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Working notes, published as we learn.
Not a blog and not thought leadership. These are the notes we would otherwise keep internally: how credential recognition actually works, how to spot a programme that is quietly a trap, and how to measure something before it has happened.
The credential gap is a filing problem wearing a policy costume
Why a nine year career becomes unreadable at a border, what an evaluation actually does, and the four documents that resolve most of it.
How to tell an honest programme from a well designed trap
Seven questions to ask any organisation offering to help you work abroad, including this one, and the answers that should end the conversation.
Measuring a programme before it has anything to measure
We locked our metric definitions in month one. Here they are, with the arguments we had about each and the two we still have not settled.
Also in the drafts folder.
Notes we are working on. They will appear here when they are finished rather than when they are convenient, which is why this list moves slowly.
- What licensing bodies actually check, profession by profession, and how long each stage really takes.
- The interview as a second language performance, and why four practice rounds changes more than six months of study.
- Why mentoring programmes fail, and the two structural fixes that keep showing up in the ones that do not.
- What we got wrong in the founding cohort. This one gets written after the cohort, not before.
Notes are useful. A route map is better.
If any of this describes your situation, the readiness check will tell you which part of your file is weakest in about two minutes.