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Work experience degree: is yours worth a qualification?

Years on the job teach things a course would have charged you for. In three minutes, see which role profile your experience already matches, which competency areas are covered, and which ones you would still have to evidence.

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Team leader / supervisor
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3 of 4 competency areas covered by your experience
Lead and develop a team
Plan and allocate the work
Track performance and report on it
The check

Describe your track record

Step 1 of 3
Your experience, not a testCompetency areas, one by oneGaps named plainlyNo promise of a diploma
How it works

Three questions, one honest map

1

Your field and your years

Where you have worked, and for how long. Nothing else is needed to start.

2

What you actually did

Tick the activities you really carried out. That list, not your job title, drives the match.

3

Your map

The closest role profiles, the competency areas already covered, and the gaps to evidence.

FAQ

Common questions

Important: this tool awards nothing and decides nothing. Whether your experience can be turned into a qualification depends on the rules of the awarding body in your country, and on a person reading your file.
Can work experience really replace a degree?

In many countries some of it can, through recognition of prior learning: an awarding body compares what you can demonstrably do against the competencies of a qualification, and exempts you from what you have already proved. The rules, the names and the paperwork differ everywhere, which is why we point you to a person rather than promise an outcome.

Why do you ask what I did rather than my job title?

Because titles travel badly. Two people called “office manager” can do entirely different work. Competencies are what gets assessed, so activities are what we match on.

Where do the role profiles come from?

They are a curated model we maintain, built from common occupational roles. We say so plainly rather than dressing them up as an official framework, and any real assessment will use your own country's standard.

What do I do with the gaps?

A gap is not a refusal. It means you have nothing to show yet for that area, which is something you can fix: take on the task at work, keep the evidence, or address it in training.

How much work experience do I need?

As a rule of thumb, at least a year of activity directly related to the qualification you are aiming at. The exact threshold is set by the awarding body, and it is the awarding body — not this tool — that decides whether your file is admissible.

What is a competency area?

A qualification is broken into competency areas: groups of skills that are assessed, and can be awarded, separately. That is the unit this tool uses to compare your experience against a qualification, area by area, instead of reasoning about the whole diploma at once.

Can work experience alone lead to a qualification?

It can. In practice many candidates are recognised for part of the qualification first, then close the remaining areas. The tool shows you from the start which areas your experience already covers and which it does not.

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