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Continuing Professional Development: iProfessionals

What is this?

Continuing Professional Development (CPD) is the way that individuals show their development as professionals over the course of their career. It is a term used across all sectors of business. A CPD scheme helps people identify their current skills and tracks their progression in terms of increased skills. Many professional bodies require their professionals to keep an annual record of their training to show that they have updated their skills in line with expectations in the industry.

Why is it important?

By using a CPD scheme, you can show yourself, your employer, further and higher education institutions, recruitment companies and prospective employers the skills you have acquired and at which level. This can affect the salary you expect to receive and/or the number of hours or modules you might need to complete a higher education or vocational training course.

What do I have to do?

It is hard in the interactive sector to demonstrate that you have improved your skills while working. It is not a sector that has strongly defined ways of working, a training culture or defined progression paths. Much of the time you have to learn on-the-job. CPD is all about capturing the information about what you do to improve yourself—and we provide a template for you to do this on an annual basis.

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