Experience assessment

Hi Martin... and welcome to the Community.

I've 'moved' your post to a more appropriate group.

You'll find a good deal of really helpful advive from personal experience in there. 

Thank you for your offer of sharing the experinece of your own journey, too. That would be great.

Hi Steve
Thanks for the welcome and the signpost.
I’ve logged on to the portal and read through the various guides on there regarding experience assessment and the actual assignments.
Kudos to CIPD for providing a helpful checklist of how to plan out the 8 weeks until submission.
This week is all about familiarity and next week looks like planning though I intend to get started with some planning this week as I know from previous studies that time disappears fast and life happens.

I'll pass that on to the team, Martin. Thank you.

Hi Martin - Does the checklist come once you have called and paid? I'm about to commence ...

Hello Shona

Yes - It’s in the experience assessment candidate guidance pack on p7. I found it mega helpful as it gives you week by week objectives to complete to keep you on track. There are also examples on p18 of what is expected in the impact report.

If you want more information or general support, I’m happy to bounce ideas.

I’ve completed all objectives up to week 3 and I’m now preparing to turn my scribbles in to answers for the knowledge and impact report.

Hi Martin
That would be great

Update to say I’m now underway with the Knowledge and impact report.
The guide to experience assessment states you should plan out your examples in week 2 ahead of drafting your answers in weeks 3 and 4.
I cannot understate the value in doing this as the report really does begin to write itself if you have taken time to prepare.
Some boxes are obviously easier to fill than others but a constant referral back to the profession map soon help to refresh what it is we do and bring fresh reminders of when we’ve met each criteria in the past.

Also time flies. The plan really helps you get organised.

I’ll post a further update soon. Right now I have one report to finish and another to start and the next two weeks will definitely fly by.

@Martin I struggled with this idea too but I found it useful to brainstorm examples of "what and impact" of some key strategies over the last 5 years, really early on which then I reffered back to when completing the assessment

Deadline day is Monday.
All reports are now finished barring a final proof and supporting evidence is uploaded.

I’ve said it throughout and I can’t stress enough that a simple read of the candidate guidance will really help you structure your time. The timetable and examples were certainly a big help and I’ve taken time to plan regular blocks to get answers written.

It’s quite hard to keep to the word count so be prepared for some serious editing to meet the requirements.

In terms of what’s left, it really is just a final read and then press submit. I have my PD booked for mid August and so I’ll post again to update on how that went. I’ve never been assessed by a professional discussion before so this will definitely be new for me.

Until next time…

Hi Martin, congrats on getting this far, your posts are helpful. I’m thinking about going this route and was wondering if you had to do a case study? You haven’t mentioned that. But threads I’ve read from 2019 do mention that. Or is the case study part of the two reports?

Thanks

George