PROGRESS AND RENEWAL
Creating a Great Self-Nomination
You’re certain that you’ve got the time, dedication, and personal attributes to be an effective participant in the governance of your professions. You qualify as a candidate, and you think you have a reasonable chance of being endorsed by the Nominating Committee. Sounds like you’re ready to prepare your self-nomination. On July 10, you can start the actual process of uploading your nomination materials to the Member Self-Service Centre of apega.ca. But you can start preparing now. Before your materials are accepted for publication and advancement to the Nominating Committee, APEGA will review them for professionalism and appropriateness. And now — get busy! WHEN NOMINATIONS OPEN The nominations site in the Member Self- Service Centre opens on July 10 at 9 a.m. Follow the step-by-step process. There’s a save-draft function. If you’ve already begun preparing your materials, that’s great. Regardless, you’ll need to: • read the materials on the site • fulfill all mandatory requirements • consider non-mandatory requirements and fulfill those you decide are important • work offline as necessary to get everything ready
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SELF-NOMINATION MANDATORY REQUIREMENTS 1 | Reach out to 25 Professional Members in good standing to support your nomination. Let them know that they’ll be contacted electronically to confirm their support. 2 | Find or have taken a print-quality photograph of yourself — a headshot. 3 | Write a personal statement that's 800 to 1,000 words long. Make sure it includes the information you think is important for voters to know about you. 4 | To help the Nominating Committee in its review, write an explanation of why you want to run for Council. 5 | Also for the Nominating Committee’s review, rate yourself on the provided skills and attributes from 1 to 7 (1 being lowest, 7 being highest). The list of skills and attributes will be available when the nomination site goes live on July 10. NON-MANDATORY REQUIREMENTS 1 | Polish your curriculum vitae for posting. 2 | Gather any other supporting documents you would like to submit and have available for voters to review. 3 | Have a video shot of you promoting yourself as a candidate, which we will also post. We recommend that you keep it short and to-the-point — up to two minutes long.
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