Your Professional Pulse
Whether you're taking your first steps in a finance career or you're looking to take the next big leap, we're here to support you at every stage of your professional journey.
The pace of change demands that professionals continuously upskill to remain effective, agile, and relevant. Lifelong learning shifts the focus from one-time certification to ongoing capability development throughout a career.
At CIPFA we believe that supporting our students and members towards self-directed learning builds a public sector workforce equipped to navigate disruption, adapt innovation, and lead transformation.
In an age of automation, those who learn, unlearn, and relearn will thrive. This CIPFA skills assessment tool is designed to support our members' lifelong learning journey, not just career development but individual purpose, confidence, and fulfilment.
Assess your competencies
Assess your capability for each of the competencies by considering your ability and the significance of each of the statements for success in your current role.
Set time aside
The skills analysis will take you approximately 20 minutes. If you can't finish it, you can save and return at a later time.
Using Professional Pulse
View a summary of your key strengths and areas of development mapped to CIPFA resources to support you in your career journey.
The Competencies
The following outlines the skills, behaviours, and technical competencies that make up your Professional Pulse. Please use the concertina sections to view more information about each area.
Simply click on a section title to expand and explore the details. You can click again to collapse it when you're done.
Self-assess
Your competencies now
The skills analysis will take approximately 20 minutes.