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Supervised experience, and who may sign for it
Time worked only counts if somebody qualified will attest to it. The requirement is not merely that you did the work; it is that a person the board recognises confirms what you did, for how long, and under what supervision.
Hone is a place to practise a career, one idea a day. This is one of its lessons, written out in full and free to read without an account.
In beta. This lesson was written for Hone and has not yet been checked by a qualified accountant. Practice material, not professional advice. What that means.
What it is for
It changes how you choose a job. Two roles can teach the same things and only one of them can be signed off, because of who supervises it. Finding that out at the end, when the signature is needed, is the single most costly discovery on this road -- the work was real and it cannot be counted.
How to think about it
Before accepting a role you intend to count, establish who would sign for it and whether they hold what the board requires. Then keep your own contemporaneous record of what you did, because you may be asking for that signature from somebody who has moved on.
Worked example
Work done under a qualified supervisorCountable, provided the supervisor is who the board requires.
The same work with nobody qualified to signGenuine experience. Not countable.
A supervisor who has left the firmStill able to sign, and much harder to reach. This is why you keep your own record.
Your own contemporaneous note of the workNot a substitute for the signature, and what makes obtaining it possible later.
Your turn
Name what experience needs besides having been done.
Experience counts only when a qualified person will for it
Solve one, graded on the server
The trap
Assuming a good job at a respected employer must count. The question is never the employer's reputation; it is whether the person who supervised your work holds what the board requires them to hold.