I’ve been wondering for the past couple of months about making my application but was caught in the endless loop with the 1st step. Any help/assistance here would be highly appreciated.
A glimpse of myself: I’m an 18+ years experienced Telco business professional. As a start-up founder, I’ve been working on an Ai based SaaS platform solving day-to-day transportation problems for the past 2 years. The MVP is currently under the dev stage and shall take another 3-4 months for the beta release.
I have also built some client traction in terms of the sales pipeline and client interest. Pretty close with one of them on signing an LoI (Letter of Interest).
I’m a bit confused now as to how should I approach the application:
From my professional standpoint
From the startup standpoint
Mix of professional and startup standpoint.
Current Stage: I have already filled in my application at the gov.UK and pending for IHS payment. Please suggest
First of all, looks like you are getting good traction with your start-up - so Congratulations on that!
Before I comment on your confusion, I am myself confused a bit. You say:
Current Stage: I have already filled in my application at the gov.UK and pending for IHS payment. Please suggest
IHS payment is only due in Stage 2 of the Global Talent Visa, for those who have successfully received an endorsement. Is that the case with you?
Furthermore, you are asking to suggest and I am not sure to suggest on what? Can you specify the question on which you would like some comments/thoughts please?
18+ years experience means you will automatically be assessed as exceptional talent
You then need to think about your profile from this perspective whether your business profile, Technical profile or both.
I am sorry but I do not think depending on an MVP in Development stage ONLY will qualify you as Exceptional Talent.
I am not too sure about showing client interests at Exceptional Talent level too. It may be sufficient for exceptional promise but for Talent ? Doubtful.
You then need to check some of the other work you have done in the last 5 years to see if adding these would help you qualify based on the criteria.
For your question, I would say use evidence for both. Showing yourself as a tech business executive (howbeit in consulting) who then moved on to build a product led digital technology company seems to be a pretty good fit to me. (Is this your case?).
I would only worry about the burden of proof of traction.
This is my opinion and not legal advice. I suggest you seek other opinion too.