For Federal Skilled Worker (FSW) eligibility, having several short jobs (e.g., 8 months, 7 months) that add up to 3.5 years total is not automatically disqualifying — but the continuity rule matters.
What group members advised:- At least one continuous block of work experience is required. FSW requires at least 1 year of continuous full-time (or equivalent part-time) skilled work experience.
- The remaining experience can be split, but only if the gaps are effectively zero. One member gave a concrete example: work from January 1 to June 30 at Company X, immediately followed by July 1 to December 31 at Company Y, can be treated as continuous experience because there's no gap between the two jobs — even though they're with different employers.
- True gaps between jobs break continuity. If there are actual gaps (unemployment periods) between the short stints, those periods won't count toward the continuous-experience requirement, even though the total years of experience (3.5 years) look sufficient on paper.
Bottom line: check whether at least one unbroken 12-month stretch exists in the work history (even spanning two back-to-back employers with no gap) before assuming this experience qualifies for FSW.