Professional Practice Interview

The Professional Practice Interview is the final stage of assessment if you are seeking to attain Chartered Membership. If you are progressing as a professionally qualified Architectural Technician, you do not attend an interview.

The Professional Practice Interview allows the Institute’s membership Assessors to assess your level of professional competence in Architectural Technology. Your technical competence is assessed via the POP Record. The Professional Practice Interview is based on the professional practice units of the Chartered Architectural Technologist POP Record. You will be expected to bring a portfolio of your work and evidence which clearly illustrates your involvement in the areas listed in units 15–17 of the POP Record (see below). For overseas members, the Interview is held via video conferencing on Skype.

Unit 15 Management of Meetings
15.1 Manage meetings
15.2 Make analytical contributions to meetings

Unit 16 Professional Relationships
16.1 Develop and maintain relationships with people who are affected by your work*
16.2 Present technical information and provide advice on technical problems*
16.3 Identify, summarise and analyse complex, indeterminate problems*
16.4 Contribute to the protection of individual and community interests*

Unit 17 Continual Professional Development
17.1 Identify, record and analyse personal development aims and progress*
17.2 Allocate and monitor the progress and quality of work in your area of responsibility*
17.3 Contribute to advances in occupational knowledge and practice*

*These units will be assessed against the Code of Conduct.

Members can download guidance notes for the interview:

  Professional Practice Interview guidance notes

Download a copy of the Careers and Membership Handbook:

  Careers and Membership Handbook