Thread by @Kastrel

#CILIPConf18 professional registration cafe. Not just for librarians! All info pros. Showing you have a reliable skill set, a shortcut to having to justify it to future employers.

But also get more awareness of where you sit in the profession, share best practice, learn from others areas and people, become a better reflective professional.

What you did. What went well, what didn't, what you would do differently next time. Reflection is a key part of improving.

Achieving parity with other professions - other professions have chartership. (Not sure I buy this. I have friends who are chartered engineers and accountants and not sure we deserve parity with that frankly).

How does it work? Write a 1000 word evaluative statement demonstrating how to meet criteria, with supporting evidence. All online.

Uses the PKSB - Professional Knowledge and Skills Base. Will create a heat map of your strengths and weaknesses. Only pick most relevant things to you - tries to cover whole profession.

No time limit on the process, but average is about 1yr-18mths.

Once chartered, members are encouraged to revalidate annually - they just need to submit 250words and 20hours of CPD showing how they have updated their skills.

Once chartered or made a fellow, you have that forever as long as you remain a CILIP member. If your membership lapses you are asked to revalidate.

Andrea - one of the assessors for CILIP. Read the guidance!! And do what it says. Beware sub criteria and do them too. Spread your 1000words evenly across the 3 criteria.

Assessors can't read between the lines! Spell things out. Acronyms, education level.

Personal performance - include your PKSB, maybe your annual reviews? Any feedback on work? Annotate docs to say what you plan to do.

Service performance - this is where people fall down. Is there an annual strategy document or 5-year plan? You can critique it confidentially. How would you improve performance, measure outcomes and impact.of changes.

STAR - Situation Task Activity Review. A and R are the most important. What changed after doing the thing? So what? And what now?

Very happy to see something saying "we tried this. It didn't work. This is what I would do next time."

Annotate evidence. Don't need certificates. How much is enough? No right answer. Make it easy for assessors! Don't use comments boxes - people mark in different ways.

Every candidate needs to have a mentor. Look outside your own sector. Need to make a personal approach. Look at mentor list.

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