CILIP Professional Registration Portfolio Building Susan Renshaw Candidate

CILIP Professional Registration & Portfolio Building Susan Renshaw – Candidate Support Officer Susan. renshaw@winchester. ac. uk An investment in your professional future

What is Professional Registration? • Professional Registration are CILIP's internationally recognised qualifications. • The perfect way to demonstrate your commitment to your personal development and the profession. ACLIP MCLIP Revalidation An investment in your professional future FCLIP

Recent Changes Future Skills Project • Removed barriers and unnecessary bureaucracy • Broadened the appeal and relevancy of CILIP qualifications • Clearer assessment criteria • Online submission An investment in your professional future

Recent Changes to Professional Registration • • • You decide what level you want to follow No timescales – submit whenever you are ready New clearer assessment criteria implemented PKSB self assessment introduced Online submission using new CILIP Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) An investment in your professional future

The Three Levels An investment in your professional future

What level to choose? • Certification – Beginning of career – Developing core skills • Chartership – Members with 2+ years experience* – Greater focus on reflection and evaluation • Fellowship – Highest level – ‘Significant contribution to the profession’ *Not definitive An investment in your professional future

Certification, Chartership and Fellowship Personal performance Certification Chartership Fellowship Identified areas for improvement in their personal performance and undertaken activities to develop skills and enhance knowledge Identified areas for improvement in their personal performance, undertaken activities to develop skills, applied these in practice, and reflected on the process and outcomes Identified areas for improvement in their personal performance, undertaken activities to develop skills, applied these in practice, and reflected on the process and outcomes Examined the organisational context of their service, evaluated service performance, shown the ability to implement or recommend improvement, and reflected on actual or desired outcomes Examined the organisational context of their work and evidenced substantial achievement in professional practice Enhanced their knowledge of the wider professional context and reflected on areas of current interest Established their commitment to, and enhanced their knowledge of, the information professions in order to have made a significant contribution to all or part of the profession(s) Organisational Considered the context organisational context of their service and examined their role within the organisation Wider professional context Enhanced their knowledge of information services in order to understand the wider professional context within which they work An investment in your professional future

Process Join CILIP Enrol & Register Find a mentor Use PKSB Complete CPD Result Submit using VLE PKSB Final assessment An investment in your professional future Assemble Portfolio

Mentor’s Role • Primary source of support • Offer guidance on how to complete the portfolio • Key source for criteria 3 – look outside of sector • Flexible relationship • No line managers! • Can be outside of your region An investment in your professional future

Finding a mentor • Spreadsheet on website An investment in your professional future

Virtual Learning Environment An investment in your professional future

Professional Knowledge and Skills Base (PKSB) • Completed & included twice • Vast range – not every section will be relevant to every user • Don’t ‘over-worry’ about your PKSB self assessment • Available in two formats An investment in your professional future

Professional Knowledge and Skills Base (PKSB) An investment in your professional future

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PKSB Gap Analysis An investment in your professional future

Example PKSB Submission An investment in your professional future

Professional Knowledge and Skills Base (PKSB) Have a go yourself An investment in your professional future

What is reflective writing? • The process of recording your thoughts about your experiences and what you’ve learned from them in order to inform what you do in the future • How do you know if you are reflecting? – You are not just describing – You demonstrate how you have put into practice what you learned – You are asking questions An investment in your professional future

Example “I went on a useful marketing training course” “I identified a need to increase my marketing skills. The training course on marketing gave me lots of tips about presentation and enhanced my knowledge. I then took ideas to the publicity group and developed three for use in new publicity materials. I intend to monitor the impact of these over the coming months” An investment in your professional future

Ask yourself • Why did I do that (activity, course, learning, conversation)? • What did I learn from it? • Did anything change as a result? • What would I do differently? • What will I do in the future? An investment in your professional future

Reflection exercise Think about one specific learning activity you have taken part in. Write a sentence describing this activity. 1. Look back on the activity reflect upon: - Your expectations before embarking on the learning activity? - How you approached the learning activity? - Which parts of the activity you found easy/ hard? 2. Think about what you learned as a result of participating in the activity: - How did your knowledge and understanding change? - What would you do differently if faced with a similar situation in future? - What knowledge and understanding might be applied in future? 3. Consider how the learning activity might be tested in future: - How might you go about putting into practice what you learned? - What challenges might you encounter? - How would you go about dealing with such challenges? An investment in your professional future

Reflection exercise An investment in your professional future

What evidence can be used for my CPD? An investment in your professional future

Collecting evidence • Think broadly • Reflection and evaluation is key – including an attendance certification says very little • Be selective – must support the statement • Examples - notes from sessions, meeting minutes, descriptions of conversations, reports An investment in your professional future

Portfolio Example 1 An investment in your professional future

Portfolio Example 2 An investment in your professional future

Key documents • • Table of contents Evaluative Statement (1, 000 words) Evidence to support Evaluative Statement CV Current job description Initial PKSB assessment Current PKSB assessment Mentor/Mentee completion form An investment in your professional future

Top tips from the PRAB • Read and follow the guidelines • Address all the criteria • Answer the question! • Evaluate & reflect rather than describe • Show you understand the whole professional context • Utilise each piece of your evidence • Present professionally • Learn from the process to benefit your future career An investment in your professional future

Supporting resources… An investment in your professional future

Revalidation Members are able to revalidate annually 20 hours CPD and 250 word reflective statement No assessment criteria Range of CPD activities encouraged – not just formal training/conferences • Not necessary to be in work – unemployed can also complete • Evidence not required • Free of charge! • • An investment in your professional future

Changes to Professional Registration REFLECT & EVALUATE An investment in your professional future

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