You have applied for PMP and found out that your application has been
selected for an audit? What? You know what, I feel you. So do not panic let's
figure out what to do and how to pass it. What is up everyone, welcome to my
project management sandbox. My name is Kris I'm PMP certified and before I
got certified my application has passed an audit too, thus, basically I'm going to
share my personal experience and tips on how to approach the situation. And before
we dive in make sure to subscribe and let me know in comments right away if
you need to pass an audit too. Let's go! To begin with, when could you be audited?
Actually PMI reserves the right to pick your application for an audit either
before the exam or when you have already passed the PMP test. That is why it
is extremely important to make sure that you have completed the application
thoughtfully; that you have all the references on hand; that all your
reference people are informed that potentially they could be contacted in
future and they need to agree to confirm your professional experience for the
Project Management Institute. If you are selected for an audit before the exam you
usually know this right away. Well, at least in my experience as soon as I have
submitted my PMP application I saw this exciting notification on the screen
instantly - you have been chosen for an audit. Ha ha, yap! Basically what
does it mean that you have been selected for an audit?
This means that PMI is requesting you to confirm all the information that you
have provided in your application related to your education, professional
experience and professional education; sending them all
the supporting / confirming documentation. By the way let me know in comments if
you have already submitted your PMP application? When you know that you have
been selected for an audit the next step would be to carefully review all
the information that PMI sends you to your email. As always you can contact
PMI support as they usually are very much responsive and provide all the
necessary information in order to help you passing an audit. Well, in my personal
case and probably this would resonate with some of you too, before I have submitted
my PMP application the majority of my project management experience during my
career was earned while I was working remotely with international teams and
clients. This means that all of my references were located in different
cities and even in different countries. That promised me a really hard work ahead.
Usually there are three types of documents you need to provide for
the PMI and keep in mind that all the documentation should be gathered, packed
and sent physically to the headquarters of the Project Management Institute.
For those three types of documents which are education, professional education and
experience, what you are going to do is this. For education what you're going to
do is to make a copy of your diploma with all the transcripts. And by the way,
keep in mind if it is not in English you need to translate it. As for the
professional education, you are going to make a copy of the certificate that you
can received after you have completed your professional education and earned
those 35 hours. Here is where all the fun comes! To confirm your professional
experience you need to meet with your reference people in person and ask them
to complete the templates provided by the PMI where they are stating that they
confirm your professional experience on some project (the one you have included in your application).
Make sure this is done in a hardcopy, so they are going to sign those documents
by hand, pack them in the envelope, close and sign over it. If you have been
working remotely like I did, yes this is going to be a little bit harder.
But still this is not the end of the world. What you're going to do is to
pack the templates into envelopes and send to your reference people; ask them
to complete the documents and send them back to you by the regular mail. Of
course, this is going to take time and it is going to be longer than if you are
able to meet those people in person. However, you anyway need to do this in
order to pass an audit. What you also need to know is that if you are selected
for an audit before the exam you are not eligible to take the test before you
confirm you experience and all the information from your application; and
what is more, you're not even able to book the sit for the exam before the
audit is passed. Therefore, it is extremely important to do everything as
fast as possible and to do this accurately because, for instance, when you
have everything on hand, you need to pack it all together and
send it to PMI. And PMI doesn't accept partial parcels of the confirming
documentation. Thus, make sure that you're sending the information all together.
So, you have gathered the confirmation documents of your education; of your
professional education and of your professional experience. You have packed
all together, and you have sent it to the PMI. hurrah! All the hard work is done.
Now we need to receive the confirmation from the PMI that they have received
everything, and that they confirm the audit is passed. By the way I'm
going to put the link to the formal requirements for the audit in the
description to this video. Now let me know if this information was helpful.
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you next Wednesday!