1. CILIP Professional Registration & Portfolio Building
Susan Renshaw – Candidate Support Officer

2. 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
FCLIP
Revalidation

3. Recent Changes Removed barriers and unnecessary bureaucracy
Future Skills Project
Removed barriers and unnecessary bureaucracy
Broadened the appeal and relevancy of CILIP qualifications
Clearer assessment criteria
Online submission

4. 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)

5. The Three Levels

6. 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

7. Certification, Chartership and Fellowship
Personal performance
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
Organisational context
Considered the organisational context of their service and examined their role within the organisation
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
Wider professional context
Enhanced their knowledge of information services in order to understand the wider professional context within which they work
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)

8. Process Complete CPD Join CILIP Enrol & Register Find a mentor
Use PKSB
Result
Submit using VLE
PKSB Final assessment
Assemble Portfolio

9. 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

10. Finding a mentor
Spreadsheet on website

11. Virtual Learning Environment

12. 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

13. Professional Knowledge and Skills Base (PKSB)
Using the PKSB will help you map and plan your current and future development. It will also help you map your skills and achievements to a wide variety of roles across the LIKM sector and take advantage of job opportunities that may not have been apparent to you

15. PKSB Gap Analysis

16. Example PKSB Submission

17. Professional Knowledge and Skills Base (PKSB)
Have a go yourself

18. 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

19. 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”

20. 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?

21. 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? 

22. Reflection exercise

23. What evidence can be used for my CPD?

24. 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

25. Portfolio Example 1

26. Portfolio Example 2

27. 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

28. 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

29. Supporting resources…

30. 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!

31. Changes to Professional Registration
REFLECT & EVALUATE