Graduate Development Scheme

What is the Graduate Development Scheme?

If you are an employer in a supply chain, this route gives you the opportunity to help your staff to keep up-to-date in this rapidly changing sector, and to give them a strategic overview. Your employees might work in a relatively narrow function, but everyone can benefit from a broad overview of their profession. 

Transport planners need to address the shortage of skilled professionals working in this sector. The scheme enables candidates to develop on-the-job, to the immediate benefit of the individual and the employer.
 
Professionals in passenger transport can use this programme to keep up-to-date with technical advances whilst also addressing key areas such as safety.
 
The programme also offers your employees a direct route into chartered membership of the Institute.

What are the entry requirements?

• Entrants to the scheme must be graduates employed by a company or agency operating, or intending to offer an in-house professional development scheme
• Candidates will be formally nominated to the Institute by means of a completed membership application form and curriculum vitae

The Institute reserves the right not to accept candidates who, in the opinion of its Director of Professional Development, do not meet the requirements for entry to its Postgraduate Programme.

What is the process?

Candidates will undertake the CILT(UK)-approved company professional development scheme and comply with all the requirements of the scheme.

Candidates will maintain a portfolio of evidence during the scheme. An in-company mentor or assessor will sign off evidence of achievement for the key objectives contained in the company scheme. This will be made available for inspection by the Institute.

A verifier nominated by the Institute will visit the company at intervals to inspect the candidates' records.

At the conclusion of the formal in-company scheme, candidates will produce and submit to the Institute a reflective overview of their learning and development during the period. This will be of approximately 2,000-3,000 words and comply with criteria laid down by the Institute. To help them in this process candidates are advised to keep a learning log during the period of the scheme.

Following acceptance of the overview by the Institute, candidates will be invited to attend a professional interview at the London Office of the CILT(UK), lasting approximately 45 minutes. Candidates will be expected to start the interview by giving a 10-minute presentation on their participation in the scheme to a panel of members and answer questions from the panel.

What is the outcome?

Candidates who are successful at the professional interview will be eligible for chartered membership of the Institute, subject to having achieved the minimum period of qualifying experience.
 
Contact the Institute for further information on the Graduate Development Scheme