CP and International Recognition

How is CP status recognised internationally?

One element relates to the International Professional Practice Partnership (IP3) accreditation of the ACS Certified Professional (CP) Program thereby giving ACS members global recognition as ICT professionals. Because of this, ACS members who attain CP status are also entitled to use the IP3 post-nominal IP3P.

Another element as to why CP is recognised internationally is that globally, ICT is aligning its definitions of the skills and attributes of work in ICT roles. Frameworks such as the Skills Framework for the information Age (SFIA) have made this achievable.

SFIA has been adopted by the ACS, as well as other professional societies, and provides the foundation for the CP Program here in Australia. This alignment allows a common reference grow and take root, allowing an international understanding of what a job in ICT actually involves- giving birth to the globally recognised ICT worker.

What is Certification Based on?

The framework upon which CP is based is the Skills Framework for the Information Age (SFIA). SFIA is a common reference framework for identifying the skills needed to work in ICT. Constructed in a two –dimensional matrix, one axis presents the whole set of SFIA skills with the other axis defining different levels of responsibility and accountability exercised by ICT practitioners.

 As a Certified Professional we know that your organisational role broadly involves:

• Ensuring
• Advising and
• Demonstrating an in-depth professional competency in at least one Skills Framework for the Information Age (SFIA) skill at level 5