Global Talent Visa (Digital Technology – Exceptional Talent) (Business Applicant)

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Hello everyone! Hope y’all had a great Christmas and happy new year! :tada:

I’m currently preparing my application for the Global Talent Visa (Exceptional Talent) as a Presales Solutions Consultant/Sales Engineering.

I’d deeply appreciate it if anyone in the community could kindly take a few minutes to review my evidence list and provide any feedback. Below is a breakdown of the documents I plan to submit.

I have been working as a Presales Solutions Consultant/Sales Engineer in the SaaS industry for over 5 years since 2020.

A company Jun. 2024 - Aug. 2025
B company Aug. 2021 - Jun. 2024
C company Apr. 2020 - Aug. 2021

All the companies I’ve worked for are product led SaaS companies. B & C companies are in China and A company is in UK. I have a Master’s Degree in Environmental Engineering from Columbia University.

LOR1 - Managing Director from the C company, who has been in the industry for almost three decades. He was the director of the sales engineering department I worked at in my 1st company.
LOR2 - Co-founder of the B company I worked at. During my three years working at the company, I’ve worked on several large multinational projects with him together
LOR3 - Co-founder of the C company I worked at.

MC
Evidence 1 (October 2021 - August 2022)
reference letter from the Director of Solutions (he’s been in the industry for 13 years) from the 2nd company I worked at, writing about:

  1. I was trusted in high-stakes enterprise situations
  2. My judgment influenced commercial or strategic outcomes
  3. I operated beyond support — closer to advisor / authority
  4. He recognized me as “a future leader in digital technology”

Attached with

  • A screenshot of my letter of appointment to industry wide project the referee mentioned in the letter
  • A screenshot of an email from another industry leader referencing collaboration, who’s also the Director leading the project on the client’s side
  • The invitation letter for the project kickoff showing I was invited because of my expertise
  • A screenshot of an email from enterprise client praising my role

Evidence 2
Performance report of the same industry wide project

Evidence 3 (September 2021 - December 2023)
Market Expansion - A document with the following screen shots and explanations:

  1. HR recommendation letter at my exit from the 2nd company I worked at, mentioning how I built a million dollar business at the said country (APAC & US & part of Europe) from scratch
  2. Management report screenshot showing key business metrics comparatively how I started VS the growth after I left
  3. One screenshot of ecosystem growth comparing how I entered VS how I left

OC2.1
Evidence 4 (Jan 2023 - March 2025)
outside Volunteering/contribution. advise a non-profit on tech strategy.

  • A screenshot of the letter from the Managing Director of a non-profit organization whom I have worked with on several projects, she discussed 4 of my digital technology projects and their impact
  • Screenshots of invitation emails to advise on tech strategy

OC2.2
Evidence 5 (October 2023 - August 2024)

  • A screenshot of the Invitation Letter for the mentorship program
  • A certificate of appreciation from the mentorship program
  • A screenshot of the feedback from my mentees

OC3
Evidence 6
Reference letter from Sales Manager for EMEA from the most recent company I worked at in UK. I worked with him for over a year, he discussed my significant contribution at the company and the deals we collaborated on, these projects are different from the others that have been written in MC.
Evidence 7
A Document with

  • screenshots of revenue growth, transactional growth, merchant growth
  • certificates of recognition by my company
  • a payslip showing bonus
  • slide showing key partners closed

Any feedback is greatly appreciated. Thank you so much!
@Raphael @Francisca_Chiedu @pahuja @Adeelawan12 @Akash_Joshi @akshay

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Hi @Yangr

Your role is eligible to apply but your application outline needs more strength:

  1. MC is about demonstrating your work led to an industry recognizable impact. Your letter is just showcasing what you were doing as an employee, there’s no industry recognition in it. Evidence 2 & 3 don’t show that the industry and company’s before and after was purely attributed to your contribution. Without any public evidence of industry recognition and weak internal evidences, the outline is weak.
  2. OC2: ngo impact is good, ensure it shows how it advanced the sector. Mentorship needs to be part of a structured program and needs to show program structure and clearly show impact on the field.
  3. OC3: looks ok depends on the quality of your evidences where you can show direct quantified impact on core company metrics because of your contribution beyond self-claims.
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Hi @pahuja

Thanks for your feedback! I really appreciate it!

For MC’s weak internal evidences, I will add annotation such as emails where leadership approves my proposal, strategy slides authored by me, etc., to demonstrate how this metric was a direct result of the solution architecture I proposed, and how I led the stakeholder alignment that enabled this outcome.

For MS’s industry recognition, I have

  1. Client email explicitly praising my expertise and guidance
  2. Client requesting me by name
    with The invitation letter for the project kickoff showing I was invited because of my expertise.

Does that make a stronger application?

Also, the projects mentioned in evidence 1 and evidence 3 are different projects, but they are from the same company. Is it ok?
And I didn’t mention any projects during my time in A company. Is that ok?

Thank you so much for your time!

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No industry recognition is not demonstrated with client emails on your name. Please go through the official guidelines to see the list of industry recognition usually accepted, need to meet that benchmark/ emails are still internal not industry recognition even if it’s from
A client

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Understood! Thanks @pahuja!

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@Akash_Joshi I’d really appreciate your thoughts on this as well:)

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@Yangr Trust you are okay.

Yes! As a Presales Solutions Consultant / Sales Engineer you can be eligible , but only if:

You worked inside a product‑led SaaS(As you stated) or tech company
and your role demonstrably contributed to building, scaling, or commercially driving a digital product and not just delivering services or doing generic consultancy.

Your MC is more of letters, reports and screenshots and these won’t show recognition. Whilst you are recognised internally, it’s weak.

OC2: A certificate of appreciation, Screenshots of invitation emails Whilst these to some extent can show recognition, TN are also interested in the magnitude of what you actually did that contributed to the sector, that brought about you being recognised. Like, how many people did your project impact, changes your project brought…

OC3 screenshots of revenue growth, transactional growth, merchant growth, these are company growth metrics, you need to show how you made these happen.

To be honest, your application set is very weak, will it be okay if I suggest you give yourself some time, think and work around more compelling evidence and fine tune your narrative to increase your chances.

All the best.

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Thank you for your feedback. I have modified my evidence based on your suggestions and would appreciate it if you could review it to assess the strength of my application.

MC
Evidence 1: Workforce Management Transformation project for one of the largest pharmaceutical companies in China
This evidence shows how my solution has been reused in other pharma companies and how it became a vertical-specific template.

  1. Formal assignment naming me as solution lead and email from senior client stakeholder requesting my involvement, demonstrating external recognition of my domain expertise and the client’s reliance on my judgment in shaping their workforce transformation strategy.
  2. Internal document showing why existing approach (generic WFM approach) failed and what new model I proposed (pharma-specific WFM model)
  3. Commercial deal size / ARR influenced by this project (CRM screenshot)
  4. Follow-on contracts enabled by this engagement
  5. Invitation to advise by other pharma companies in other regions in China because of prior success
  6. CRM and pipeline screenshot showing multiple pharma deals using same solution

Evidence 2: Scheduling Innovation project for a Fortune 500 subsidiary corporation
This evidence shows how my scheduling logic influenced product features, and it has been rolled out to other subsidiaries and customers

  1. Deck showing a novel scheduling logic / model
  2. Reference letter from Head of Product specifying that the product roadmap, the release note, and the broader strategy were influenced by my solution
  3. Evidence of the other subsidiaries and companies in the same industry using it (screenshot of multiple tenants using the software)
  4. Client’s internal report showing reduction in scheduling conflicts / planning cycles at scale
  5. Internal dashboard showing my solution model now supports workforce planning for 120,000+ employees across the manufacturing industry

Evidence 3: Field Worker Management project for a multi-million-dollar public-sector project in Shanghai, China
This evidence shows my solution has been referenced for other public-sector projects, and it shaped how my company approaches government clients.

  1. Thank you letter confirming reuse of approach and recommending my solution approach to their peers within the industry, contributing to broader adoption beyond the initial organization.
  2. Number of public-sector deals influenced (pipeline screenshots)
  3. Invitation email to close-door industry workforce technology forum across the public sector
  4. Official agenda listing me as an invited speaker at the forum, where I presented a workforce management solution methodology to senior HR and operations leaders from the top 10 largest state-owned enterprises. The audience represented organizations collectively employing over 800,000+ employees, operating across five regions, covering sectors in rail, energy, utilities, manufacturing, logistics, and managing workforces in highly regulated, large-scale environments.
  5. Post-event recap published on the organizer’s official website featuring my session was among the most accessed pieces of content from the forum, generating 2,000+ page views and follow-up inquiries from multiple organizations seeking to understand how the same workforce model could be applied in their environments.

OC2
Evidence 4
Mentorship program outside my organization

  1. Invitation Letter for the mentorship program, confirming the program structure, selection process, and my impact on the field
  2. A certificate of appreciation from the mentorship program
  3. Mentees testimonials from some of the mentees (testimonials throughout the time October 2023 - August 2024), highlighting projects by mentees that reached more people: initiatives they implemented in their teams and organizations
  4. Letters from organizations noting improvements due to mentee-led initiatives and launched projects

OC3
Evidence 5
A screenshot of a letter from Sales Manager for EMEA from the most recent company I worked at in UK. I worked with him for over a year, he discussed my significant contribution at the company and the deals we collaborated on, these projects are different from the others that have been written in MC.
Evidence 6

  1. Annotated screenshot / table from internal dashboard showing deals/transactions/revenue linked to me
  2. Email acknowledgments (PDF) from management and clients confirming my contribution.
  3. Certificates of recognition by my company
  4. A payslip showing bonus
  5. A slide showing key partners closed

Any feedback is greatly appreciated. Thank you so much!
@Raphael @Francisca_Chiedu @pahuja @Akash_Joshi @Adeelawan12 @akshay