As we approch mid-October and a year in my first professional position I am pleased to say that I am not far away from being chartered if all goes well. I have spent the last couple of weeks priniting off eveidence and gathering it together in a presentable way. I will be speaking to my mentor in the next couple of days and if she is happy with my work then will look to submit in the next month or so.

I have found the experience of chartering not as daunting as it may have seemed st first. I think I am lucky in that my first job is a very varied one with service performance, marketing, IT, customer service, training delivery and much more involved alongside my day to day job of being the learning co-ordinator. It has meant that alongside attending training days my general work tasks have fed in well to the chartership model (although only if I pass will I say this for sure). It has kept my mind focussed on being reflective in my approach and also mindful of the importance of gathering performance evidence and this will be useful going forward.

In a work sense I now feel very much at home in my surroundings, I have had some key achievements in my first year; maintaining existing learning providers who looked ready to pull out, finding new partners, becoming a learndirect centre, becoming an ILA provider and starting to delive my own classes being the stand outs. This has now seen me start to come up with new projects and these are likely to focus on creating more in-house classes and programmes for employability and younger people. With so much focus on learning I think chartership has meant I kept a close relationship with the more traditional library work giving me a good amount of all round skills.

As my workload increased over the year my blog posts became less frequent but I hope they still reflect what I have been doing and how I have felt about it. I plan to keep blogging in a new blog shortly!