedIn headline, about section, experience descriptions, and positioning so recruiters and hiring managers understand your value faster.

Yes. We can help you prepare for behavioral, technical, project-based, and competency-style interviews. We can also help you turn your project experience into strong interview stories.

Yes. We help you present experience gained abroad for the Canadian job market and target roles where it counts.

Yes. We can help you identify transferable experience, improve your resume language, and build a practical job search strategy. However, landing a role depends on the market, your background, and your execution.

Yes. We can help you position your technical experience, coordination skills, stakeholder communication, scheduling, budgeting, and leadership experience for project management roles.

Yes. We can help you frame your experience around client communication, problem-solving, project delivery, technical judgment, and business impact.

Yes. We help you build clear STAR stories from your engineering experience so you can answer interview questions with stronger structure and confidence.

Yes. We can help you prepare for compensation conversations, understand your value, and communicate professionally during negotiation.

Career coaching focuses on strategy, positioning, and preparation. Depending on the service, we may help you identify target roles and improve application materials, but you should remain actively involved in your job search.

Yes. We can help you identify realistic and strategic roles based on your background, licensing status, technical skills, location, and career goals.

Yes. We can help you adjust your positioning so your application matches the level and expectations of the role.

CBA Pro: one competency free, then $97, $197 or $297 one-time. CBA Draft Review and CBA Rejection Support: $297, $597 or $797, by how many competencies you send. Consulting with a P.Eng: $97 for 30 minutes, $147 for an hour or $297 for two hours. NPPE Pro: three one-time plans after a 14-day free trial, with prices in the NPPE Pro section of this page. All prices are in Canadian dollars.

Yes. Many applicants start with a smaller service such as CBA Pro, NPPE Pro, or a focused review, then add consulting or rejection support as needed.

No. You can choose the service that matches your current stage. For example, if you are preparing for the NPPE, start with NPPE Pro. If you are writing your CBA, start with CBA Pro or draft review. If you received comments, start with rejection support.

Choose based on your current problem. If you are starting your CBA, use CBA Pro. If your draft is almost ready, use draft review. If you received regulator comments, use rejection support. If you are preparing for the NPPE, use NPPE Pro. If you are job searching, use career coaching.

Yes. CertNova offers one-on-one support through consulting, draft review, rejection support, and career coaching.

Consulting is booked by time: $97 for 30 minutes, $147 for a 1-hour video session or $297 for a 2-hour package. CBA Draft Review and Rejection Support are flat prices by competency band, not hourly.

Yes. CertNova’s digital products and services are typically paid online through secure payment options.

Yes. If you need an invoice for your records, you can request one from the CertNova team.

Yes. Many applicants use CertNova as part of professional development, licensing support, or career advancement. You can ask your employer whether they will cover the cost.

Start with CBA Pro and run one competency free. Add a consulting hour if you want a P.Eng license holder to talk through your examples.

For the competencies still to write, use CBA Pro. For the ones you have written, send one competency for a free read, then choose CBA Draft Review for the rest.

Use CBA draft review before submission. This helps identify weak examples, missing evidence, and alignment issues.

Use rejection support or draft review against comments. This helps you understand the feedback and revise your submission strategically.

Use NPPE Pro. It is designed to help applicants practice exam-style questions and prepare more effectively.

Use CBA Pro, CBA consulting, or draft review depending on how much progress you have already made.

Use CertNova career coaching to improve your resume, LinkedIn, interview stories, and job search strategy.

Start by identifying your biggest bottleneck: CBA writing, CBA review, rejection comments, NPPE preparation, or job search. Then choose the service that directly solves that problem.

CertNova treats applicant information with care. Your work experience, draft, comments, and personal career details should only be used to support the service you requested.

For draft review or rejection support, yes, we need to see the relevant sections to provide useful feedback. For general consulting, you may only need to share selected competencies or questions.

For rejection support or review against comments, yes. The comments are essential because the revision strategy must respond directly to what the regulator flagged.

No. You are responsible for your own application and submission. CertNova helps you prepare, review, and improve your materials.

No, not unless there is a specific agreed process. In general, communication with validators and regulators remains your responsibility.

No. Approved examples can be useful for learning structure, but copying someone else’s experience is unethical and can harm your application. Your CBA must reflect your own work.

Yes, as long as it remains truthful. We help you communicate your real experience more clearly, specifically, and professionally.

We can help you identify gaps, choose better examples, and explain your work more clearly. If there are true experience gaps, we may recommend gaining additional experience before submission.

Yes. Ethical framing is important. We help you avoid exaggeration while still presenting your responsibilities and engineering judgment clearly.

Yes. Many applicants struggle with these sections. We can help you identify real examples that demonstrate professional responsibility, ethical judgment, public safety, accountability, and awareness of limitations.

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Yes, but the support should be focused. A targeted review or consulting session may be more useful than trying to rebuild everything from scratch.

CBA Draft Review: a licensed P.Eng reads every competency you send, line by line, before you submit.

Choose rejection support or review against regulator comments. Do not simply resubmit with small edits unless you understand what the regulator flagged.

Yes. CertNova supports both parts of the licensing journey through CBA Pro, CBA services, and NPPE Pro.

Yes. CertNova can help with your P.Eng. pathway and your career positioning, including resume, LinkedIn, interview preparation, and role targeting.

The best first step is to identify where you are in the journey: starting your CBA, reviewing a draft, responding to comments, preparing for the NPPE, or searching for your next role. CertNova has a service for each stage.