Graduation Supplement 2016

CEO address

Good afternoon and welcome to graduands, friends, family, tutors and other guests. We are here to celebrate and to support you graduands who have achieved a major milestone in your payroll/pension careers. Let us first all stand to give you a rapturous applause for your achievement. Learning is like a train journey – you have a destination in sight, a goal. Each different module was like stopping at another station and then onto the next until you reached that main goal and here you are. Knowledge is power and you are here today to celebrate your achievement and to join an exclusive group of true professionals who continue to play their part in raising the profile of our payroll and pensions professions. Along this journey, not only have you faced challenges but you will have experienced personal transformation and change. I say this as I bet you are not the same person now as you were when you commenced this journey. You are now equipped with a significant range of knowledge and skills and – guess what – your qualification shouts out that you can do exactly what it says on the tin and more. Your designatory letters demonstrate this qualification and professionalism to the world. Make sure you continue your membership with the CIPP in order to use these well-earned letters after your name. These letters not only demonstrate that you have achieved your qualification, but that you have access to the latest information and support relating to changes in the industry so truly are a payroll or pensions professional worth having on the team. Now that you have reached a major destination it may be your ultimate goal, but you may be already thinking about the next destination. For those of you who are already planning the next goal there are further steps you can choose to take in the form of the BA (Hons) top up to your Foundation Degree or the MSc in Business and Reward Management. This is your choice and your personal destination. There’s more. The exciting news is that at this very moment the CIPP has submitted its application to Privy Council for Individual Chartered Status. Your Foundation Degree, coupled with your continuing professional development forms part of the main application criteria so it is important to make sure you keep your membership up to date and keep those all- important letters, as you have earned them.

Ken Pullar FCIPP Chief executive, CIPP

“We are here to celebrate and to support you graduands

who have achieved a major

milestone in your payroll/

Whatever you do next, remember learning is a life-long journey both personally and professionally but where ever your journey takes you I want to wish you the very best of luck.

pension careers”

My final words to you are ‘don’t forget to complete your CPD’, and as Henry Ford said: “Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young”.

Enjoy your day and congratulations once again.

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The CIPP Graduation Ceremony 2016

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