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Detail your industry experience 8  \nStep 5. List your education and training 10  \nStep 6. Attach a letter of recommendation 10  \nStep 7. Complete the survey 11  \nStep 8. Attach additional information 11  \nStep 9. Pay the application fee 11  \nWhat else do I need to know about the exam? 11  \nI have questions. Who do I call? 12  \nCopyright © 2020 Canadian Construction Association  \nNotification concerning the Gold Seal application portal  \nWe are migrating to a new system andwill close the current application portal to new applications on April 6, 2020. We encourage potential applicants to read this guide to understand what they will need for their application. Please complete this form to be notified when we start accepting applications again.  \nExisting applicants have until April 30 to submit their application for review in the current portal. Your application will either be approved or you will be given a statement of how many credits you currently have, and what is missing to reach the 100 credits required to write the Gold Seal exam.  \nWhat is in this guide?  \nThis guide contains information about the Canadian Construction Association’s (CCA) Gold Seal Certification program, the designations we certify and the application process. Use it to understand whether you’re ready to become a Gold Seal Intern or to take the Gold Seal exam. It also contains information about the documents you’ll need to have handy if you apply to either program.  \nWhat is Gold Seal Certification?  \nThe Gold Seal Certification program establishes, administers and continuously improves national professional certification standards for construction management. It certifies construction management professionals against these standards and promotes their accredited education and training.  \nApplicants require a combination of industry experience, education and training to take the exam and become certified.  \nWhat designation to apply for?  \nWe certify estimators, foremen, owner’s construction managers, project managers, safety coordinators and superintendents. Seethe occupational profiles posted on the Gold Seal exam page regarding how we define these designations. Note that we are currently updating all occupational profiles (as well as exam question banks and sample questions). For estimators, project managers and superintendents, we are eliminating disciplines and consolidating the current five discipline-specific occupational profiles to one non-discipline specific occupational profile and exam per designation. All applicants will receive an email when the new occupational profiles are published.  \nType of company  \nEstimators, foremen, project managers, safety coordinators and superintendents must be directly employed by a general, specialty trade, electrical, mechanical or civil infrastructure contractor.  \nOwner’s construction managers are accountable to the procurement authority which can include owners, consultants (on behalf of the owners), general contractors, construction managers and design builders. 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