Hi Mark,

You should provide your full career history, but the older part can be with a lot less detail as they are wanting to know the detail of what you are doing now, not what you were doing last century. However if you omit parts of your career they will be in touch to find out why, so it is best not to have omissions.

Hi Mark,

As Alasdair says, you should provide a full career history.  However, you should keep the responsibilities and personal achievements for your early roles reasonably brief.  The guidance notes say somewhere around 3000 characters which is around 5 paragraphs, but this is not a hard goal or limit and you might need to be more thrifty if your application is approaching the 12-page limit.  The limit does not include the attachments, such as the accountability diagram, certificates, etc.  The guidance notes go on to state:

'Give an extended description of your current role, or the role that is most relevant to the 
demonstration of your current competence, giving details of your responsibilities together 
with any relevant metrics. You should aim to be very specific in your examples and if you 
have held lots of different roles, you should select examples that best illustrate your 
competence.'

Remember that the employment section is your only opportunity to demonstrate to the assessors that you possess and use the competencies deemed necessary for professional registration, so try to ensure that you include examples of your work that encompass as many of the competencies as you possibly can.

I'd also strongly recommend getting in touch with a PRA sooner rather than later.  It's so much easier to write an application correctly the first time than it is to do major corrections.