The IPP Passport
A CV is a claim. Your IPP Passport is a record. It brings together your qualifications, your assessed competence, and your CPD into one verified profile that an employer can trust at a glance — and it belongs to you, not whoever you happen to work for. As CVs become something anyone can generate in seconds, verified proof is what sets a serious professional apart.
What it holds
Everything on your Passport is either earned through assessment or backed by evidence — giving you a record that stands behind every line of your CV, with proof to match.
Every IPP qualification you pass is recorded against your name with a unique reference, so any employer can confirm it is real.
Your levels across the eight areas of the IPP Competency Framework, shown clearly as self-assessed, reviewer-validated, or assessed.
A continuous, dated record of your professional development logged against real activity, not a number you type in once a year.
Your Passport belongs to you. Change jobs and the whole record travels with you, current and intact, from day one in the new role.
Why it can be trusted
Anyone can say they are good at their job. The point of the Passport is that it shows the difference between what you have claimed and what has been checked. Every competency entry sits at one of four levels of assurance, and that level is always visible.
Your own honest starting point. Labelled as self-assessed so no one mistakes it for more than that.
A nominated reviewer at your organisation confirms or adjusts a level. Validated levels are treated as credentialled, separate from self-assessment.
An independent IPP Fellow reviews your whole profile and records an endorsement. A peer with no tie to your employer, vouching that your record is a fair picture.
Confirmed through a formal IPP qualification or assessment. The highest level of proof, and the foundation your post-nominals rest on.
A membership benefit
Once a year, you can submit your full competency profile to IPP and have an independent Fellow review it. They look across all eight areas and record a written endorsement on your Passport, along with a clear note of which areas they confirmed and which they would query.
It is independent on purpose. The Fellow has no connection to your employer, so the endorsement speaks to your standing in the profession, not your standing in one company. A Fellow-endorsed Passport carries far more weight with employers than a self-assessed one, and it gives you an honest signal about where to develop next.
Available now to Members (MIPP) and Fellows (FIPP), one review per year. We are expanding the Fellow review to all members as our reviewer community grows, so Associates (AIPP) will be able to request one soon.
Confirmed and endorsed areas are visible to employers if you choose. Any flagged areas stay private to you, as a development signal.
For employers
When a candidate shares their IPP Passport, you are not reading a document they wrote about themselves. You are seeing a verified record: real qualifications you can check by reference, competence levels that show how they were assured, and a live CPD history. It is the difference between a claim and proof.
The IPP Passport currently covers project management. Some entries begin as self-assessed and are clearly marked as such until they are reviewer-validated, Fellow-reviewed, or confirmed by assessment. "Verified" on a Passport always tells you exactly how something was checked.
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