What is CIOB Professional Review

 The CIOB Professional Review is the last stage that you have to undergo if applying for the Chartered Membership, have to go through. This review assesses to make sure that you have the required level of skills, knowledge, and experience in the three main areas of competence: management, occupational, and professionalism. When you have passed this assessment, you will get the status of the MCIOB designation, which stands for a Chartered Member.

How to apply?

Experience and academic requirements:

It is a must for you to have fulfilled the academic eligibility requirements with a minimum of 3 years of relevant experience (you need five years if your qualification is not in the built environment and is a non-honors degree) before you start writing your application. You need to have a Level 6 (degree) level qualification or higher to satisfy the academic eligibility criteria.

Membership:

You already need to have a non-chartered member (Applicant) of the institute. If not an Applicant, you must register for an online account. After that, apply for membership.

Download the Professional Review form:

See the official website for more information regarding which form you need to download or hire a CIOB competency report writing expert to know about this.

Guidance notes:

You must read the guidance notes that you will get when you get the application form, which will let you know about the supporting documents you need to submit with your application. For instance, submit an up-to-date copy of your resume and a current record of your CPD.

Verification:

The applicant must be endorsed by your line manager, a construction professional, or a client who knows you well. You can know more about this in the notes that come with the application.

Which form you should take:

Three types of Professional Review forms are available. The one you need depends on your qualifications and work experience. When you have joined the CIOB at Applicant grade, you can pick the form from the options available on this page.

The Application Form is a PDF document, so you must make sure that you use an official program such as Adobe Reader to complete the application form to save the information you are putting in the document.

Don’t use a browser for the completion of your application, as it may lead to the information you put in being lost. You are recommended to download the document. After that, open it with a PDF reader; use Adobe Reader, which is free to download.

Professional Review for those who are working in the industry:

It is the most common Professional Review form that is available for all applicants except for those who have selected Level 7 NVQ Diplomas or those who are working in the academic field.

NVQ Professional Review:

This route is with a much shorter form for those ones who have NVQ 7 or SVQ 11. If having a different NVQ or other qualification, you have to fill up the industry route form. For the NVQ route, satisfy both of the following conditions: your NVQ is less than 3 years old and your NVQ evaluator was with CIOB Membership as Chartered at the time of your assessment if both of these conditions are satisfied, complete the Industry Professional Review.

Professional Review for Academics:

It is a tailored route suitable if you are a lecturer, teacher, or researcher but without direct experience working on-site or have not worked on-site for a while.