CIPD Level 5 experience route

I did mine last year and was in a similar state of aprehension!  However while the guidelines you will have had when you signed up for EA might seem not to be of much help actually they are of more use than it first seems.

My professional discussion went over my written submission.  It asked for some more detail in some areas, and checked on my understanding of some of the things I had written.

I'd recommend you take another look at your written submission, think of some other examples in the areas you have talked about, and be prepared to explain how your thinking related to the profession map and standards.

One example from mine was that I used a redundancy process I had run.  The assessor probed a bit around how I had communicated with all employees in the business - a tricky one as it's difficult to explain how we achieved emplyee buy-in to the concept that the process was happening at all!

I really enjoyed my conversation.  It was a chance to share with a senior People Professional what I do in my working life and how I keep myself current and aleways learning.  It's not an inquisition by any stretch of the imagination.

Best of luck, and keep us posted!

This is immensely helpful. And I can breathe better knowing it isn't an inquisition. Thank you so much. I think key here is to have multiple backup examples that can showcase more of my experience. Thanks again Mathew. Really appreciate this. 

No probs at all, a pleasure to help!  This community was so helpful to me when going through the process.

I seem to recall that what I did was take the bits of work that I considered for the written submission but then rejected as perhaps they didn't fulfil all the criteria and had them on standby for additional examples of elements of each part of the submission if that makes sense.

Do also have a list of the CPD you have done, and crucially how if has guided your practice.  I had some where, for example, I had attended a webinar but found it wasn't useful for our specific business.  That's fine as it shows understanding of the whole business.

Understanding where you fit in in the whole structure is so useful, and at Assoc level our impact doesn't have to be earth shaking, just good pragmatic examples. 

I'm in education so it's a bit difficult to find quantifiable impact, but I talked about using feedback from the onboarding survey I brought in to rationalise and speed up onboarding so we had completed more work before the summer holiday than in the past which meant we could be more efficient during the summer minimum staffing period.

I also had soem examples of where my work led to savings, and where I had done SWOT analysis for a particular project to identify impact on all stakeholders internally and externally.

Hope that helps and it goes well!

No probs at all, a pleasure to help!  This community was so helpful to me when going through the process.

I seem to recall that what I did was take the bits of work that I considered for the written submission but then rejected as perhaps they didn't fulfil all the criteria and had them on standby for additional examples of elements of each part of the submission if that makes sense.

Do also have a list of the CPD you have done, and crucially how if has guided your practice.  I had some where, for example, I had attended a webinar but found it wasn't useful for our specific business.  That's fine as it shows understanding of the whole business.

Understanding where you fit in in the whole structure is so useful, and at Assoc level our impact doesn't have to be earth shaking, just good pragmatic examples. 

I'm in education so it's a bit difficult to find quantifiable impact, but I talked about using feedback from the onboarding survey I brought in to rationalise and speed up onboarding so we had completed more work before the summer holiday than in the past which meant we could be more efficient during the summer minimum staffing period.

I also had soem examples of where my work led to savings, and where I had done SWOT analysis for a particular project to identify impact on all stakeholders internally and externally.

Hope that helps and it goes well!