Thank you for your interest in becoming a GIT with APEGBC!

What is a GIT?

A GIT is a member of APEGBC who has demonstrated academic qualifications, but is still working toward gaining the required 4 years of geoscience experience for P.Geo. registration.

What are the benefits?

How long does it take?

How much does it cost?

How do I apply?

Online Experience Reporting System

The GIT online reporting system allows GITs to report their engineering work experience in 6 to 12-month increments.  Each work period can be reviewed and credited online towards the 4-year requirement for a P.Geo. application.  This convenient system replaces the need for the logbook/work experience log and the optional midterm interview. 

GITs may sign up for the system by sending an email to our EIT/GIT Registration Coordinator.  You will then receive further instructions on how to record and receive feedback on your work experience. This feedback will come to you in experience credits (in months) and in comments from the reviewer of your work experience. Although this system is available to all GITs and experience can be recorded retroactively, it is of greatest value to those with less experience.

When you decide to begin creating work summaries, please first verify that your P.Geo. supervisor is available to use the online system. Then, start with your oldest experience, including any pre-graduation experience (co-op or summer) that you gained after completion of your second year of university studies under the supervision of a P.Geo. If you have a College Technology Diploma and transferred into third year university through a bridging program, please contact our EIT/GIT Registration Coordinator for more information.

If any of the following apply to you:

• you are an GIT or MAPS student who has been set up to use the Online Experience Reporting System;
• you are a Supervisor who has received notification that a work summary has been submitted for your approval;
• you are a Reviewer who has received notification that a work period has been assigned to you for review,

you can access the Online Experience Reporting System at this link:

http://eitgit.apeg.bc.ca/

For your information:

• User name is your APEGBC 6 digit System ID#.
• Password is your date of birth in yyyymmdd format ( no slashes ).

What are the benefits?

Becoming a GIT allows you to:

• take advantage of the employment centre on our website
• take advantage of APEGBC's Member Services and Affinity Programs
• use the new EIT/GIT Online Experience Reporting System
• have the application fee waived, or pay a reduced fee, when you apply for P.Geo.
• receive member rates for APEGBC Continuing Professional Development events
• receive APEGBC's monthly publication, Innovation Magazine

How long does the process take?

This depends on when we receive all the required documents for your application.  Once we receive all the documents, we will send your entire file for an academic review, which usually takes about two weeks. Once your academic qualifications are confirmed, you will be enrolled with APEGBC within one or two weeks.

If more academic assessment is required, it will take longer.  Once your documents have arrived here we will be better able to decide what will be required for you to demonstrate academic qualification.

How much does it cost?

Please check the FEE SCHEDULE for the most current fees..

The list below contains the items that you may need to pay for.

* Geoscientists-in-Training who have had the application fee waived will be required to pay an application fee when applying for registration as a Professional Geoscientist.

How do I apply?

A GIT application consists of:

• Completed application form.
• Application fee. This fee may be waived if you have graduated from an approved geoscience program within the past twelve months. Please check the FEE SCHEDULE for the most current fees.
• Certified copy of your citizenship document (passport or birth certificate) or permanent resident document. To have a your document certified make a photocopy of your document and have it signed and stamped by a P.Eng., P.Geo., or Notary Public as a "true copy of the original".  Alternately, you can bring the document to the APEGBC office and we can make a certified copy.
• Transcripts sent to us directly from your university of graduation
• An official or certified copy of your university course descriptions( Please note that students with courses listed on the current British Columbia University (UBC) Course Equivalent List do not need to provide course descriptions)
• A completed 'self-assessment checklist'
• A completed Demographic Information Form.

For a detailed description of the documents you need to submit click here.