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What is Professional Assessment?

Professional Assessment is a route to Chartered Membership of CIPD, specifically designed for HR and Learning and Development practitioners who have 5 years or more management experience.  Candidates meet the CIPD Professional Standards by building a portfolio that demonstrates their competence and knowledge.  We use a range of assessment methods; for example: discussion, questioning, work-based evidence and written narratives.  E-portfolio is an invaluable on-line assessment tool available for all our candidates.

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Chartered Membership is gained by successful completion of four fields :

• Leadership & Management
• People Management and Development
• Four generalist / specialist electives - there are 16 to choose from
• Applied Field, comprising a Management Research Report and maintenance of Continuing Professional Development (CPD)

For people who are part-qualified we can offer part programme.

Click here to view the CIPD PAC brochure

Different Approaches

We offer two approaches to professional assessment Standard and Fast-track Executive.

With the Standard Programme you will  upload evidence that demonstrates your operational effectiveness in a specific area of HR.  E-portfolio facilitates the assessment process: rather than writing a lengthy narrative you can annotate your evidence to show how you contributed to a particular piece of work.  This also enables you to cover a significant amount of the knowledge element of the programme.  This approach is most suitable for people who are able to complete the programme over an eighteen month time-scale.  It also lends itself to practioners who have a reflective approach and would enjoy writing about their work.

With Executive Assessment there is greater use of professional discussion and your adviser or assessor will map your evidence for the People Management and Development and Leadership and Management fields.  This reduces the amount of work you need to do as a candidate.  This route enables practitioners to 'fast-track' their professional assessment and candidates can complete the programme in as little as 3-4 months.

How will it work?

A member of the Busec team will promptly respond to your initial enquiry and will explain the PAC process to you and answer any questions.  The next stage is to meet for a diagnostic interview; this does not incur any cost or commitment but is just part of the fact finding process and will enable our advisers to map your experience to the professional standards and give you personal advice about your best options.

When you are ready to go ahead you will complete a CIPD application form and Busec will register you onto the programme and arrange a start up meeting.  You will be allocated a personal adviser who will work through the programme with you and help you to prepare and present the evidence to support your claim of competence.

Assessment can be on-going or carried out at the end – the programme is very flexible and tailored to the needs of the candidate.

All of Busecs programmes are quality assured through internal and external verification.

Summary

For an inclusive price Busec will give you:

• A no obligation diagnostic meeting where the CIPD Professional Standards will be fully explained and compared with your experience, ensuring that professional assessment is the most appropriate route before any commitment is made.
• Comprehensive guidance notes
• A personal adviser who will give you regular constructive feedback
• One-to-one meetings with the adviser.
• Flexibility with the number of hours and meetings allocated to you
• One-day workshop providing guidance on completion of Applied Field.
• Assessment and internal verification of portfolio.
• Support for upgrading to Chartered Fellow, if applicable.

For the Executive Assessment programme we provide:

• Professional discussion against CIPD standards replaces the need for you to write narratives for the electives
• Mapping and gap analysis for People Management & Development and Leadership & Management

Contact us today for more information or to discuss your needs with a Busec representative.