Steps in the CIPD Experience Assessment Process
Step 1: Familiarise Yourself with the Guidance
It starts with the learning of all the possible and expected demands of that specific assessment. This crucial first step sets the foundation for a successful assessment experience:
The common areas to understand are the membership standards, which can be explained by identifying and analysing the CIPD’s materials and the list of the requirements connected with the membership level chosen. You need to read and be conversant with the core behaviours, knowledge areas, and the expected impact against the membership grade that is appealing to you.
The experience assessment portal is equipped with multiple instrumentations such as videos, samples and tutorials from which clients can gain detailed information. Using this kind of materials, and spending time to go over them properly will make a lot of difference in the preparation process and in enhancing confidence.
The CIPD EA support team is also present to help any candidates who may need some modifications OR is there to offer help to the candidates. Do not hesitate to contact me if you have any questions or concerns regarding any of the assessment activities.
Step 2: Plan Your Time
Effective time use is another very important factor to tap into once practising the Experience Assessment. The eight-week timeframe requires careful planning and dedication:
The recommended time allocation includes:
- About 5 total days for writing exams
- Extra time to collect supporting data
- Perios for gathering and integrating the views of the people that may be affected by the result
- Intervals within which revisions of your submissions have to be done and implemented.
A preplanned hybrid schedule is useful as it allows for covering all programs and tasks helping to manage professional commitments as well.
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Step 3: Schedule for Your Professional Discussion
The professional discussion is a key component of the assessment process:
Once they admit you to the portal, CIPD will then contact you within 10 working days to organise your professional discussion. Such early scheduling enables you to organise how you will be preparing for this crucial discussion in advance.
The discussion is done through a Video link (Skype or Zoom) to ensure that it can be done anywhere that the candidate prefers. This format provides the comfort of professionalism that enables you to disclose all you know to the employer.
Step 4: Start and Submit Your Assessments
The written assessments form the core of your application, requiring careful thought and detailed examples:
Knowledge and Impact Report: This document is an opportunity to demonstrate that you know and understand the principles that are inherent to the field of HR/L&D and how they can be implemented in practice. The emphasis is made on cases where your expertise helped generate tangible results for your organisation. Don’t forget such characteristics as metrics, outcomes, and what can be learnt from such experiences.
Behaviour Report: Prove that you meet CIPD behaviour standards in specific ways. This involves explaining how professional behaviours were demonstrated in contentious circumstances and how these behaviours impacted the right results.
Professional Development Report: Consider and discuss the learning process and key emerging trends as well as the specific areas of development that may be interesting to the learner in the future. Also, ensure feedback from stakeholders to boost the argument with solid proof of the program’s effectiveness for personal development.
Step 5: Professional Discussion
The professional discussion represents a crucial opportunity to elaborate on your written submissions:
This 2-3 hour structured conversation with an assessor allows you to:
- Provide more samples from your writings
- Elaborate your encounters where possible to create more subscribers.
- Highlight your professionalism and how you arrived at your decision-making.
- Explain current trends and issues in HR/L&D
- Explain your further evolution strategies
This aspect of the discussion should be done with some preparation of the inputs that you make and other examples that can support the discussion.
Step 6: Receive Results and Feedback
The final stage of the process provides valuable insights into your professional standing. Approximately six weeks after your professional discussion, you’ll receive comprehensive feedback including:
- The outcome of the assessment
- A detailed analysis of what has been identified as your competencies
- Areas for further development
- Recommendations with a context to the ongoing professional development
- Guidance on what you should do next in your profession
