No. State the dates accurately and assess whether the selected qualification route is satisfied at the relevant time. A desired start date does not create completed experience.
Keep the experience and contract calendars aligned
Identify remaining work, overlapping periods and the proposed professional duties. Ask the employer to address a genuine timing dependency rather than changing historic dates. If a different listed credential route is actually available, evaluate its real evidence; do not invent one to avoid the issue.
Travel arrangements should remain consistent with the authorization obtained and should not presume that a contract deadline guarantees admission. Hypothetical example: A Trois-Rivières medical-device packaging designer will complete the final month of a claimed experience period after the proposed contract start. The review should freeze the evidence at the relevant date, list what has actually been completed and determine whether another genuine route exists.
A signed future contract does not turn an incomplete period into completed experience. Ask the employer whether the start can move, rather than altering a reference date or merging future work into past work. The record that settles the point is usually a dated employment confirmation supported by payroll or contracts.
A recurring failure is preparing travel and onboarding around a commercial deadline before the qualification question is settled. Keep the experience calendar, requested work dates and admission plan separate until their factual dependencies are resolved.