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Money and promises
Yes. There is no application fee, no materials fee, no success fee and no deferred fee, and nobody acting on our behalf may charge you for anything. Third party costs such as credential evaluation, language tests and licensing fees are charged by those bodies rather than by us. We publish typical ranges so you are not surprised, and where donor funding allows we cover them for participants who cannot.
No. We do not sponsor visas, we cannot arrange them, and we do not give immigration advice, which is regulated work in most countries. Any immigration pathway must go through licensed attorneys, accredited representatives or authorised professionals. Anyone telling you a programme like this can secure a visa is either mistaken or selling something.
No programme can promise that, including this one. We prepare your file, introduce you to organisations that have told us what they hire for, and pair you with a mentor in your field. What happens after an introduction is between you and that organisation.
Never. No placement fee, no commission, no subscription. The moment an organisation earns money per hire, its advice to candidates changes in ways that are impossible to see from the outside, so we removed the possibility structurally rather than promising to resist it.
We cannot provide living costs, stipends or income support of any kind. Where donor funding allows we pay specific external fees such as an evaluation or a test booking, paid directly to the issuing body rather than as cash.
Eligibility and applying
People with real professional or technical experience, usually two years or more, whose qualification was earned outside the market they are trying to enter, who can work in English, and who can commit around four hours a week for twenty six weeks. If you are at the very start of your career with no work history yet, we would waste your year and we will tell you so.
No. Applicants participate from many countries and sessions are recorded so that time zones do not decide who benefits. Where you are living affects the route you take, and we map that in the first stage.
None at the application stage. We ask what you can currently produce, and the honest answer of very little is perfectly acceptable. Building the document set is part of the programme rather than a barrier to entering it.
The form takes about fifteen minutes. You will be acknowledged within three working days with a reference number. Two reviewers then score your application independently against a published rubric. Shortlisted applicants have a forty minute conversation, and every applicant receives a written decision with reasons, including those we cannot take.
Yes. A rejection usually reflects timing or the realism of a route rather than a judgement on your career, and both of those change. Your written reasons will tell you what specifically would need to be different.
The programme itself
Four hours minimum: one live session, one block of independent work and a short review. Participants who cannot protect four hours tend not to finish, which is why we ask you to be honest about this before applying rather than after.
Then your route is governed by an assessment body, usually with a supervised practice period and an exam, and it may run longer than the programme does. We map that route in stage one and tell you plainly if it exceeds twenty six weeks. Hearing that in week one is far better than discovering it in month nine.
People doing the job you want, in the market you are entering, who have committed to two hours a month for a cohort cycle. They are screened before contact and pairings are recorded rather than arranged privately, for reasons set out on the promises page.
You keep network access permanently and receive four check ins during your first year. The first twelve months in a new market breaks more careers than the border does, and it is where most programmes have already stopped paying attention.
Yes, at any time, without penalty. You will be recorded in our published figures as a withdrawal in the relevant category, because removing you from the denominator would quietly inflate our completion rate.
The organisation
No. World Education Services runs a well established programme under a similar name and we are entirely unaffiliated with it. We cite their work because credential recognition is central to what we do, and we would rather name the overlap plainly than let anyone assume a connection that does not exist.
None, and we will not pretend otherwise. No cohort has completed yet. Our impact ledger publishes every measure we intend to report and the exact rule for counting it, so that the figures arrive against definitions written before anyone had an incentive to bend them.
An application holds your contact details, professional history and review notes. Nothing else. We do not buy data about applicants, we set no advertising or analytics cookies, and a partner sees your file only after you agree to that specific introduction. You can request a copy or ask us to delete it at any time.
Write to us with the word CONCERN in the subject line. It is read by someone outside the relationship being reported, receipt is confirmed within three working days, and reporting will never affect your place in the programme. Anonymous reports are accepted.
By donors, foundations and corporate supporters. We take no money from participants and no fee from employers. We will not accept funding conditioned on guaranteed outcomes, on prioritising one nationality over another, or on placing a participant with a specific employer.
Answered? Then the next step is short.
Two minutes for the readiness check, fifteen for the application. Neither asks you for money and only one asks for your name.