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Professional Registration: My top 10 tips
Professional Registration with CILIP provides you with the opportunity to demonstrate your abilities, knowledge and experience. Here Marlène Rak shares her top tips on how to make your own Chartership, Fellow- ship or Certification journey as straightforward as possible.
I HAVE been asked a lot of questions on Chartership since getting started in 2022. Gaining Chartership status at the end of 2023 has brought in even more queries from colleagues, at work and beyond. How was it? How long did it take? Was it worth it? Can you mentor me? And so on.
I understand how daunting the process may feel; nevertheless, remember that – as with many other things in life – the hardest part is getting started. There is plenty information available out there and, being an information professional, you are already well-versed in the skills of planning, recording, reviewing, and reflecting (these are key to making your char- tership experience a successful one). To help you navigate your way through professional registration, I have compiled a Top Ten Tips to Professional Registration:
1. Make use of CILIP’s online resources CILIP’s online Professional Registration guide (
www.cilip.org.uk/ProfessionalRegistration) is the obvious place to start; this is where you will find information on getting enrolled, finding a mentor, developing your evidence, assembling your portfolio and submitting it. There is more to it, though. Once enrolled, you will be added to the Professional Registration Candidates’ Member Group and gain access to invaluable resources such as example submissions and recorded webinars.
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Marlène Rak is Subject Support Librarian at the University of the West of England.
2. The power of the PKSB
The Professional Knowledge and Skills Base (PKSB) is a fantastic tool that you will want to refer to throughout your chartership journey, if not your whole career. It is a living document that grows with you, highlighting the areas of skills and expertise most relevant to the library and information sector. CILIP recommends that you focus on 10-12 areas of your choice for Chartership. Depending on your experi- ence and the sector you are working in, some areas will be more relevant to you than others. But here is the beauty of the PKSB: this tool is yours and yours only. You can, for example, choose to work within areas you are already comfortable with; or you may wish to dip your
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