Chartered membership experience assessment prep

Hi Katrina, I am wondering if you progressed down this route as I would love to follow suit and speak to someone who has completed the assesstment. Thanks Jane

Mine was only for Associate, but it was incredibly straightforward. I looked for traps in & overthought all the guidance documents. In retrospect I should just have taken them at face value.

As I understand it if one doesn't make the grade at the first go there is a free second bash within 12 months with a plan given to help the candidate meet the standard.

Thank you Matthew, appreciate you taking the time to respond. I am also unsure whether to go for Associate or Chartered Member. I have 5-6 years Head of People in a SME and 23 years working experience outside of HR in a range of leadership and management positions and educated to Masters Level. All advice welcome.

Hi Jane, I just completed the EA route with my discussion on 23rd December and received confirmation of accreditation on 2nd Jan 26. I'd been in HR/LD for many years and been an associate all this time (over 21 years). I just didn't feel I had all the experience needed for the assessment until now. Having a really great project to work on which I was able to initiate from a training needs analysis, project plan through to implementation and then evaluation was what I needed to complete the CIPD EA process. This project has spanned over the last 18 months and I was lucky enough to be involved with our Executive Team and link it to our Corporate Plan and Learning strategy.

My advice is to ensure you have something that has a start, middle and and end to show impact using various data sources. It should also be something you are passionate about and that will get you set up in the right frame of mind to feel confident about the assessment. Other pieces of work around my general experience were also really useful to tap into but for me it was having the experience to initiate and complete a project that inspired me to go for it.

I had carried out evaluation on my project as part of my work so I used the data from that for the written assignment.

Good luck, let me know if there is anything in particular you wish to know.

Val

I think the key is to read the profession map and membership standards for the level for which you are aiming. I only had about 18 months as an HR specialist, but more than ten years with operational HR responsibilities as part of roles, so felt Associate was the right level.

One other thing to note is that if one goes for a grade but doesn't meet the requirements the CIPD may award the grade below.

Thank you Val. I appreciate your response, Jane

Thanks again Matthew, really grateful to you and Val for replying, Jane