Assessment guidance

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Our process

If you’re completing a Chartered assessment or a CPEng reassessment, your application will go through all five stages of our process.

• Stage 1: Preparation – over 4–6 years you’ll accumulate enough experience to be ready to apply for Chartership, then you’ll put together your application online.
• Stage 2: Validation – once you submit your application, our team will review it over 1–2 weeks and let you know if you need to make any changes.
• Stage 3: Evaluation – once finalised, an assessment panel will be assigned to you and they’ll review your application over 8–10 weeks.
• Stage 4: Recommendation – the panel makes a recommendation to the Competency Assessment Board (CAB) on whether to approve your application.
• Stage 5: Decision – a final decision is made on the success of your application.

Before you start

• Make sure your work and CPD records are up to date.
• Get familiar with the assessment criteria.
• Talk to people who have been through the process before.

Top tip: write in the first person, eg ‘I’ or ‘me’.

Assessment guidance