Exceptional Promise

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I’m planning to apply for the Global Talent Visa under the Exceptional Promise category, and I would greatly appreciate your feedback on my profile. I’m also open to any suggestions on how I can enhance my application.

Background: (MC & OC below)

Education:

  • Bachelor’s Degree in Psychology.
  • Master’s Degree in Artificial Intelligence from the University of Essex, completed in 2023.

Professional Experience:

  1. Current Role:
  • Senior AI Associate at Factor Law, Belfast (1 year of experience).
    • Salary: £55,000 + 15% annual bonus (above market rate).
    • Developing AI tools for lawyers at scale
  1. Previous Role at TheTin:
  • Built and deployed a chatbot for HLB
  • Designed a prototype of an in-house tool for customized audio summaries of research papers and articles, targeting C-suite customers (can provide a recommendation letter or diagrams).
  1. Entrepreneurship:
  • Head of AI at a consultancy firm (6 months):
    • Mentored a team of 3 developers and 3 business stakeholders to build a product outside of regular work.

Achievements and Contributions:

Mandatory Criteria (MC):

  • Professional Recognition:
    • Role as Senior AI Associate with above-market salary.
    • Developed and scaled AI tools for legal professionals. (code cannot be shared but I can share letter of confirmation).
    • Built a chatbot for HLB and prototyped a tool for TheTin (cannot share the code, but can provide a recommendation letter or diagrams).

Optional Criteria 1 (OC1): Innovation and Contributions:

  1. Workshops and Mentorship:
  • Invited by the Director of MBA Students, Essex Business School, to deliver a workshop 20th Feb 2025 (can provide videos and confirmation letter).
  • Mentored and led development of a consultancy’s product outside of regular work.
  1. Tech and Projects:
  • Created a blockchain-based automatic attendance system, selected for the Essex Startups Accelerator program (currently shared it on github).
  • Developed 20+ GitHub repositories (limited interaction or contributions).
  1. Public Speaking:
  • Delivered a tech talk on RAG chatbots in London to 100+ attendees (photos and clips available, but no formal letter).
  1. Publications and Content Creation:
  • Published 5+ blogs on Hackernoon and DZone (one featured on the homepage; confirmation email available).
  • Achieved 100k+ LinkedIn impressions, recognized as a Top AI Voice.
  • Created a new YouTube channel with 100+ organic views and 3 subscribers.

Letters of Recommendation (LORs):

  1. Director of R&D or their superior at my current company.
  2. Head of Innovation or CEO at my previous company.
  3. Director of Essex Business School.
  4. Founder of the consultancy I am woeking as parttime

Request:

  1. Assessment: How does my profile align with the criteria for the Exceptional Promise category?
  2. Suggestions: Are there additional evidences or improvements you would recommend to strengthen my application?
  3. Advice: Any tips or insights from individuals who have successfully applied for the Global Talent Visa would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you for your time and guidance. I look forward to your feedback!

I would really appreciate help of you guys @alexnk @Francisca_Chiedu @Victrr @May @alex_james @Maya @somdipdey @Yusuf_Adebanjo @Chaitanya_Bapat @ask4jubad

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Hi @talibilat it will help to give feedback if you can structure your application plan to align with the TN guidelines and clearly outline what kind of evidences (across MC and 2 OCs) and LORs will you be showing towards your application.

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Thank you @pahuja, I will make the necessary changes

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@pahuja I have made the necessary changes. I’d appreciate if you could share your views

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hi @talibilat

i think you need to go through the guidance and restructure your evidences. for example , what evidences are you applying for innovation (OC1)?

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You need to talk about mandatory criteria (MC) and 2 optional criterias (OC). In your case, you mentioned OC1, which is Innovation. I dont see any innovation there. I can only see evidence which are more likely to be OC2 (contribution outside of work), which I still feel they are still room for improvement.

I sure you have seen it, but just in case, here it is, the Tech Nation Visa Guide - Tech Nation for the single source of truth. Read through from the top to the buttom clearly. Ensure you truely understand them, especially document & evidence sections.

I hope this helps @talibilat

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Understood ! Thank you so much @Maya

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Thank you, I will go through the guide again and make the necessary changes

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You need to group your evidence into the mandatory and optional criteria. Also give more details about the evidence. Fir the speaking event, what do you plan to submit? Ate there over 100 attendees. Are recent are your evidence?