Skill Evidence

Trusted Skills professional certifications recognize the skills and knowledge you have developed through learning, work and experience.

This starts (and finishes) with you proving to your certified Trusted Skills reviewer that you can do what you say you can do. For Trusted Skills professional certification, “evidence’’ is the information, facts, or data submitted by a candidate to support your skill claim.

This evidence can be clustered in the following five areas:

  1. Professional evidence

  2. Skill development evidence

  3. Community evidence

  4. Personal evidence

  5. Other evidence

Professional Evidence

This incorporates all evidence developed in a professional capacity. This could be as an employee or in your own business. Remember that much of the work you did professionally may be proprietary and confidential, and there may be limits for what you can share. For this reason, always be cautious when it comes to the evidence you choose.

Examples of Professional Evidence

  • Descriptions about your current and past professional roles explicitly linked to skills

  • Example of a project completed for an employer that demonstrates the skill

  • Samples of documentation a candidate developed or contributed to; e.g., reports, presentations, blueprints, websites, schematics, lesson plans, order forms, or management systems

  • Samples of creative outcomes you led or contributed to

  • Samples of video or audio content you developed or contributed to

  • Sample of marketing programs you led or contributed to

  • Sample research you led or contributed to

  • Samples of a new product or service you designed

  • Customer satisfaction acknowledgement

  • Details of the ways your performance has been measured, like your sales volumes, client loads, safety records, and overtime you have put in

  • Performance evaluations and annual reports

  • Military records and awards

  • Evidence of training taught

  • Examples of a work completed if you are self-employed

  • Business plan

  • Marketing materials

  • Project completed for a client

Skill Development Evidence

This is evidence associated with skill development. This includes formal education and other forms of learning, like workshops or conferences.

Examples of Skill Development Evidence

  • Professional designation, certifications and corresponding evidence linked to a skill

  • Educational transcripts explicitly linked to skills

  • School project that explicitly demonstrates skill

  • Scholarly research project that explicitly demonstrates skill

  • Professional development workshops and activities with an outcome that explicitly demonstrates skill (including detailed description)

  • Details of any vocational competitions you have participated in

  • Conferences, workshops, committees, and projects that you have been involved with linked explicitly to a skill

  • Courses or training that you have completed and linked explicitly to a skill

Community Evidence

This incorporates all evidence developed in a voluntary capacity. Many examples from professional evidence may also be relevant for community evidence. Similarly, some of this voluntary work may be proprietary and confidential.

Examples of Community Evidence

  • Descriptions about a candidate’s current and past voluntary role explicitly linked to skills

  • Example of a project completed in a volunteer capacity that demonstrates the skill

  • Sample of documentation a candidate developed or contributed to; e.g., reports, presentations, blueprints, websites, schematics, lesson plans, order forms, or management systems

  • Samples of creative outcomes a candidate led or contributed to

  • Samples of video or audio content a candidate developed or contributed to

  • Sample of marketing programs a candidate led or contributed to

  • Sample research a candidate led or contributed to

  • Samples of a new product or service a candidate designed

Personal Evidence

This incorporates all evidence associated with personal interests.

Examples of Personal Evidence

  • Example of work completed for personal interest that demonstrates the skill

  • Photography explicitly linked to skills

  • Writing samples explicitly linked to skills

  • Published content explicitly linked to skills

  • Blogs/vlogs explicitly linked to skills

  • Podcasts explicitly linked to skills

  • Social media posts explicitly linked to skills

Other Evidence

  • Security clearances explicitly linked to a skill

  • An award that demonstrates evidence of the skill

  • Past correspondence or assessments that provide evidence of a skill