Trusted Skill Reviewers
Trusted Skills professional certification will only be valued if it perceived as trusted and legitimate. This trust and legitimacy is anchored in process and people. Our team of certified Trusted Skills reviewers are trusted subject matter experts mandated to evaluate whether a candidate can do what they say can do.
For this reason, it is important that our certified Trusted Skills reviewers are compensated for contributing their expertise to their community.
For each completed review during the pilot phase, expert reviewers will be compensated $300.
This Trusted Skills review process is anchored to four pillars:
1. Governance
2. Concise Criteria
3. Rigour
4. Evidence
Governance
The ISO 17024 standard defines explicit governance standards that must be met to ensure rigour and fairness. Consistent with this standard, the certifying body is accountable for defining and maintaining oversight of all Trusted Skills professional certifications, including approving certification criteria, the skill certification processes, and the appointment of certified Trusted Skills reviewers.
Concise Certification Criteria
Trusted Skills professional certification assessment is anchored to comprehensive certification criteria. This certification criteria defines the criteria and evidence by which you will determine if a candidate fulfils the specified certification requirements. The certification criteria ensure a consistent framework for assessment.
Rigorous Assessment
The Trusted Skills professional certification process complies with ISO 17024 standards by incorporating the assessment is planned and structured to ensure the defined requirements are objectively and systematically verified with evidence.
Evidence
Trusted Skills professional certification adopts a rigorous evidence-based management approach to certification. Evidence-based management is rooted in the simple principle that decisions must be based on high-quality evidence from multiple sources. Therefore, the job of the reviewer is to assess and judge the quality of the evidence provided by a candidate.
For Trusted Skills professional certification, “evidence’’ is the information, facts, or data submitted by a candidate to support their skill claim. This is operationalized at a skill level through four questions:
What evidence is required to prove that a candidate possesses a specific skill?
Does the submitted evidence explicitly offer concise proof of the specific skill being certified?
Is the evidence provided trustworthy?
Does the aggregation of all evidence provide explicit evidence of certification skills?
