APPLICATION GUIDANCE

INTRODUCTION

This guidance sets out the process and requirements that you have to follow when
submitting your application to CIWEM.

For you to achieve Fellow (FCIWEM, C.WEM) or Chartered Member (MCIWEM,

C.WEM) you will complete the CIWEM Professional Application Process.

The following flowchart provides an overview of the Professional Application Process:

Applicants must submit the following:

1. Online application form

2. Career Overview Report
3. Mandatory Competence Attainment Report
4. Evidence of participation in a Professional Development Scheme
(if appropriate)
5. Training and CPD record
6. Copies of qualifications
7. Copies of Professional membership/s or qualification/s

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1. APPLICATION FORM

You should complete the online application form in full and ensure that both you
and your sponsors have signed the appropriate sections.

2. CAREER OVERVIEW REPORT (NO MORE THAN 1000 WORDS)

CIWEM requires the Career Overview Report you submit to cover the following 6 key
areas: duration of employment, job title, employer, roles and responsibilities, your
involvement in making key decisions and recommendations, key learning topics*.

Your report should give an overview of the work for which you have had
responsibility, your job roles and progression through your career, including any
career breaks. You need to identify any experiential learning which may be relevant
to each registration being sought (i.e. C.WEM/CEng/IEng/EngTech/CSci/CEnv).

* A key learning topic is one gained in the workplace as part of your working career
and should be highlighted in the text of your report.

3 MANDATORY COMPETENCE ATTAINMENT REPORT (NO MORE THAN 4000 WORDS)

You need to provide a response to each of the 14 Mandatory Competences in the

pro-forma report available on the CIWEM website. The maximum number of words
for the report is 4000; the distribution between individual competences will be at
your discretion.

Appendices, references and footnotes will not be accepted.

You need to use examples from your practical experience to demonstrate the
appropriate level of achievement for each competence. Essential images and
diagrams should be included to support responses in the pro-forma.

Your responses need to be written in the first person and identify your roles and
responsibilities, what you have done and what you have learned. If you were part of
a team you need to identify what you personally did, describing your contribution to
the overall aim of the specific project or piece of work.

You normally need to provide two examples that demonstrate the appropriate level
of attainment for each Mandatory Competence. The Competence report is your
opportunity to demonstrate that you are working at a level appropriate to the
registration/s for which you are applying.

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4 FOR THOSE WHO HAVE PARTICIPATED IN A PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT SCHEME

If you have participated in a CIWEM approved Professional Development scheme,

you should provide:

Name of Company scheme(s) undertaken with

Supporting comment from your mentor
A copy of any experience review completed

5 TRAINING AND CPD RECORD

You need to provide a list of all training and Continuing Professional Development
(CPD) undertaken in the past three years. This should include a brief descriptor,
when completed, duration, and organising body.

6 QUALIFICATIONS

You need to provide copies of your qualifications, both certificates and transcripts,
signed as authentic copy of the original, by at least one of your sponsors.

7 PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIP

If you already hold membership of any professional body, you should provide copies
of certificates and/or supporting documentation, signed as authentic by at least
one of your sponsors.

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