Professional Licensing Applications Editing and Proofreading Services

An application for registration is returned after four months. The applicant has done everything required and more, over six years, and the experience record does not demonstrate it — because it describes projects rather than competences, gives no hours against any of them, and is signed by a supervisor who did not state what they were confirming.

We edit applications for professional registration and licensure — competence and experience records mapped to a standard, supervisor verification statements, professional development records, applications for recognition of overseas qualifications, reflective statements and case accounts required by regulators, and the responses that follow a request for further information. Our editors work on documents assessed against a published framework, line by line.

The experience record mapped to the standard is what a licensing body actually assesses, and its failure is a career described in the applicant's own structure. An assessor works down a list of competences and can only tick what is placed against them. We work through these so the record is organised by the standard's own competences in the standard's own order and wording, since an assessor with a form cannot credit evidence filed under a heading of the applicant's invention; so each competence carries a specific instance with dates and the applicant's own role, because a project description does not demonstrate a competence and an assessor is not permitted to infer; so hours or duration are recorded where the framework requires them, given that a competence met once and a competence exercised over two years are different claims; so the supervisor's verification states exactly what they are confirming and on what basis they know it, as a signature under an unspecified statement is routinely rejected; so any competence not yet met is declared with the plan and timescale rather than padded, since regulators grant conditional outcomes and refuse applications that appear to overclaim; so overseas qualifications are mapped to the framework element by element with what does not map stated plainly; so the reflective element answers the regulator's question rather than describing the work again; and so every date and figure agrees with the rest of the application. Records written this way are assessed once.

Everything you send is treated in confidence, including experience records, supervisor correspondence and material relating to previous refusals. We are editors rather than regulators, assessors or professional advisers, and we offer no view on competence, eligibility or any registration decision. What we can do is put your experience against the standard.