Hello All, Hope you’re well. I’m Azeez. I’ve prepped my evidence for exceptional promise endorsement. Appreciate if provide any suggestions or feedback. @pahuja@Francisca_Chiedu@hsafra@ellagna
These are my evidences. CV Personal statement
LORs:
Letter from the CEO of a fintech company located in the UK.
Letter from the CEO of 2 Fintech Company; CEO is also Global Talent Recipient
Letter from the CEO of a company and former Product Manger at X(fka Twitter)
P.S I HAVE BEEN WORKING WITHIN THE FINTECH SPACE AND THE CEO’S HERE ARE FINTECH FOUNDERS BUT DIFFERENT NICHES
I have been able to gather 6 evidences though. 3 MC and 3OC and here they are
MC1: contribution to the growth of a company(reference letter, commits and Metrics)
MC2: Command High Salary in three of My Previous Job(contracts and payment screenshots)
MC3: Growth of a non-digital sector (JCI) started tech program and also facilitate (reference letter, picture, was given an award too)
OC2 (i): Contibution to the advancement of a sector outside my immediate occupation; Open source contributions, my stack overflow profile(Github commits), Hackernoon article
OC2 (ii): Talks or conference speaking that have had a significant viewership; PyconNG, KidsThatCode, Google Africa code week (Reference letters, speaker banners and photos, emails).
OC 3 (2 unique evidences from fintech organisations) I have made a significant contribution as an employee in a fintech (employment letter from the company, stock option letter, architectural diagram, github commits)
I think you hav the potential to get endorsed. Here are things to consider hat are not listed in your list.
How many opensource contributions do you have? If you have more than one then put one in the mandatory then the other in OC2.
What is the track record of your open source contribution? Are these just recent or commits you have made over time with recognition from your peers?
for OC2, i tjink you should separate your contribution to stack over flow and opensource
OC2 evidence 1 (open source) OC2: Evidence 2 (stack overflow). OC2 Evidence 3 (Talks or conference speaking that have had a significant viewership) Be careful not to put too many evidence in three pages best to priotise quality over quantity.
OC3 evidence 1 (employer reference letter with detaila nd metrics of your impact) OC3: Evidence 2 (architectural diagram +github commits) OC3 Evidence 3 (employment contract should not be same as MC)
Also ensure you CV is aligned with your linked. Importantly, if you are applying for promise your experience should be less than 5 years.
Thank you very much @Francisca_Chiedu. The open-source contribution is one and was done around 2022. Dunno if that counts as recent .
I was able to resolve a major issue on the project which fellow contributors recognized.
Other than that, My career started 2019… That means I should be applying as a talent ? based on the evidence mentioned above, do you think I have a shot applying as a talent ?
I can’t say if you can apply for talent or promise. The quality of your evidence will determine if you are considered an established and recognised leader in the field.
Assessor loves numbers. I suggest that your OC3 should focus on the KPIs, numbers, or anything that has business impact, rather than prove that you work there, a diagram to show how it looks like, or etc. Focus on what you and the project had deliverered. What are the success you have measured from it that you, your leaders, or colleagues care about the most?
@Francisca_Chiedu do you advise creating a PDF file for your screenshots and it as a link in your evidence instead of clogging it in 3 pages? cc: @pahuja@alexnk
You can try to external link it to a google drive / dropbox, but you cannot expect the assessor to click those links though. This technique is just for the additional evidence, but not important evidence. Therefore I suggest to include important evidence into the 3 pages by shrinking them and explain each screenshot under each box.
What is been asked of me there; is the name of the file I uploaded or the evidences I have in those files for review or I have to fill in links to the file.
Yes the title of the evidence.
e.g Manadatory Criteria-
Evidence 1 Speaking event at X conference
Evidence 2 Opensource Project
Evidence 3 News Clipping regarding my work
Evidence 4 high salary
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