Hi,
I've been through this as an IT professional and it is a nightmare, I wrote a thesis too and not an enjoyable experience I can tell you. Collecting all the references spanning an 18 year career in IT was very interestesting especially as some companies had gone bust, merged or renamed etc...
I was going under the IT Manager sub category and like you had many roles, and to make matters worse had a mixture of permanent and freelance work...but I just covered every role and gave them examples of where I thought each role fitted in the summary sheet and did a self buttessment calculation. I omitted my initial technical background from the total years calculation as a sysprg etc and focussed on my managment career, which was more recent. but I included everything to be sure on the whole piece.
Sir SaI don't think there would be a standard amount that they would want to see. I would suspect that it...
To make matters worse I initially got rejected and they said I was 2 years short as they said that my earlier roles were not deemed appropriate as an IT manager...I appealed and won and my lesson learned was not to summarise on historical roles too mucg (like you would on your CV as who cares what you did 20 years ago?) but emebelish all to the same level of detail...you have to get your self out of job hunting-CV mode which is where I fell down....so include the lot...mine was about 30 pages in all!
As for sending docs, send certified copies of all as you don't get them back and if it gets lost you are really screwed. Good advice on getting two copies, I did this.
Best of luck....
Ray
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