Experience Assessment - Professional discussion hints & tips for you

I have just finished my experience assessment professional discussion as the final part.

Some Hints & tips for those who are yet to complete:

- refresh your memory/print the resources pages you are signposted to during the 3 core areas (knowledge and impact report etc). I was asked to explore further other areas that relate to the resources and didn't have this to hand.

- Re read your submissions to remind you of your examples if you completed early on. These will be referenced and referred back to to expand on. 

- Define out: Stakeholders, Customers and peers for you.

- The assessor used the VACS method for assessing.

- Look at your development and strength areas again and why these were chosen. Ask your stakeholders what they shared so that you can be prepared to answer the questions. 

- Have a look at legislative changes that have or will potentially impact you in your role and have a think about how this may/may not influence your decisions. 

We covered Knowledge and Impact report first, expanding on the examples and providing additional evidence then a break

Then the other 2 areas.

Hope it helps others prepare!

Parents Reply
  • Hi Jen, I looked into this and asked one of my colleagues who is in the CIPD assessment team. This refers to the VARCS framework (Valid, authentic, current, sufficient, reliable). In essence, these are the principles we apply to our assessment decisions/conversations but we don't refer to it specifically.
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