CDR Planning Toolkit

A do-it-yourself toolkit for the Engineers Australia Competency Demonstration Report. It follows EA’s current headings, maps all 16 competency elements to your own paragraphs and checks your word counts, so your writing is complete before you submit. It contains no sample career episodes.

What's inside

• CDR planning guide, 29 pages: Pathways, a document checklist, choosing three distinct projects, guiding questions for every heading, the paragraph-numbering method, CPD and CV advice, a pre-submission checklist and the integrity rules.
• Three career episode planners: Word files with EA’s current headings, numbered paragraph styles and guiding questions you delete as you write.
• Competency mapping and tracker: Excel: switch between Professional Engineer, Engineering Technologist and Engineering Associate, map paragraphs to elements, see gaps in red, and track word counts, evidence, CPD and your timeline.
• CV and CPD templates: Clean, chronological layouts in Word.
• Reference letter checklist: The items EA asks for, plus a layout your employer completes on company letterhead.
• Official EA links: Where to find the current application guide, writing guide and summary statement templates.

Details

• Covers: EA migration skills assessment, CDR pathway
• Based on: EA application guide (Jan 2026) and writing guide (Jun 2025)
• Files: PDF guide, 6 Word templates, Excel tracker
• Version: Version 1.0 (September 2026), free 1.x updates
• Affiliation: Not affiliated with Engineers Australia

Who it's for

• Engineers applying for an EA skills assessment through the CDR
• Civil, structural, geotechnical, transport and other engineers
• Applicants who want to write their own CDR and avoid plagiarism bans

Please note: Not affiliated with or endorsed by Engineers Australia. Guidance only: check EA’s current documents before you submit, and write your application yourself.

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