I currently work as a frontend engineer with MTN (Africa’s largest telcom company transition into a tech company) and I’ve been there for 2 and half years now. I was poached from another software development start-up where I’ve worked for close to 1 year+.
My LORs
LOR from the CIO of MTN.
LOR from GM of Engineering in MTN.
LOR from the CEO of the start-up
Mandatory Criteria
Leadership and Innovation on the newly improved customer acquisition system creating a local communication between a PWA and a native app being the major contributor - The system having gained over 15million transactions since deployment and saving the company over $500,000 per quater *.
Career progression promoted to a senior frontend engineer within 12 months at the company and High remuneration compared to an average Frontend Engineer in Nigeria.
OC1 - Innovation as an employee for a company
Innovation in the communication of a PWA and a native app and the importance in MTN customer acquisition system
Innovation in loading a web assembly module into an active web liveliness photo capture system and the code base to back it up
A recommendation stating my impact in both innovation from a senior third-party representative of another global company we collaborated with to get the solutions
OC5 - Early stage of career
My Certificate showing my recent Bachelor degree holder just from 2023
My CV
Career progression from working as a student to present
Check for examples of evidence that can serve as Mandatory criteria.
Then for your optional criteria, you need to pick 2 out of the 4 optional criteria available (There is nothing like OC5). The description and what these criteria should answer have been stated in the guideline.
There are only OC1, OC2, OC3 and OC4.
How do I demonstrate that I have a proven track record or examples of innovation in the digital technology sector as a founder or senior executive of a product-led digital technology company or an employee working in a new digital field or concept?
How do I demonstrate that I have been recognised for my work outside of my immediate occupation that contributed to the advancement of the sector?
How do I demonstrate that I have made a significant technical, commercial or entrepreneurial contributions to the field as a founder, senior executive, board member or employee of a product-led digital technology company**?**
How do I demonstrate that I have exceptional ability in the field by making academic contributions through research?
I currently work as a frontend engineer with Company A and I’ve been there for 2 and half years now. I was poached from Company B where I’ve worked for close to 1 year+.
My LORs
LOR from the CIO of Company A.
LOR from GM of Engineering in Company A.
LOR from the CEO of the Company B.
Mandatory Criteria
You led the growth of a product-led digital technology product - Led to frontend team in development of customer acquisition system that has had over 20m registrations in 12 months of development. showing over 6 million+ lines of changes made in the repo and a refrence letter from a senior manager stating my impact in the team.
You command a high salary or other remuneration for your services- Showing my employment letter and comparison using glassdoor and other salary comparison tools to show how I earn more than 8 times average frontend developer in the country “although the values are quite small when compared to pounds do I don’t know whether that would invalidate it”
Career Progression- Showing how I was poached and how I’ve been promoted to a Senior within a year with Increment in salary and another increment in salary 12 months later in the same company.
OC1 - Innovation as an employee for a company
Implemented a communication system between a PWA app and a Native mobile app using websocket
Implemented a live capture system to capture live image and provide users instructions
A recommendation stating my impact in both innovation from a senior third-party representative of another global company we collaborated with to get the solutions.
OC3 - I have made a significant technical, commercial or entrepreneurial contributions to the field as an employee of product-led Organisation
Sole frontend of a customer verification and matching website resulting in company A keeping over 9million customers. with details of impact of the solution in the market.
A recommendation from a senior manager stating my impact and the solution’s impact on the organisation
Looking at your application, you’ve got some really strong points to work with. Your mandatory criteria look promising. The leadership evidence around the customer acquisition system is particularly strong - 20M registrations and 6M+ lines of code changes are impressive metrics, and having your senior manager back this up is great.
About the salary evidence - while it’s great that you’re earning 8x the local average, you’ll need to frame this against UK standards. The endorsing committee will be looking at how your compensation compares to UK tech salaries, so you might want to strengthen this part.
For your optional criteria, while the WebSocket communication system and live capture system show technical sophistication, it would be useful to get some more validation to prove your point. Have a look at the official documentation.
Your technical contributions evidence is solid - a customer verification platform with 9M+ users is great. The senior manager’s recommendation backing this up is valuable.
You’ve got strong support with those reference letters. Just make sure they’re specifically addressing the criteria you’re targeting.
A couple of suggestions to make your application even stronger:
You can actually submit up to 10 pieces of evidence, so consider adding more if you have other achievements
Make sure each piece of evidence tells its own clear story
For the technical projects, including some architecture details could help showcase your expertise better
Overall, you’ve got a strong application. The main thing I’d focus on is that salary evidence - just needs reframing in a UK context. Otherwise, you’re on the right track!
MC: Career progression and high salary can be combined. You will still need another evidence to demonstrate potential to lead in the industry and any national/international recognition. Salary/career progression proofs are considered insufficient anyway hence need more evidences in MC.
OC1: need to establish what was innovative about these works, your specific contributions and validation of your self-claims to these innovations, proof of innovation in market & its traction.
After taking them into consideration, Here’s my updated document list for review
Background
I currently work as a frontend engineer with Company A and I’ve been there for 2 years+.
My LORs
LOR from the CIO of Company A.
LOR from GM of Engineering in Company A.
LOR from the Highly reputateble manager of the Company A.
Mandatory Criteria
You led the growth of a product-led digital technology product - Led to frontend team in development of customer acquisition system that has had over 20m registrations in 12 months of development. showing over 6 million+ lines provable contributions made in the repo with my LORs referencing my impact and a possible support letter
You command a high salary or other remuneration for your services- Showing my employment letter and comparison using glassdoor and other salary comparison tools to show how I earn more than 8 times average frontend developer in the country
I know I need one more for this mandatory criteria and I'm working on that
OC1 - Innovation as an employee for a company
Lead frontend engineer for the same product in MC, the first and only contactless SIM registration system in Nigeria with great market traction and product success
Contributed as a frontend engineer on the first fully Digital retail store in Nigeria featuring in the news integrating with technical contributions like integrating the live face capture and background clean-up
A support letter stating my impact in both innovations.
OC3 - I have made a significant technical, commercial or entrepreneurial contributions to the field as an employee of product-led Organisation
Led the development of 3 different high-impact applications with detailed technical contributions of each product.
A support letter from a senior manager stating my impact on these products.
@Francisca_Chiedu
I need to ask is high renumeration + one other evidence of leading a product-led product + a support letter is sufficient for Endorsement through exceptional promise
I’m not sure I have any other document for the mandatory section
No it is not a strong evidence. Salary and reference letters are not enough to prove your recognition as a leader. You other evidence I. The guide like conference speaking, media recognition, awards etc
I have recent within conference speaking with good numbers the last few weeks, Does it qualify or it’d seem like it was done for the application purpose only? @Francisca_Chiedu
. Ideally, everything you’ve been doing should be continuous over the past 12 months.