It can look like a system glitch when updating your Express Entry profile suddenly bumps your Canadian or foreign work experience points higher than you calculated by hand — but group members explained this is usually just how the system rounds partial years, not an error.
What group members advised:- The system counts experience in whole months, and rounds a partial final month up. For example, if your job started in June and you update your profile in the first week of the following May, that's technically 11 full months plus a few days — but the system may count it as a full 12th month, bumping you into the next experience tier.
- The exact number of months you enter for a job directly drives which experience-points tier you land in, so double-check the start and end dates you've entered rather than assuming the total is wrong.
If your resulting CRS score changes because of this and you receive an invitation based on it, it's worth reviewing your entered dates carefully — but the jump itself is very likely explainable by the system's month-counting method, not a bug.