A self-declared skill
Strong AI skills, listed under a heading called skills.
Unverifiable
Costs nothing to write, so it carries no information. A hiring manager reading a shortlist discounts it without noticing they have.
— Accreditation —
Anyone can claim AI skills.
Few can prove them.
A hiring manager reading forty applications has no way to separate five years of production work from a weekend course, because almost nothing on a CV can be checked. The Institute of AI, the UK's professional body for AI, issues credentials with a public verification page, so the claim stops being something they have to take on trust.
— What they actually see —
One page, and the
question is settled.
Every Accredited Member has a verification page. No login, no form, no request to you. This is the shape of what a hiring manager opens.
Verified by the Institute of AI
Public verification, no account required
- Standing
- Accredited Member
- Level
- Professional
- Post-nominal
- PIoAI
- Assessed against
- The IoAI competency framework
- CPD
- Logged and current
— Four kinds of claim —
Not all evidence
is worth the same.
Each of these appears on CVs every day, and each one answers a different question. Only the last one answers the question a hiring manager is actually asking.
A course certificate
Completed a twelve-hour introduction to AI, with a PDF to prove it.
Proves attendance
Evidence that you were present. It says nothing about the standard you reached, because nothing about it was assessed.
A vendor certification
Certified on a specific platform or toolchain.
Proves tool fluency
Genuinely useful, and genuinely narrow. It confirms you can operate one vendor product, which is not the same as practising well.
An accreditation
Assessed at Professional level by the UK professional body for AI.
Proves practice
Evidence-based assessment against a published framework, held at a named level, and checkable by anyone on a public verification page.
— The other side of the desk —
What an employer does
with your credential.
Worth knowing, because it tells you where the value sits. None of these four steps requires the employer to trust you, which is exactly why they work in your favour.
- 1Specify an accreditation level in the job advert, and the shortlist filters itself.
- 2Open the verification page, confirm the level and standing, and move on in seconds.
- 3Read the competency framework to know exactly what that level was assessed against.
- 4Ask the candidate to talk through the framework, because they were assessed on it.
— Common questions —
Proof, verification, and what it costs.
How does public verification work?+
Each Accredited Member has a verification page showing their level and standing. Anyone can open it, no account and no request to you, which is what turns your claim into something a hiring manager can confirm while reading your application.
Do employers already ask for this?+
Employers can specify an accreditation level in a job advert and verify it publicly, and the Institute of AI publishes guidance for doing so. The framework and the verification pages exist today, which is what makes specifying it practical.
What is actually assessed?+
Your practice, against the published competency framework, with evidence. That is the difference between this and a certificate of attendance, and it is why a level means the same thing whoever holds it.
What does it cost to get proof worth having?+
The assessment is £29.99, once, at any level, followed by a one-off accreditation fee for your level. If you are out of work and looking, the Institute of AI offers fully or partially funded accreditation pathways that cover some or all of both.
Give them something
they can check.
Get assessed against a published framework and carry a credential with a public verification page, so the strongest claim on your CV is also the only one they do not have to believe.
— Go deeper
— Careers
AI skills on your CV
How to write the credential down so it survives a six-second scan.
— Accreditation
The competency framework
Exactly what each level is assessed against, published and open to read.
— For employers
Hiring against the levels
How employers specify, shortlist and verify accreditation when they are hiring.