Introduction to the Assessor Guide

1. Start: How to become an intacs certified assessor
2. Collect Experiences: How to collect and report experiences to develop your assessor status

The certification process is defined and explained in the Procedure:  Assessor Certification or Procedure Assessor Certification 2010. Please refer only to the procedure for definitions and regulations.

Start: How to become an intacs certified assessor

Precondition:

An intacs assessor needs to have good knowledge of the processes to be assessed. Therefore intacs defines the requirement of either having a computer science related academic degree, or being able to show evidence of practical experiences in this field for 5 years. If you are not sure, that you fullfil these preconditions, don't hesitate to ask your certification body or intacs. You can find the contact information of the certificaton bodies following the link *Relation*Certification Body. You can send your question directly to intacs using the link *'Contacs intacs"

Follow an accredited training

A certification applicant must follow an accredited intacs training and pass the exam. A number of training organizations is accredited within the intacs scheme and provides public or inhouse trainings all over the world. Dates and locations are published by those training organizations, the certification bodies or you can find them in our event calendar.

Apply for certification

The application for certification is a formal process. Certification is handled by our certification bodies. If you are not clear, which certification body is the one to choose, don't hesitate to contact intacs. You can send your application to intacs if you like, and we will take care of the rest. Please use only official and latest  Forms for your application. Make sure that you use the checklist being part of the form and attach the required documents and evidences. We accept electronic applications.

Collect Experiences: How to collect and report experiences to develop your assessor status

Becoming an assessor is the first step. But real professionals want to develop their experiences and get official and certified approval of their growing qualification. The intacs certification scheme offers those professional assessors a service to exactly receive this independent certification. Together with leading industry partners we have defined criteria for experience approval, which are accepted within most industries and markets. Assessors should be aware of the different ways to approve their experience and the needed evidences.

On a yearly base, professional assessors are requested to send their experience evidences to their certificaiton body (typically at the end of each year). Those evidences will be registered. Large organizations have often established a corporate partnership with intacs. In this case the evidences are collected by the corporate representative.

Details of Experience Evidences are defined in the  Assessor: Concept of Experience Evidences or Assessor: Concept of Experience Evidence 2010 (PDF)document.

Assessment execution experience

Whenever you perform an assessment, make sure you keep records out of it. intacs has prepared an   Assessor Log and Report Assessments (PDF) to support completeness and correctness of these assessment logs. Don't forget the required signatures. Starting in 2009 all assessment hours are included as experiences. Each 50 hours of assessment time is defined as one EE1.

Maintain your knowledge through trainings and conferences

It is a must for a professional assessor to keep his knowledge up-to-date. Based on your personal profile, we strongly recommend that you define a yearly education plan and participate in established trainings and visit selected conferences listed in our event calendar. Make sure that you collect evidences of participating in these events, i.e. Certificates or official participant lists of conferences. If an event is not listed in the event calendar, check with intacs if it will be accepted! The duration of a training or conference must be at least one full day.

If your organization has established a corporate partnership with intacs, it can organize internal trainings to qualify their assessors. Experiences collected in this area are named "passive internal" or short as EE2.

Participating in an external training or in a conference will be shon as "passive external" or short as EE3

Contribute actively to the intacs community

Since intacs is a community based organization, which has no funding or permanent employees, the success of the scheme is depending very much on the active contribution of community members. There are several ways to show such a contribution. Some examples are given in the following list:

1. Participate in an intacs board
2. Participate in a working party
3. Give presentations about intacs related topics during a conference
4. Moderate an experience workshop
5. Give intacs related lessons or trainings
6. write a book or an article which is published
7. write articles for the intacs web site
8. ....

If you are in doubt about how to contribute to collect an "active external" or short EE4 evidence, don't hesitate your certification body or intacs.